Championship: Mike Ahmad – 8th Place ($11,150)

$1,700 TPC Championship
Prize Pool: $450,000  |  Structure  |  Payouts
Level 24:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  7 of 300

Mike Ahmad

Action folded around to Thien Nguyen and he moved all in against the short-stacked Mike Ahmad.

“I haven’t looked yet,” Ahmad said. “Want to sweat it?”

Ahmad peeled the first card, the both nodded, and he called at risk for 870,000 when he saw the second.

Nguyen: 5h5c
Ahmad: KsQh

It was a race and Ahmad needed to improve to double up. But the board ran out Th8s3hTc2s and he was eliminated in eighth place.

Thien Nguyen – 4,600,000 (92 bb)
Mike Ahmad  –  Eliminated in 8th Place ($11,150)