$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 15: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante
Flight G Players Remaining: 108 of 748

Flight G players are back in their seats after a break and the entire remaining field is stationed in the meeting room at the last 12 tables. While technically not the last of their night, they will reach the money with 74 remaining before they have another.

Two-time SHRP champion Evan Teitelbaum is making a bid for end-of-flight chip leader and he’ll be tossing around his 340,000 stack until the bubble bursts.

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 100/200
Flight H Entries: 334

Three levels are gone in the final flight of the Ultimate Re-Entry event with more than 300 entries putting them less than 100 from making this a $1 million tournament. It’s been a great turnout and we expect to push the number climb throughout until we shut down registration at 11:45pm and add up the numbers.

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13: 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
Flight G Players Remaining: 153 of 748

Flight G players are back in their seats after the third break and registration officially closed on the penultimate flight of the Ultimate Re-Entry tournament. It drew a massive 748 entries to put the event on the cusp of a $1 million prize pool.

They will hit that mark when Flight H hits 402 entries and they are more than halfway there.

Flight G will continue to play until 74 players remain and those survivors will advance to tomorrow’s Day 2 already in the money.

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Flight G Entries: 737

They are running out the clock on registration in Flight G and Seminole Hard Rock Tampa poker ambassador Wally Maddah will have to take another shot later tonight. He already advanced a stack for tomorrow but tried to build a bigger one or collect a Multi-stack award for his second.

A middle position player opened to 3,800 and Maddah called from the cutoff to see the flop. He was faced with a 4,500 bet and moved all in for his 23,800 stack. Maddah’s opponent thought for a few seconds before calling to put him at risk.

Middle Position:
Maddah:

Maddah was ahead in the hand with his overpair to the board but had to dodge a lot of outs against the overcards and flush draw. He didn’t have to wait long to see his fate when the turn came . Maddah was drawing dead to the rail and he’ll hop on the 5pm flight for a fresh start.

After that hand, the levels went up and it’s the last chance to join Flight G.

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 25/50

The Ultimate Re-Entry event is already a success with the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool far in the rearview mirror and the tournament closing in on a $1,000,000 prize pool. There are more than 3,000 entries in the game already and it won’t take long for Flight H to reach the seven-digit mark.

The morning flight is still running with late registration open for another hour but we’ll see a big group of players joining this flight with a fresh start.

Players will start with 15,000 stacks and all opening flights run 30-minute levels on Day 1. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 13 at 11:45pm and we expect a lot of players to take their final shot. They are scheduled to play down until only 10% of the starting field remains and those survivors will return on Day 2 already in the money.

Tournament staff will kick things off at 5pm and we’ll track their progress to a $1 million prize pool.

• $500,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 15,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 13
• 10% of each flight’s field, rounded down, will advance to Day 2
• All Day 2 players will be in the money
• Players surviving more than one Day 1 flight will receive a $2,500 cash payout for each lesser multiple chip stack
• Ultimate Re-Entry Structure Sheet

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Flight G Entries: 716

It seems like the only thing that will slow down the entry count climb will be when registration closes in 90 minutes. They crossed the 700-entry mark but it might hit the brakes soon with the kick off of the final flight. As it stands, the Ultimate Re-Entry event is only 433 entries away from pushing the prize pool over $1,000,000 and that should happen early in the last flight.

It’s been a while since we found Abbey Daniels sitting at the table but she remembered about this big tournament, then made her way down for a seat in the meeting room. She is one of the more successful players we see in our events, male or female, and she is one good score from passing $700,000 in career earnings. She has a half-dozen tournament wins to credit but her biggest cash came from a WPT televised final table appearance in the 2011 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship.

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Flight G Entries: 693

Players returned from their second break and there seems to be no slowing down the pace of entries. They are knocking on the door for 700 with two hours remaining for late registration or re-entry.

Colby Covington is one of the more recent entrants with some nice results on and off the table. He plays a lot of poker in South Florida and his highest profile cash came with a deep run in the 2016 WPTDeepStacks Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event.

But most will know him from his work as a mixed martial artist. The professional MMA fighter has run up a 15-2 record and sats at #3 on the UFC welterweight rankings. Covington can’t use those skills at the poker table but he might cause someone to think twice about running a bluff.

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Level 8: 400/800 with a 75 ante
Flight G Entries: 663

Shortly before the second break of the day, Loni Harwood found a spot to get her short stack in the middle with a race to double. She was called by Bill Farnan but needed to catch to save this bullet.

Harwood:
Farnan:

Farnan’s tens were ahead before they slammed the door on the flop. The rest of the table yelled about the quads and Harwood went on break a few minutes earlier than the rest.

Bill Farnan: 26,000 (33 bb)

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 400/800 with a 75 ante
Flight G Entries: 641

The steady parade of entries has continued since the start of the flight; they surpassed 600 well before the second break and it will jump past 650 before it hits.

We found Loni Harwood and Stewart Newman making their first appearance of the series and both drew the same table. The Seminole Hard Rock Poker team members present a tough problem for the rest of the table but they’re all having fun at the moment.

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
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Level 6: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Flight G Entries: 589

There was a three-way all-in at Neil Blumenfield’s table and they had the chips in quickly. A late position short-stacked player opened, the small blind shoved for 12,300 and Blumenfield moved all in from the big blind for 12,000.

The opener wasted no time putting his 6,400 in the middle for the snappy big hand.

Small Blind:
Blumenfield:
Late Position:

Blumenfield was ahead with the queens and took a bigger lead on the flop with no one holding a spade. The turn had the small blind drawing dead but the short stack picked up a gutshot draw. The river changed nothing to send Blumenfield up to 31,000 while knocking one player out and the other down.