$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.

$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

$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 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 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 9: 400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight E Entries: 634

The break is over and Flight E picked up a few more entries while they were out of the room. Players still have two hours worth of late registration to get to the Event Center to fire this flight, or they can come for the start of Flight F at 5pm.

We have a new leader and Reece Lightner is the only player over 100,000. He came back to a stack worth 113,000 which is good enough to top the field with Victor Merkel (95,000), Nick Hopkins (93,000), Song Kim (92,000), and Nicholas Rasona (90,000) rounding out the top five.

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8: 300/600 with a 600 ante
Flight E Entries: 620

Flight E is blowing up and the 620 entries pushed the combined total over 2,500. This final number is going to be huge.

More South Florida regulars are playing today including Jon “PearlJammer” Turner. He has more than $3,000,000 in live career earnings but that is a drop in the buckets compared to the wizard’s $8,000,000 in online poker earnings.

We also found former SHRP champs David Bradshaw and Paul Balzano at the front of the Event Center sharing a moment.

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5: 200/300 with a 300 ante
Flight E Entries: 481

Flight E returned from the first break of the day and players continue to parade back into the Event Center running the entry count higher. The 481 entries so far pushed the prize pool over $700,000 with an eye on a $1,000,000 prize pool.

Ronald Katz is the early leader with 63,000 with Sean Harper not far behind with 61,000. That’s a good start to their day but there is a lot of work to do before advancing to Day 2.

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4: 100/200 with a 200 ante
Flight E Entries: 389

Flight E moved into Level 4 and they are close to hitting 400 entries before the first break. The combined entry count is over 2,200 and they continue to pile into the Event Center to run up the numbers.

Chris Hinchcliffe is back with us and he may have traveled the furthest to get here. He is a Northern California pro with more than $1,000,000 in career earnings and he flew across the country for the series.

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 2: 100/200
Flight E Entries: 248

One of the benefits of the Ultimate Re-Entry format is that you can collect some big money well before sitting down for Day 2. David Nathaniel has already locked up $5,000 plus he’ll be in the money when he comes back on Monday.

We have run four flights of the Ultimate Re-Entry and Nathaniel cruised to the money in three of them. That means he’ll play the 238.500 he bagged up in Flight C and he was paid out for the others at $2,500 a piece.

Not a bad way to start the series.

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1: 100/100
Flight E Entries: 169

Cards are in the air for the start of Flight E of the Ultimate Re-Entry event. The tournament already had 1,885 entries through the first flights with the four busiest expected over the next two days.

Late registration is open in Flight E until 5:45pm with Flight F starting at 5pm.