Jean-Francois Bouchard has been amongst the big stacks for most of this Day 1a, and although he recently lost a few chips, he just took a huge pot of table-mate Jeffrey Cormier to regain a spot atop the leaderboard.
Apart from a preflop raise, action was rather quiet until the turn, with a board showing 
. This is where things blew up, as we saw a raising war between the two players which finished when both of their stacks were in the middle. Jeffrey opened up 
for two-pair, but was drawing dead to Jean-Francois and his set of 
. To add insult to injury, the river brought the 
, filling up both players.
With that pot, Jean-Francois jumped up to over 125,000, which is likely one of the biggest stacks in the room.
Jean-Francois Bouchard
