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 against Didier's . It was Didier who paired up on the flop, . The turn left Saab with a gutshot to stave off elimination, but the river blanked .
The room gave Saab a round of applause after his elimination was announced by TD Matt Savage.