$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Level 15: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 387 of 4,756
Eight starting flights have come for the Ultimate Re-Entry event and eight are gone to fill up the field. The $360 buy-in tournament drew 4,756 entries to blast past its $500,000 Guarantee to create a prize pool worth more than $1.4 million.
Only 387 of them are still around with a chance for the title but they are in the money with some players already putting big money in their pockets. The Ultimate Re-Entry format allowed players to enter as many flights as they wished and they could pick up a $2,500 multi-stack payout for advancing more than one stack to Day 2. They were paid for the smaller stack(s) while the biggest one goes into play.
All told, 84 multi-stacks were paid out with several players doing it more than once. Last year we saw Gregory Marcus advance four stacks in eight flights and thought that was impressive. Until this year.
WSOP Circuit winner Zack Milchman one-upped Marcus by cashing an incredible five times in eight flights to lock up $10,000 before starting Day 2, better than tenth place money. Milchman will return to play his biggest stack and 235,000 should give him room to make moves.
Casey Carroll leads the way at the restart after finishing Flight B with 556,000. That number held up though the rest of the starting flights though WPT champ Tony Ruberto is only one yellow chip behind at 555,000.
They’ll return with 2 minutes and 19 seconds remaining in Level 15 after which they’ll switch to 60-minute levels for the rest of the day. Cards fly at 2pm and we’ll be here until the end.