Level: 9
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 1,200
2020 Mid-States Poker Tour Grand Falls
$1,100 Main Event ($150K GTD)
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1b
2020 Mid-States Poker Tour Grand Falls
Buy-in
$1,100
Prize Pool
$500,960
Entries
518
Level
31
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
Entries
292
Players Left
40
Van Syckle Doubles Through Cordell
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
The details escaped us but we arrived at the table just in time to see Bob Van Syckle get his last 11,600 all in on a 
flop against Mike Cordell.
Mike Cordell: 
Bob Van Syckle: 
Cordell had flopped top pair but was behind the bullets of Van Syckle. The 
turn locked up the double for Van Syckle and he was pushed the pot after the 
improved him to a full house.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
72,000 | |
|
33,000 |
Neether Sends One Packing
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
A player in early position moved all in for 9,800 and Brenda Neether called from the cutoff. The rest of the players folded and Neether asked, "What ya got?"
"Not much," came the reply as the hands were turned up.
Brenda Neether: 
Opponent: 
Neether had the best of it and her kicker made the difference after the board ran out 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
40,000 |
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Level 8
: 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
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Another Round of Chip Counts
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
145,000 | 103,000 |
|
90,000 | 5,000 |
|
80,000 | 60,000 |
|
|
80,000 | 61,000 |
|
75,000 | 45,500 |
|
|
58,000 | 34,000 |
|
45,000 | -7,000 |
|
40,000 | 5,000 |
|
30,000 | -25,000 |
|
25,000 | 9,500 |
|
25,000 | 1,000 |
|
10,000 |
Level: 8
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
Former MSPT Grand Falls Champ Doubles Up
Level 7
: 400/800, 800 ante
After a player in middle position raised to 2,000 and another called from the button, MSPT Season 8 Grand Falls champ Ahmed Taleb three-bet to 6,500, leaving himself just 8,000 behind in the small blind. The original raiser then four-bet it to 22,000 and the button player folded.
Ahmed Taleb: 
Opponent: 
Taleb had the best of it and shipped the double after the board ran out a clean 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
35,000 | 20,500 |
A Round of Chip Counts
Level 7
: 400/800, 800 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
100,000 | 40,000 |
|
80,000 | 60,000 |
|
80,000 | -2,000 |
|
75,000 | 40,000 |
|
50,000 | -60,000 |
|
50,000 | |
|
45,000 | 12,000 |
|
43,000 | 43,000 |
|
40,000 | 16,000 |
|
38,000 | -2,000 |
|
32,000 | 22,500 |
|
30,000 | 7,000 |
|
23,000 | 7,400 |
Whittington Displeased
Level 7
: 400/800, 800 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
10,000 | 10,000 |
"Red Bull Robbie" Brings Big City Experience to Grand Falls
Level 7
: 400/800, 800 ante
Back in the day, Robbie Thompson was a staple at the annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Not only that, he was a fixture on the poker circuit.
So how did the man, who hails from nearby Egan, South Dakota (Pop. 720) and still lives in the same house he did when he was just three years old, get to such a spot in the poker world?
In 1993, Thompson, who used to work manual labor, took a job as a blackjack dealer.
“After a couple years in the pit, I made my move to poker,” Thompson previously said in an interview with CardsChat. “I was leaving my shift one day and my manager asked if I would deal poker that night. She knew that I played, so without any training I sat in the box to a 7-Card Stud hi-lo game and the rest is history.”
Eventually, around 2002, Thompson became a traveling dealer and worked his first WSOP in 2004. Two more years of experience saw him dealing the WSOP final table, and from there it was off to gigs on the European Poker Tour and World Poker Tour. In 2008, he had his chance to become the final table announcer of the WSOP.
In 2017, things came full circle when Thompson got off the road and Renee Thomas, the poker room manager at Grand Falls, offered him a job. As it happened, she was the aforementioned manager who gave him his start 25 years earlier.
Thompson has been using his big-time experience here at the Grand Falls poker room ever since.