Amazing Race: Tiffany Michelle, Maria Ho Finish Second at Atlantis Dubai

Poker players Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho posted their highest finish to date in the CBS reality series “Amazing Race.” The duo arrived at the Pit Stop in second place at the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Dating couple Meghan and Cheyne set out on the leg in first place, leaving at 8:17am, well ahead of the other teams as a result of completing the Fast Forward last week. Their clue instructed them to grab a briefcase and travel to the Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club, where they had to search the marina’s boardwalk for their next clue. There, teams encountered the leg’s Roadblock, a task that only one person can perform. In it, racers had to row inflatable boats to a yacht anchored offshore and find a sheik, who would present them with a watch. Then, they had to return to the dock and unlock their briefcase by cracking a three-digit code.

What teams had to discern for themselves was that the time frozen on the watch, 8:35, represented the three-digit code to their briefcase. Michelle and Ho departed in sixth place out of seven teams remaining at 11:47am and did not appear on “Amazing Race” until 15 minutes into the show. Ho told Michelle at the Roadblock, “It might be physical. You’re faster.” Tiffany powered out to the parked boat and back, telling “Amazing Race” cameras, “Every time I accomplish something all of the other guys did, it’s definitely very rewarding.” Ho and Michelle are the only all-female team this season.

Michelle figured out the code to the briefcase easily and lapped Flight Time and Big Easy, members of the Harlem Globetrotters, who struggled with the lock after leaving the Pit Stop in third place. The next clue prompted teams to head to the Abra water taxi station, where the leg’s Detour awaited. The Detour, which is a choice between two tasks, asked teams to complete Gold or Glass. In Gold, teams had to find a jewelry store and use a precision scale to weigh out $500,000 worth of the commodity. The exchange rate to use changed every minute, making the task complicated. In Glass, teams had to visit to a local spice market and assemble a dozen hookahs.

Ho and Michelle elected to put their thinking caps on and complete Gold, with the latter noting, “Maria and I know how handle money, so this should be good for us.” Brothers Sam and Dan, who had been in a loose alliance with the poker pros, also elected to do Gold and told “Amazing Race” cameras that they purchased a $2 calculator at Wal-Mart before leaving to film the show. Ho and Michelle borrowed the device and shouted out the correct weight in gold to put on the scale before the exchange rate changed. The quartet appeared to breeze through the task as a result of using teamwork, while racers performing Glass struggled with the intricacies of the hookahs.

The next clue instructed teams to head to the Atlantis water park, similar to its sister site in the Bahamas that plays host to the annual PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, and look for the Leap of Faith, a six-story speed slide that takes riders through a shark tank. At the bottom, teams were told to look for Dolphin Bay Beach, the Pit Stop for this leg of the race. Ho and Michelle quickly completed the task and checked in second, their highest finish so far. Sam and Dan arrived right behind them. Upon seeing the siblings run down the beach in their swimsuits, Michelle commented, “Sam and Dan had a ‘Baywatch’ moment today. They were looking kind of cute in their matching red shorts.”

Meanwhile, at the top of the slide, Mika and Canaan raged war over Mika’s fear of heights. In the end, she could not bring herself to complete the task, walked down the steps to the bottom, and the Globetrotters checked in sixth. Mika and Canaan were eliminated and the former commented, “I feel like I let [Canaan] down.”

Next week, the six teams remaining in the hunt for the $1 million first place prize head to the Netherlands. “Amazing Race” airs at 8:00pm ET on Sundays on CBS.

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