Right after the players made a deal, play loosened up and we started to see a lot more flops. A 3-way all in developed when Alam shoved his 248K stack and both Matthew Willard and Normand Plessis-Belair also went all-in. Alam had , Matthew opened up , and Normand had . As fortune would have it, the runout was , and, Alam tripled up his stack while Matthew was eliminated in 4th place.
A few orbits later, the tables turned, as Alam got it in with and was called by Jonathan English who had , Alam couldn’t find any help with the board. He was crippled as most of his chips shifted to Jonathan. A few hands later he busted out in 3rd.