Facing a 40,000-chip bet from Eric Afriat with close to 100,000 in the middle on an board, Ari Engel fired back with a check-raise to 95,000.
Afriat called, but when the river was revealed and Engel fired out 115,000, he folded, allowing Engel to push back over 500,000 again and turn things around, coming back from his earlier troubles
TABLE 30
Seat 1. Samuel Tsehai
Seat 2. Kevin Singh
Seat 3. Gary Lucci
Seat 4. Rene Bourbeau
Seat 5. Kevin MacDonald
Seat 6. Luc Greenwood
Seat 7. Lu Zhang
Seat 8. Robert Logan Dunn
Seat 9. Sheraz Nasir
TABLE 31
Seat 1. John Krpan
Seat 2. Robert Taylor
Seat 3. Glenn Hammers
Seat 4. Eric Afriat
Seat 5. Yves Loiselle
Seat 6. Levi Stevens
Seat 7. Edmund Campion
Seat 8. Will Molson
Seat 9. Ari Engel
Lu Zhang is firmly in the lead now after knocking out Canadian Griffin Benger moments ago.
She called a flop lead from Benger on a board, then snapped when he shoved the turn.
Benger held and needed a spade or a ten against Zhang's turned two pair. The river wasn't either and as he hit the rail, Zhang got some separation from the log jam at the top of the counts.
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.
A suddenly short Ivan Mamuzic shipped it in with and ran smack into Jeff Gross' pocket aces.
Aces held to send Mamuzic to the cage and Gross, who made third at WPT Montreal and second at the partypoker Premier League VII right here at Playground in 2013, is starting to look like a contender again.
Gary Lucci took most of Nicholas Palma's chips in a big hand where he flopped trips with and then turned a boat.
Palma, who grabbed the chip lead early yesterday when he took a whole whack off start-of-Day 2 leader Mike Leah, didn't show, then busted his short stack a few hands later.
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board, Ari Engel fired back with a check-raise to 95,000.
river was revealed and Engel fired out 115,000, he folded, allowing Engel to push back over 500,000 again and turn things around, coming back from his earlier troubles
board, then snapped when he shoved the 
turn.
and needed a spade or a ten against Zhang's 
turned two pair. The 
river wasn't either and as he hit the rail, Zhang got some separation from the log jam at the top of the counts.
flop. Engel called, but when Zhang bet the 
, having flopped a set.
. 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.
and ran smack into Jeff Gross' pocket aces.
and then turned a boat.