$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 17: 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 72 of 675

With 72 players remaining, Flight E is just five eliminations away from the money as they go on their break. As soon as they reach the final 68, they will begin hand-for-hand play on the Money Bubble, which is also the end-of-day bubble.

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight F Entries: 332

A scan of the field during the first break turned up 11 players with at least 45K in chips, and three with at least 50K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Chuck Polania  –  68,500  (228 bb)
2.  Sheldon Gross  –  61,300  (204 bb)
3.  Mirco Scharen  –  55,000  (183 bb)

Registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the beginning of Level 13, around 11:45 pm.

$250 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$10,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 11: 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 24 of 76

Registration closed on the Ladies Event and it was a great turnout. The tournament had a $10,000 guaranteed prize pool and the 76 entries easily surpassed it. They combined to create a prize pool worth $15,960 and the last ten spots will earn some money.

A min-cash is worth $479 while the winner takes home $5,394 plus the LHPO trophy, custom-framed winner’s photo courtesy of Image Masters, a vacation package at Hard Rock Atlantic City, and a $1,100 seat into the $1,000,000 Guarantee WPTDeepStacks Main Event.

2019 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 5
$250 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Entries:  76
Prize Pool:  $15,960
January 12, 2019

1st: $5,394 + Main Event seat and Hard Rock AC package
2nd: $3,112
3rd: $1,947
4th: $1,317
5th: $998
6th: $798
7th: $718
8th: $638
9th: $559
10th: $479

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 ante
Flight E Entries: 675

Registration closed on the fifth of eight flights in the Ultimate Re-Entry event and it drew a whopping 675 entries on a Saturday afternoon, the biggest of the tournament so far. The combined total is up to 2,560 with three huge flights to go.

Ultimate Re-Entry counts through Flight D

$250 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$10,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 600/1,200 with a 1,200 ante
Entries: 72

The Ladies Event is into the ninth level of the day and time is running out to get into the action. We have 72 entries so far, a great turnout for the special event.

Sachi Botner looks like the current leader with 65,000 and she has some competition on her right in Nancy Thomas. She picked up the biggest score of her career in the same event as the previously mentioned Jerry Wong. Thomas made the first Ultimate Re-Entry final table in 2017 and finished second for nearly $110,000.

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 1,600 ante
Flight E Entries: 674

They are running out the clock in Level 12 and players will take another break once it hits zero. Registration will close on Flight E when they return and the 674 we have already is a big number.

It includes former November Niner Jerry Wong, the first ever Ultimate Re-Entry champ. We first ran this format during the 2017 Lucky Hearts Poker Open and it drew 4,756 entries for the second biggest field in Florida poker history. Wong dominated late and took home a quarter of a million dollars in a four-way deal.

Of course for Wong, that wasn’t close to his biggest score. That would be his eighth-place finish at the 2016 WSOP Main Event final table for $1.1 million.

$360 Pot Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 10: 600/1,200
Players Remaining 36 of 86

The numbers are in and the $360 Pot Limit Omaha 8 game officially drew 86 entries to create a prize pool worth $25,800. The last 11 spots will be paid with a min-cash worth $722 and the winner walks away with $8,320 and the LHPO trophy.

2019 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 4
$360 Pot Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Entries:  86
Prize Pool:  $25,800
January 12, 2019

1st: $8,320 + LHPO trophy
2nd: $5,031
3rd: $3,128
4th: $2,116
5th: $1,613
6th: $1,290
7th: $1,071
8th: $903
9th: $832
10th: $774
11th: $722

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100

We already have a great turnout for the Ultimate Re-Entry and they will get one step closer to a $1,000,000 prize pool. That will double the guarantee on the tournament and push us near some record numbers before registration closes late Sunday night.

We have more than 2,500 entries so far with registration still open in Flight E and Flight F just getting underway.

Event 1 is a $360 best-stack-forward tournament which allows players to enter any and all the flights they wish. If they advance more than one stack, they will play their biggest on Day 2 and receive a $2,500 multi-stack payout for their smaller stacks. We have  a dozen players who already accomplished that feat including chip leader Frankie Flowers.

Players start their day with a 15,000 stack and 30-minute levels. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Level 13 at 11:45pm. Each starting flight will play down to the last 10% of the field, rounding down, and all those players will be in the money as they move on to Day 2 on Monday.

• $500,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 15,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Single ante will be paid from the big blind for the entire table
• 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
• Event 1 Structure Sheet

$360 Pot Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 9: 500/1,000
Entries: 86

The Pot Limit Omaha 8 game reached Level 9 and registration is now closed. The tournament clock shows 86 entries but we will await the final accounting before locking that in.

Once the numbers are crunched, we will post the prize pool and payout information.

$250 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$10,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 3: 100/200 with a 200 ante
Entries: 48

We put a $10,000 Guarantee on the Ladies Event and they wasted no time blasting past it. Entry number 48 officially put the prize pool over $10,000 and registration is open until 6:30pm.

Table 20 grabbed our attention at the start of the day when the four starting players were having a laugh. They are best friends and all drew the same table. Melissa Mancini, MG Fernandez, Christine DiFiore, and Robyn Marshman are having a good time before getting down to serious business later this evening.

Marshman is no stranger to this tournament; she won the Ladies Event during the 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown.

We have other successful women in the crowd including two big winners. Jacquelyn Scott won the WSOP Ladies Championship in 2015 and Melisa Singh won the WSOP Circuit Ladies Event ring when the series was here in October 2017