$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 22: 8,000/16,000/2,000 Ante

After what seemed like single-person focused coverage, the Noah Schwartz coaster ride came to an end.

Most of the damage came when he was against Shawn Nguyen with the better against . Nguyen added a gutshot wheel draw on the flop before hitting the turn. The river finished things off to knock Schwartz down to just 90,000.

He was gone soon after, much sooner than he wished.

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 22: 8,000/16,000/2,000 Ante

Schwartz is just attracting action now and this time is was against Esther Taylor-Brady. She three-bet shoved for 90,000 with and Schwartz quickly called with .

She was ahead an took an out away from Schwartz after the flop. Taylor-Brady made it through the turn and river to double over 200,000.

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 22: 8,000/16,000/2,000 Ante

Live updates are currently backlogged due to a system-wide internet outage but we’re back. Players are on their second break and we are pushing to catch up on the downtime action.

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 22: 8,000/16,000/2,000 Ante

Earnest Evans was in the Championship on the cheap after winning a satellite and he made a nice run before crashing out.

Lenny Duvdivani opened to 40,000 and Cornel Cimpan called. Evans moved all-in for 159,000 to get Duvdivani out of the pot but Cimpan quickly called. Evans said he didn’t think that sounds too good but he was incorrect.

Evans was ahead with against before the flop.

“Uh oh” was all Evans could say when he saw the open-ended straight draw. The turn was harmless but the straight completed on the river to send him out in 62nd.

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 22: 8,000/16,000/2,000 Ante

Cornel Cimpan saw plenty of action before it came around to him in the big blind. Yunior Bella opened for his entire 150,000 stack before Nader Bahhur came over the top for all his chips from the button.

The small blind let his hand go before Cimpan called having both players covered.

Cimpan:
Bella:
Bahhur:

It was a clean board for Cimpan to send both opponents to the rail while he moved up to 580,000.

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 22: 8,000/16,000/2,000 Ante

It’s not like we’re intentionally tracking Noah Schwartz, it just happens that he was involved in yet another huge, pre-flop hand.

He found a great time to pick up when he was facing of with John Krpan again with . Schwartz was all-in for 444,000 and never had a sweat as the board ran out to give him another full double. Krpan didn’t last much longer before going on in 70th.

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 22: 8,000/16,000/2,000 Ante

Before we could see the opening bets, Ryan Rivers was all-in for 444,000 with Mohshin Charania quickly calling.

Rivers was in trouble with against but got a big boost when the flop came . He dodged the bigger boat outs on the turn and river for the nice double.

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 22: 8,000/16,000/2,000 Ante

Players are back from their break and we have plenty of top local grinders represented in the top ten:

Ely Levy – 1,650,000
Shankar Pillai – 1,560,000
Raj Vohra – 1,520,000
Vladimir Dobrovolskiy – 1,375,000
Robert Campbell – 1,344,000
Scott Zakheim – 1,320,000
Brian Green – 1,270,000
John Thrower – 1,258,000
Scott Efron – 1,070,000
Jeffrey Gilbrater – 1,000,000

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 21: 6,000/12,000/2,000 Ante

Players are on their first break of the day with 73 players remaining in the Championship. They’ll return to blinds at 8,000/16,000/2,000.

Break: busted a guy open shipping a3x I call wi 99 we hold. Now we’re here . #WPT @shrpo #TeamHeadsUp #TEAMBLACK417 pic.twitter.com/aiwogsWiog

— Travis Northrope (@ShortStackMastr) April 20, 2015

Got 420k chips in @SHRPO main right now #420

— Brian Hastings (@brianchastings) April 20, 2015

$3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship
Level 21: 6,000/12,000/2,000 Ante

The rollercoaster ride for Noah Schwartz took another dip after his earlier double. He opened the action and then called when Mario Sanchez shoved for his last 108,000.

Schwartz:
Sanchez:

No help for Schwartz on but he picked up a straight draw on the turn. The gave Sanchez the overkill set to double while dropping to 215,000.