$350 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Level 13: 1,500/3,000/500 Ante

Registration closed for Flight A and they hit a nice, even, clean 500 entrants a minute before they returned.

That puts $150,000 towards the $500,000 Guarantee with seven more flights to go. We’re going to have a very big number when all the accounting is done.

Chad Freedman was the third break chip leader with 250,000 and was joined by local regular Steven Bennett as the only other player over 200,000. Freedman didn’t wait around and milk that stack, he pushed it over 350,000 while we were snapping his picture.

$350 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
End of Level 12: 1,000/2,000/300 Ante

Flight A players on the third break of the day and registration will close when they get back underway. The clock currently shows 498 entrants to leave us very close to a nice round number.

Tournament staff are coloring off the black chips and we’ll see who is leading among the approximately 100 players remaining.

$350 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Level 2: 50/100

We’ve had more than a few WSOP bracelet winners in action today and our latest is a transplant from the frigid Northeast.

Jason Young was a regular grinder in the Atlantic City poker rooms but moved south for family and warmer climates. He’s earned more than $766,000 in a career that includes a WSOP Shootout bracelet in 2008.

$350 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Level 12: 1,000/2,000/300 Ante

Flight A has entered Level 12 and the last chance to register for this flight or bust and re-enter. The previously mentioned Loni Harwood is one of those firing off again in Flight A with a short stack trying to bag up for Day 2.

The count is just five entrants away from 500 with less than 120 of them remaining. They’ll continue to play until approximately 50 players are left in Flight A.

$350 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Level 1: 25/50

The second flight of the Ultimate Re-Entry tournament is underway in the ballroom while registration is still open for the first session. Flight A won’t close down until 5:45pm so players can get in short but deep in play for A or deep stacked in the later flight.

Flight A has 490 entrants for a great start and we expect the numbers to steadily move towards the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool, then blast right past it.

Players begin with 15,000 stacks and 30-minute levels throughout the opening flights. Late registration is open until the start of Level 13 around 11:45pm and players can re-enter any time during that period of they go bust.

The Ultimate Re-Entry format allows players to bag multiple flights for Day 2. Players surviving more than one Day 1 flight will receive a $2,500 cash payout for the lesser multiple chip stack. The lesser stack will also be pulled out of play.

Flight B will continue until 10% of the starting field remains and everyone who bag for Day 2 are in the money.

$350 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Level 11: 800/1,600/200 Ante

We’re beginning to see more big names get in the game as the blinds climb including top pros David Jackson and Stewart Paterson along with Loni Harwood looking to follow up a 2015 campaign that saw her continue to build her reputation.

Harwood’s second career cash was a WSOP Circuit victory in 2012 then followed that up with a Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown title a month later and a second WSOP-C ring. Her break out year came in the summer of 2013; hitting the World Series of Poker and taking it by storm with six cashes, three final tables, and her first WSOP bracelet.

Harwood picked up her second bracelet this past July when she won the WSOP National Championship at a final table that featured Daniel Negreanu and hometown hero Darryll Fish.

$350 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Level 10: 600/1,200/200 Ante

Flight A is flirting with another milestone, though it will be a race to catch. The entrant count is up to 480 in Level 10 and 500 total is not out of the question when registration closes at 5:45pm.

Martin Carnero is a hidden member of the field with his hoodie pulled down tight. He would be happy to duplicate his run from the last major tournament run here, Carnero finished fourth in the Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” Championship a little over a month ago for $166,682.

He’s looking good on his first bullet with 65,000 but a still long way to go.

$350 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Level 9: 500/1,000/100 Ante

Raquel Abut took a nice piece of Levi Maloney’s stack after the first break and worked it up to a chip leading stack. The Miami-resident leads Flight A with four more levels left to register, her 115,000 eclipsing the other six-digit stack in the room. Gregg Fund continues to be a top stack with 106,000 and the field plays tighter than expected.

The count moved over 450 entrants during the break but it should slow down as the next starting flight time nears.

$350 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
End of Level 8: 400/800/75 Ante

Flight A players are on the second break of the day and getting closer to 450 entrants. We’ll take another look around the tournament area during the color up break for our next set of leaders.

$350 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Level 8: 400/800/75 Ante

The entrant count continues to climb while more familiar faces get in the game as the afternoon wears on. Joe Gale is a regular in the ballroom for our major events and he’s back once again.

Gale has only four recorded tournament cashes, all of them in 2015, but they are nice runs and each coming on Seminole Hard Rock Poker properties. Two of them to be exact.

Two of Gale’s results finished at final tables with his big payout coming with a win in the big-field Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Event 5 for $35,000. His other three cashes all came at Seminole Coconut Creek including a ninth place finish in the Coco Poker Open Deepstack Bounty.