Danick Landriault has been steadily building his stack throughout the flight, passing the chip-leader torch back and forth with other big stack Daniel Le. He recently won a pot that saw him regain the title of chip-leader, placing him near 300K after 16 levels of play.
We missed the action preflop, but Danick was involved in a pot from middle position against the two players in the blinds. With 
showing on the board, both blinds checked to Danick, who fired 13,500. The player in the small blind mucked his hand, while the big blind check-raised to 30,000. Danick obliged, and the two players tangoed to the turn – a 
. First to act, the player in the big blind announced all-in, forcing Danick into the tank. He asked for a chip count, and then separated the 73,600 bet from his stack before finally making the call, leaving him with around 50,000 behind.
Danick tabled 
and was ahead of his opponents drawing 
, however he had a lot of cards to dodge on the river – 18 to be precise. The river brought the 
, and Danick won the nearly 250,000 pot with the pair of 8s to place him at the top of this flights leaderboard at the moment.