On a board reading on the turn, Emad Tahtouh called a 2,000 bet from Jan-Willem Kamps. The river was the . Kamps moved all in and Tahtouh called. Tahtouh turned up pocket aces, but Kamps had flopped a set with . Tahtouh was left with only 400 in chips after the hand.
Tahtouh managed to avoid elimination on the next hand, when he pushed in with Q-3 against his opponent's pocket jacks. Tahtouh flopped a three and rivered a jack to take down the pot with two pair and double up to 800.