01-31-2009 13:39 UTC+8

Last Year's Champ is Out

[user75032]

David Saab won the 2008 Asian Poker Tour Philippines Main Event and started Day 2 of the 2009 version fourth in chips. It was all downhill for Saab, however, almost from the word, "Go." Cicurel Didier opened from the cutoff with a standard raise. Saab, sitting in the big blind, had only 5,700 chips left in his stack. He put them in and was drawing to two live cards with {K-Spades}

{K-Spades}

{5-Diamonds}

against Didier's {A-Clubs}

{A-Clubs}

{4-Diamonds}

. It was Didier who paired up on the flop, {Q-Hearts}

{Q-Hearts}

{A-Hearts}

{9-Clubs}

. The turn {J-Spades}

{J-Spades}

left Saab with a gutshot to stave off elimination, but the river blanked {3-Diamonds}

{3-Diamonds}

.

The room gave Saab a round of applause after his elimination was announced by TD Matt Savage.

Tags: Cicurel Didier David Saab