Francois Meloche has to start looking over his shoulder, as Benoit Larochelle Legrand just took down a huge pot to bring his stack up to the heights on Meloche had attained at the last break. Larochelle now rivals Meloche at the top of the leaderboard, and the two big stacks are playing at the same table.
Larochelle scored a big double up shortly before the last break to climb up the leader board, and by eliminating Karl Laliberte in a battle of the blinds he made another big addition to his stack.
Laliberte opened the pre-flop action from the small blind, and Larochelle defended. When the flop fell 
, Laliberte fired a big continuation-bet of 17,000. Larochelle immediately raised all in, and Laliberte snap called, triumphantly tabling 
. Larochelle quietly rolled over his 
, and the players watched the 
and 
roll off the deck. Larochelle’s aces-up stood, and Laliberte splashed his stacks across the table in frustration before making his exit.
Larochelle is now playing a stack of slightly more than 200,000 in chips.
