Blake Napierala is the first player to hit the century mark after eliminating Matt Parry moments ago. Napierala opened to 3,000 from the cutoff and received a call from the player on the button. Action folded to Parry and he shoved for around 30,000 from the big blind. Napierala reshoved and the other player released.
Parry:
Napierala:
The board ran out an uneventful to remove Parry from the tournament and vault Napierala into the chip lead.
Every time we walk by Ray Book he's all in. This time he shoved his last 13,900 from early position with the and Jack Vaccarello called from the small blind with the . The board ran out and Book secured the double.
Ray Book and Paul Butski were eliminated in the final seconds of Level 8 and and both raced to the cage to re-enter. That brings the total entrants for today's flight to 79.
"I wanted to fire five bullets today. This is only my second."
After losing his first bullet to a flush draw at Table 8, Ray Book re-entered and is ready to mix it up at his new table with Blake Napierala and Rick Block. Book told his tablemates he was going to shove blind on the first hand, and after a player limped the cutoff, Book stuck to his promise and shoved his new 15,000 stack in the middle without looking. Napierala was in the big blind and squeezed his cards, thought for a moment and mucked, and the limper folded behind.
Book flipped over the and the . Napierala looked relieved and said he folded .
We might see more of this with only five minutes left to re-enter in this flight.