Ultimate Re-Entry: Level 23 Begins; Jeffrey Colpitts Leads with 3.98 Million

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry
$500,000 Guaranteed | Payouts
Level 23: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining: 52 of 4,508

Jeffrey Colpitts
Chipleader Jeffrey Colpitts

The players return from break to begin Level 23, with increased blinds of 15,000-30,000 and a big-blind ante of 30,000. With 52 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 1,187,000 (40 big blinds).

A scan of the field during the dinner break turned up six players with at least two million in chips, followed by some of the other notables still in the field:

1.  Jeffrey Colpitts  –  3,980,000  (133 bb)
2.  Michael Ortiz  –  3,395,000  (113 bb)
3.  Willie Wiggins  –  3,705,000  (124 bb)
4.  Mark Threadgill  –  2,310,000  (77 bb)
5.  Gino Cham  –  2,045,000  (68 bb)
6.  Angel Bracho  –  2,030,000  (68 bb)

Phil Hui  –  1,920,000  (64 bb)
Michael Johnson  –  1,750,000  (58 bb)
Song O.  –  1,750,000  (58 bb)
Scott Baumstein  –  1,600,000  (53 bb)
Richard Carr  –  1,510,000  (50 bb)
Francois Zayas  –  1,500,000  (50 bb)
Devond Marshall  –  1,200,000  (40 bb)
Erik Christensen  –  1,150,000  (38 bb)
Jason Young  –  1,135,000  (38 bb)
Ariel Rosello  –  1,100,000  (37 bb)
Scott Robbins  –  1,000,000  (33 bb)
John Holley  –  875,000  (29 bb)
Rafael Marcondes Dos Reis  –  805,000  (27 bb)
Paulius Bikus  –  800,000  (27 bb)
Larry Klur  –  800,000  (27 bb)
Oscar Valdes  –  750,000  (25 bb)
Nancy Birnbaum  –  565,000  (19 bb)
Alejandro Funes  –  530,000  (18 bb)
Michael Newman  –  500,000  (17 bb)
Bret Grebow  –  350,000  (12 bb)

And here is the remaining prizepool at stake:

1st:  $251,813 + LHPO trophy
2nd:  $154,337
3rd:  $81,230
4th:  $63,359
5th:  $45,895
6th:  $34,929
7th:  $26,806
8th:  $19,495
9th:  $13,809
10th-12th:  $8,935
13th-15th:  $7,311
16th-18th:  $5,686
19th-21st:  $4,062
22nd-24th:  $3,655
25th-27th:  $3,249
28th-30th:  $2,843
31st-33rd:  $2,437
34th-36th:  $2,031
37th-81st:  $1,400