$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’emLevel 21: 12,000/24,000 with a 4,000 ante Players Remaining: 79 of 4,756 Average Stack: 835,000 (34 bb) 5h6p49

Matt Waxman raised all in from under the gun for about 185,000 and the player on the button called with , leading Waxman’s .

The flop came down , giving Waxman outs to a flush and straight. However, neither the turn nor the river helped Waxman, ending his tournament in 80th place for $1,500.

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Level 20: 10,000/20,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining: 84 of 4,756
Average Stack: 785,000 (39 bb)

A short-stacked player raised all in from under the gun for about 35,000,  the player in the cutoff reshoved for about 90,000, and Qasem Jamhour gave them action from the button with , leading the short stacks’s and the cutoff’s .

The board came down , safe for Jamhour to score the double elimination.

Qasem Jamhour – 2,150,000 (107 bb)

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Level 20: 10,000/20,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining: 98 of 4,756
Average Stack: 673,000 (34 big blinds)

Players returned from their second break of the day with less than 100 players remaining. Qasem Jamhour went on break with 1.7 million and promptly moved himself over 2 million shortly after coming.

Ryan McQuellon is not far behind at all and Ravi Mahtani is making a bid to them over 2 million.

They will play two more hour-long levels before going on a 40-minute dinner break.

Million chip stacks:

Qasem Jamhour – 2,100,000 (105 bb)
Ryan McQuellon – 2,000,000 (100 bb)
Ravi Mahtani – 1,700,000 (85 bb)
Gail Erlichman – 1,550,000 (78 bb)
Joseph Villatico – 1,500,000 (75 bb)
Marco Cantizani – 1,500,000 (75 bb)
Gerald Fehr – 1,377,000 (69 bb)
Kenneth Hick – 1,350,000 (68 bb)
Travis Hart – 1,345,000 (67 bb)
Richard Hutchings – 1,305,000 (65 bb)
A. Chak – 1,300,000 (65 bb)
Steven McKoy – 1,040,000 (52 bb)

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Level 20: 10,000/20,000 with a 3,000 ante
Players Remaining: 98 of 4,756
Average Stack: 673,000 (33 big blinds)

A short-stacked Matt Waxman was all in for 62,000 from the cutoff with against Travis Hart in the small blind with .

The board came down , giving Waxman an ace-high straight to double through Hart.

“Lose a pot for million, win a pot for 150,000. The ups and down of poker,” joked Waxman after the hand.

Matt Waxman – 165,000 (8 bb)
Travis Hart – 1,300,000 (65 bb)

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Level 19: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 115 of 4,756
Average Stack: 574,000 (36 big blinds)

SHRP regular Larry Klur is doing his part as well to get the field smaller. After a self-declared rough time at the start of Day 2, he’s now sitting comfortably after sending two players out.

We caught the action with Klur involved in the big three-way pot when he called two shoves to put Mark Hodge and Hollander Preap at risk.

Klur:
Hodge:
Preap:

Klur was dominating them both and called for all low cards from the dealer. His huge lead shrunk on the flop but he dodged Preap’s straight draw on the turn and river.

The hand sent Hodge and Preap out of the tournament while Klur moved up to 830,000.

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Level 19: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 128 of 4,756
Average Stack: 515,000 (32 big blinds)

The pace of play slowed a bit once the blinds increased again but there are still some big hands, especially when you run into coolers like happened to Abbey Daniels.

The former WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown final table member moved all-in from early position and Marcus Stein asked for a count from the button. He called the shove after hearing it was 155,000 and the blind released.

Stein:
Daniels:

It was tough running into a bigger pair and the board could not save her tournament.

On the flip side, 2012 Seminole Hard Rock “Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open” Championship winner Victor Figueroa is moving higher. A quick look at his stack shows the SHRP regular over 1.1 million and when asked if he sent someone to the rail he responded, “he did it to himself.”

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Returning to Level 18: 6,000/12,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 182 of 4,756
Average Stack: 362,000 (30 big blinds)

Players are back in their seats and the call of “payout!” continues to ring throughout the ballroom.

Ramon Miquel’s hold on the lead was short-lived and it now belongs to tablemate Ryan McQuellon with nearly 1.3 million. Miquel remain over the million chip mark to put a lot in play on Table 7. Soheb Porbandarwala, Bryan Neira, and former SHRP champ Steven McKoy round out the seven-digit stacks at the first break.

Top stacks and some notables:

Ryan McQuellon – 1,265,000 (105 bb)
Soheb Porbandarwala – 1,200,000 (100 bb)
Ramon Miquel – 1,100,000 (92 bb)
Bryan Neira – 1,100,000 (92 bb)
Steven McKoy – 1,000,000 (83 bb)
Hunter Ritchie – 940,000 (78 bb)
David Diaz – 889,000 (74 bb)
David Gonia – 860,000 (72 bb)
Casey Carroll – 841,000 (70 bb)
Jerry Wong – 827,000 (69 bb)
Jorge Lopez – 750,000 (63 bb)
David Prociak – 727,000 (61 bb)
Michael Laake – 725,000 (60 bb)
Eduardo Pacheco – 720,000 (60 bb)
Qasem Jamhour – 697,000 (58 bb)
Larry Klur – 563,000 (47 bb)
James Salmon – 475,000 (40 bb)
Paul Balzano – 408,000 (34 bb)
Victor Figueroa – 382,000 (32 bb)
Manny Minaya – 330,000 (28 bb)
Raminder Singh – 320,000 (27 bb)
Devon Shalmi – 310,000 (26 bb)
Matthew Waxman – 270,000 (23 bb)
Brian Phillis – 250,000 (21 bb)
Evan Teitelbaum – 242,000 (20 bb)
Abbey Daniels – 170,000 (14 bb)
Nancy Thomas – 145,000 (12 bb)

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Returning to Level 18: 6,000/12,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 190 of 4,756
Average Stack: 347,000 (29 big blinds)

After all that action, the remaining ~190 players could use a short breather away from the tables. The parade should continue at a brisk pace until the hour-long levels begin to deepen the stacks.

We’ll take this first opportunity to find the other big stacks in the room after the first two levels of controlled mayhem.

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Level 17: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 205 of 4,756
Average Stack: 322,000 (32 big blinds)

Life moves pretty fast, and so does Day 2 of the Ultimate Re-Entry. The field will easily drop below 200 players before the first break and there’s seems to be no slowing them down.

Tables are breaking as fast as tournament staff can collect open seat cards and the payout lines stretches halfway across the length of the ballroom.

It looks like our new leader is Ramon Miquel who began the day with 298,000 but now sits with 1.1 million. Not a bad way to start the day.

$360 Ultimate Re-Entry No Limit Hold’em
Level 17: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 264 of 4,756
Average Stack: 250,000 (25 big blinds)

They are flying out the door here even as the levels and stacks go up. More than 100 players hit the rail in the first hour, the good times of starting Day 2 already in the money after they dealt with the money bubble pressure in their starting flight.

Reigning Seminole Hard Rock Poker Player of the Year David Prociak did his part to help run the field higher up the payout ladder. He was heads up with Chris Robinson and the board reading when Robinson put in his last 127,000 holding . The starter was looking for a two outer after Prociak tabled the turned set but the blank sent him out in 265th place. Prociak now takes his place among the leaders with 850,000.