$150 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry
Returning to Level 15: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Players Remaining: 67 of 625
Average Stack: 93,000 (31 big blinds)

Event 25 was the last big field, multi-day open tournament on the schedule and it drew 625 entrants over two starting flights. Only 67 were able to make it through to the end of the night and they return this afternoon to play down to the champion.

The first order of business is getting them into the money. Only 36 of them will earn a piece of the $75,000 prize pool and they should get there in the early afternoon.

There are plenty of tough names still in the running including Eli Levy, three-time WSOP Circuit winner Nancy Birnbaum, and Seminole Hard Rock Tampa ambassador Wally Maddah.

They’ll get underway at the top of the hour and we’ll pick up the action as they near the money bubble.

Top ten returning counts:

Paul Tong – 366,300 (122 bb)
Julio Fernandez – 290,400 (97 bb)
Chein Chiu – 244,500 (82 bb)
Andrea Kaiser – 230,700 (77 bb)
Raminder Singh – 205,100 (68 bb)
John Cummings – 205,000 (68 bb)
Xiaoyan Wang – 199,000 (66 bb)
Vasile Schita – 179,900 (60 bb)
Dustin Tragethon – 170,000 (57 bb)
Hector Chevalier – 167,700 (56 bb)