We can across a hand that made Paul Hamamji a small fortune. He open-raised to 11K from an early position. That bet was called by Roger Lamia, and then re-raised to 35K by Maxime Laberge. Hamamji went on to place a 4-bet to 80K. When Lamia went out of the way, Laberge went all-in, and was quickly called by Hamamji, for an effective 165K.
Paul Hamamji: 
Maxime Laberge: 
Board: 
Paul Hamamji successfully dodged Maxime Laberge’s 7 outs to shoot to the top of the leaderboard. He is now definitely top 3 with about 350K, possibly our chip leader. Maxime Laberge was left with just a few chips, and lost them a few hands later when his 
fell to Christophe Dissegna’s 
.
We are now 7 eliminations away from the money. Stay tuned!
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