Rami Hammoud was eliminated in 18th place, falling in a two-part process.
On the first hand, he looked up Samuel Louis Gagnon’s second open-shove in a row. Rami tabled 
and failed to improve versus the 
of his opponent. With under 25K left after the hand, Rami took advantage of an unopened pot to move in from the cutoff, and was looked up by chip-leader Daune Fernandez. Rami tabled 
and was outmatched by the 
of Daune.
Moments later Samuel Ka-Fai Ngai open-shoved his final 49K from middle position, finding isolation from Mounzer Awada. Samuel’s 
was bested by 
, bringing the field down to 16 runners.
Hand-for-hand play is now underway as we are one elimination from in-the-money.
