No one likes it when another player takes all of thier chips and knocks them out of the tournament and some players tend to express this quite vocally while some keep their cool. Well Hevad Rain Khan was one of the players that kept his cool after he got up from his seat at the No Limit Texas Hold'em World Championship held at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

He is known in poker for being a very animated poker player on the World Series of Poker circuit. He has put a chair on his head, played invisible basketball and ran around screaming after he won a sizeable pot but last weekend he didn't do anything of the sort.

He just walked away as all of his remaining chips were passed on to Tiffany Michelle. “I actually had the best pair when I beat him,” she said. “It was very surreal. I believe this is the start of something special. It is just the beginning.”

Female poker players are still trying to take the Main Event at the World Series of Poker. But while we haven't quite managed first place we still have made waves. Tiffany ended up finishing in 17th place and earned $334,534 dollars, this amount was the highest total that was ever won by a woman in the Main Event.

Previous waves were made by Annie Duke when she finished in 10th place in 2000 when she won $52,160 dollars and another was created by Barbara Enright who took fifth place and $140,180 dollars in 1995. “There is a lot of pressure and weight put on now that I won,” Michelle said. “Women have a huge advantage playing poker. It is fun to beat up on the boys.”

Tiffany Michelle started playing four years ago when she was part of the growing contingent of media outlets that were covering the World Series of Poker. “It was very strange to be sitting on the other side of the fence,” said Michelle, an aspiring actress who covered poker’s premiere event as a media representative for several outlets. “Many of them underestimated me and didn’t know what to expect.”

While she may have started playing poker only four years ago she started playing cards when she was a kid at home. “I grew up playing cards since a child,” she said. “I was always a gamey person.”

- 2008-07-21