Engel's Lead Evaporates
Level 19
: 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante
Lu Zhang got it in with top-pair top-kicker against an Ari Engel flush draw, fading all his outs to double up once.
A few hands later they were in a battle of the blinds and Zhang was seen leading out on a flop. Engel called, but when Zhang bet the turn, making it 63,000, Engel shoved.
Zhang made the call for her tournament life and a massive pot with , having flopped a set.
Once again, Engel was on the flush draw, showing . The river came the and Zhang's at the top of the counts now as Engel's stack falls to just a small percentage of what it once was.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Lu Zhang |
850,000
735,500
|
735,500 |
Ari Engel |
320,000
-694,000
|
-694,000 |