$800 Platinum Stack No-Limit Hold’em
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 19: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Flight G Players Remaining: 82 of 661
When the field got down to the final 84 players, the tournament staff announced that dealers should finish the hands in progress and then stop for hand-for-hand play on the Money Bubble.
One of those hands in progress saw a flop of 
. Phil Rigby checked from the big blind, Tamer Salama bet 50,000 from late position, and Rigby check-raised all in for about 200,000.
Salama called with 
for a diamond flush draw, and Rigby turned over 
for a pair of kings. Rigby needed his hand to hold to stay alive.
The turn card was the 
, the river card was the 
, and Salama won the pot with his queen-high diamond flush to eliminate Rigby on the Money Bubble.
Tamer Salama – 880,000 (29 bb)
Phil Rigby – Eliminated
Rigby was one of two eliminations as the Money Bubble was about to begin, so with 82 players remaining, there is no need for hand-for-hand play.
Stay tuned for a recap from this flight.
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