Bang the Drum Slowly

The seat that formerly belonged to Jeff Banghart is now occupied by someone other than him, and Ari Engel has close to 80,000 chips in front of him at the other end of the table. Putting two and two together, we asked Engel what happened, and he was kind enough to fill us in.

Banghart was the preflop raiser from late position, and Engel defended his big blind to go heads up to a {K-} {6-} {6-} flop. Engel check-called a bet, and he check-called another on when a {10-} hit fourth street. The river was a {J-} , and Engel checked one last time. Banghart bet 7,500 before Engel check-shoved all in for Banghart's effective ~33,000 remaining chips. The call came, and Engel turned up {10-} {10-} for tens full.