Hevad Khan Poker
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This is a discussion on Hevad Kahn.01.02 Omaha H/L within the online poker forums, in the General Poker section; So I do a search for 'Team Poker Stars' players and Hevad is playing 1 table. Another one of the relatively new faces in poker is Hevad Khan. Born in New York in 1985, Khan has already built up a respectable tournament resume, won over $2.5 million in tournament earnings.
Hevad Khan is famous for his final table run in the 2007 WSOP Main Event. He charmed the TV cameras with his crazy celebrations and outgoing personality and survived a very memorable all-in situation with QQ against AA (video below). He started his poker career mass-multitabling sit & go’s. Khan went on to finish sixth for $956,243 and earned himself a ton of fame once the broadcast aired. Hevad continued to have success with numerous cashes throughout the year and into 2008. In March of 2008, he took down a preliminary event at the Foxwoods Poker Classic for over $100,000. Hevad Khan (born 1985 in Poughkeepsie, New York) is a member of Team PokerStars. Khan made the final table at the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event, finishing in sixth place. Khan began on the competitive Starcraft Broodwar at the age of 13. Other StarCraft professionals include fellow Team.
Hevad Khan is not the same Khan we met in 2007 and that's just fine with him. In fact, Khan is not the same Khan we knew this time yesterday. The difference: Khan is a million bucks richer today.
Last night, Team PokerStars Pro Hevad 'RaiNKhaN' Khan took down the 2008 Caesars Palace Classic for the $1 million first prize.
This is Khan's biggest single win to date and pushes him over the $2.5 million mark in live tournament winnings (to say nothing of the piles of cash he has made online at PokerStars).
Ten months ago, we walked through the cavernous Atlantis Resort and Casino with Hevad Khan on the way the opening party for the 2008 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. He stood tall above us and if we hadn't known it wasn't true, we would've insisted he'd had a lobotomy. He was calm, cool, collected and nothing like the dancing primate we'd known at the World Series of Poker. Something in the big man had changed and the ten-minute conversation was proof he was on his way to something far more sublime than a televised bulldozer dance.
After winning nearly a million bucks at the World Series, a switch flipped in Khan's head. He told us he had high hopes for 2008. In March, he won more than $100,000 in a side event at the Foxwoods Poker Classic. He won the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up for the same amount in the same month. Two hunded grand in the first three months of the year would be enough to keep some people in high cotton for the next ten months. Khan wasn't satisfied.
The ensuing months were not as kind. His 2008 World Series did not go to plan. His success in March seemed pale in comparison to the chilly months of cards he endured. Two things snapped him out of it. First, was a trip to Korea.
“I discovered myself there,” Khan said. “I came back a different person.”
Second, he had a killer weekend online in which he won nearly $100,000 in a couple of days, including a $58,000 second place finish in the Sunday Warm-Up. Khan was back.
By mid-year, Khan had won in the neighborhood of half a million bucks, but was looking for that elusive firtst place finish in a $10,000 event. He finally got it last night after beating out more than 300 players for the Caesars Place Classic title. The change in Khan's demeanor was not lost on the official tournament reports who noted, he is now 'considerably more subtle. He rarely celebrates winning hands or leaves his seat during play.'
Congrats, Hevad, on another great finish.
- Event 1 - Event 2
- Event 3 - Event 4
- Event 5 - Event 6
- Event 7 - Event 8
- Event 9 - Event 10
- Event 11 - Event 12
- Event 13 - Event 14
- Event 15 - Event 16
- Event 17 - Event 18
- Event 19 - Event 20
- Event 21 - Event 22
- Event 23 - Event 24
- Event 25 - Event 26
- Event 27 - Event 28
- Event 29 - Event 30
- Event 31 - Event 32
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| Hevad Khan | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | RaiNKhAN |
| Residence | Poughkeepsie, New York |
| World Series of Poker | |
| Bracelet(s) | None |
| Final table(s) | 1 |
| Money finish(es) | 7 |
| Highest ITM Main Event finish | 6th, 2007 |
| World Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | None |
| Final table(s) | None |
| Money finish(es) | 3 |
| European Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | None |
| Final table(s) | None |
| Money finish(es) | 1 |
| Information accurate as of 12 September 2010. | |
Hevad Khan (born January 25, 1985) is an American professional poker player, best known for making the final table at the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event, where he finished in sixth place.[1]
Hevad Khan Poker Table
Competitive Gaming[edit]
Khan began on the competitive StarCraft: Brood War at the age of 13. Other StarCraft professionals include fellow Team PokerStars member Bertrand Grospellier.[1] Khan is also known within the Marvel vs Capcom 2 community.[2][3]
Poker[edit]
Khan's nickname 'RaiNKhaN' was adapted, along with his last name, from the Mortal Kombatcharacter 'Rain,' who serves as an assassin for Shao Kahn in the series.[1] Khan dropped out from SUNY Albany in order to concentrate on playing poker professionally. Khan is known to multi-table many online tournaments, so much so that he had a friend of his film him for a YouTube video in which he played 26 sit-and-go tournaments simultaneously on a single computer monitor to prove that he wasn't a Pokerbot.[4] On March 23, 2008, Khan won the PokerStars Sunday Warm-up, a weekly $215 buy-in tournament in which he outlasted a field of 2,504 players in more than 9 hours of play earning $97,856. [5]
At the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event Khan finished in sixth place earning $956,243.[1] He also finished in the money during two other WSOP events. For the 2008 World Series of Poker a new rule was in effect, known as the 'Hevad Khan Rule'. The rule, which disallows boisterous celebrations from any player, was drafted as a response to the perceived over-the-top actions Khan employed during the 2007 Series when he won a hand.[6]
At the 2008 Foxwoods Poker Classic, Khan won the $1,850 No Limit Hold'em event, earning $108,187, after defeating 2006 World Series of Poker third place finalist Michael Binger during heads-up play. At the 2008 Caesars Palace Classic, Khan won the $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Championship event, earning the $1,000,000 first place prize, his largest win to date.[7][8] As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,500,000.[9] His seven cashes at the WSOP account for $1,046,701 of those winnings.[10]
Notes[edit]
- ^ abcdMihoces, Gary (July 18, 2007). 'College dropout Khan cashes in, proves doubters wrong'. USATODAY.com. Retrieved April 6, 2008.
- ^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGCil3Lq8Vk
- ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on January 2, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^'Hevad Khan'. pokerlistings.com. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^Crowson, Arthur (March 26, 2008). 'PokerStars Sunday Warm-up gets RaiN'ed out'. pokerlistings.com. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^Lee, Bernard (February 17, 2009). 'Khan quietly celebrating his success'. ESPN. Retrieved March 31, 2009.
- ^Lucchesi, Ryan. 'Hevad Khan Wins the Caesars Palace Classic'. CardPlayer.com. Retrieved November 1, 2008.
- ^Butt, Robert. '$ 9,800 No Limit Hold'em - Championship Event'. TheHendonMob.com. Retrieved November 1, 2008.
- ^Butt, Robert. 'Hevad Khan - Stats'. The Hendon Mob. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^World Series of Poker EarningsArchived April 15, 2012, at WebCite, worldseriesofpoker.com
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