$350 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Level 16: 4,000/8,000/1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 56/575
Average Stack: 151,000 (19 bb)

The field was stuck on 59 players for about 20 minutes before a flurry of elimination left the us with 56 Day 1E survivors.

Jesse Hollander got the ball rolling in a four-handed pot as a short-stacked player was all in preflop for 10,000. The flop fell and Charlemagne Benjamin checked from the small blind. Jesse Hollander shoved from the big blind for about 50,000 and chased out Herbert Woodbury and Benjamin.

Hollander tabled , leading his opponent’s . The turn and river completed the board, locking up the pot for Hollander with a pair of sixes.

Just as play reached hand-for-hand, action at another table saw Richard Whitebrook score a huge elimination which also bagged him the chip lead with 636,000.

Following a flop of , a flury of action between Whitebrook and his opponent led to a player all in for about 170,000 with against Whitebrook’s . The turn and river were no help to the all-in player, giving Whitebrook the pot with a set of deuces and sending the field into the money.

The players are bagging chips now and we’ll have full chip counts from all five flights combined when it is available.