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Bodog poker pro Jean-Robert Bellande is sitting on a much healthier chip stack after sending Howard Lederer home. (Bodog Beat Image)

Bodog poker pro Jean-Robert Bellande keeps making moves up the leaderboard here during Day 2B of the 2008 WSOP Main and one of those moves was to eliminate poker pro Howard "The Professor" Lederer.

Here is the write-up from PokerNews.com:

Jean-Robert Bellande raised to 2,000 and Howard Lederer reraised to 7,700.

"I don't think you'd make the same move twice," commented Bellande.

Bellande then moved all in and Lederer snap-called with . Bellande had .

The board ran out and that was the end of the line for Lederer.

Bellande mentioned something about wanting to celebrate the fact that his hand held up in a race situation, but went on to say he respects Howard Lederer and wouldn't do that to such a well-respected player.

After that hand, Bellande is now up to about 70,000 in chips and the big stack at his table. Stay tuned for more live updates and WSOP news from the 2008 WSOP.