$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship (Re-Entry)
Level 4: 100/200 with a 25 Ante
Entries: 820

The entry count kicked back into gear and crossed over 800 in the third hour, clearly passing $2.5 million in the prize pool and steadily climbing.

Blair Hinkle knows a little something about getting through huge fields like this. He earned his first WSOP bracelet in 2008 by besting a field of 1,344 players, a nice score but not his biggest.

Hinkle followed that up by conquering the first $10 Million GTD Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open in 2013 with better than a thousand more players than his WSOP win. He earned more than $1.7 million from a prize pool that almost reached $12 million.