Scott Blackman is the next player to be eliminated. He was short-stacked and all in with against Jake Abdalla's . The player in the big blind, who was last to act in the hand, open-mucked the other two eights, . But that was no problem for Abdalla; his eights held against Blackman's hand on board of to secure the knockout.
Blackman goes home as the 154th-place finisher in the 2009 Main Event.