$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 4: 100/200 Flight C Entries: 214
The four levels down in Flight C of the Ultimate Re-Entry and players are taking their first break of the day. The Seniors Event is currently on the same schedule and they are leaving the meeting room as well.
Both tournaments have a healthy field so far and we expect more to join as the afternoon moves along.
$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 3: 75/150 Flight C Entries: 183
We’re seeing more familiar faces join in the Ultimate Re-Entry field including Eric Rivkin back for another big score in one of our majors. He’s fresh off a deep run in a Heartland Poker Tour Main Event and ready to run another heater.
Rivkin picked up some nice scores at the end of the summer when he had four cashes, three final tables, and a win during the WPT Choctaw series then followed that up with three more cashes during the WSOP Circuit stop in North Carolina.
He’s part of the Flight C field that is closing in on 200 entries with one more level to go before the first break and nine more levels of late registration.
$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em $500,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 2: 50/100 Flight C Entries: 101
Flight C crossed into triple digits by the end of the first level with more than six hours left to jump/re-jump into the game. Plenty of time to run it up once we reach the afternoon hours.
SHRP regular and champ Zoltan Czinkota is back in the ballroom and ready to put a stack into Day 2. He’s still waiting to collect his first major SHRP title but he has a lot of close calls. Czinkota has a lot of tournament results and built his career earnings over $330,000 without a score over $50,000. His biggest cash came with a 12th place finish in the 2016 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship for $49,000.
We have two flights of the Ultimate Re-Entry in the books and we’re ready to run through two more big fields today. Flight C kicks off at 11am and they will push the prize pool closer to the $500,000 Guarantee. Flights A and B drew 612 entries with 59 set to return on Sunday.
We’ll see some players today who already advanced a stack into Day 2 and they’ll be trying to build a bigger stack or pick up a $2,500 Multi-stack award. Anyone who manages that feat, like SHRP regular Raminder Singh yesterday, will play their biggest stack on Day 2 and earn a $2,500 payout for all other stacks.
Players will sit down to 15,000 starting stacks and 30-minute levels throughout the day. Late registration is open until the start of Level 13 at 5:45pm with unlimited re-entries during that time. They will continue to play until 10% of the field remains, rounding down, and those survivors will be in the money when they return on Sunday for Day 2.
Cards fly at the top of the hour and we’ll track them until they make the money.
$500,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 15,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
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
$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em $500,000 Guaranteed Level 16: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante Players Remaining: 28 of 285
Just after the levels switched and the blinds were raised, the bubble burst in Day 1B and the final 28 players moved on to Day 2. The group of 28 was led by Gunnar Rabe.
Rabe bagged the chip lead in the second starting flight and finished the day with 410,000. Roy Paulena (370,000), Trung Pham (328,000) and Mark Rose (267,000) round out the top four chip stacks from the flight.
Raminder Singh survived the flight, but will not take any of the chips he amassed in the later of the two flights today because he bagged up 291,000 in Day 1A. Singh finished Day 1B with 191,000, but those chips will come out of play and Singh pocketed $2,500 in cash. For each additional flight that he bags, he will receive another $2,500. He’s the first player to accomplish the mulit-bag in this event.
Other notables to survive the second flight include Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Ambassador Wally Maddah (112,000) and SHRP regular Marcus Stein (125,000).
$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em $500,000 Guaranteed Level 16: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante Players Remaining: 28 of 285
David Prociak moves all in from middle position for 55,000 and Angel Torres calls from the hijack. The big blind tanks for a couple minutes before folding.
While the big blind was in the tank, a player at another table is eliminated, creating the money bubble.
Prociak shows and is flipping with Torres’ .
“I can’t believe I’m going to bubble this thing,” says Prociak.
The flop is and Prociak gets up from the table and grabs his backpack. Torres takes the lead with top pair and any runout that doesn’t involve a queen sends Prociak home and the final 28 move on to Day 2.
The turn is the and the river is the . Torres wins the pot and the clock is stopped with 27:12 remaining in level 16.
$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em $500,000 Guaranteed Level 15: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante Players Remaining: 31 of 285
A player limps in from early position and a player in middle position raises to 20,000. Raminder Singh moves all in for 54,000 from the cutoff and action folds back to the original raiser, who calls.
“Show me queens,” says Singh, tabling .
The hijack obliges and shows him . The board runs out and Singh doubles up with a bigger full house. He’s the last player remaining in the flight who bagged up in Day 1B. If he survives another few eliminations, he’ll become the first player in the event to earn the $2,500 for bagging in two flights.
$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em $500,000 Guaranteed Level 14: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 ante Players Remaining: 35 of 285
A player in middle position moves all in for about 30,000 and Wally Maddah moves all in from the small blind for about 55,000. Everybody else gets out of the way and the cards are tabled.
Maddah tables and is flipping with his opponent’s .
The player at risk asks the dealer to ‘Keep it low,’ but the dealer doesn’t cooperate and spreads a flop of .
Maddah flops top pair to take the lead. The on the turn and the on the river don’t change anything and the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Ambassador scores a knockout. With just seven more eliminations, the remaining players will bag up for the night.
In five minutes, at the end of the level, the remaining players will take a 10-minute break.