MSPT Grand Falls $360 Regional Event Day 1a | MSPT Grand Falls $360 Regional Event

03-18-2021 22:21 UTC-5

A Round of Updated Chip Counts

Anthony Thompson

Level 11 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Aaron Eggen	150,700 70,600	70,600
Tremayne Blue	110,900
Ikaika Delosantos	103,400 32,200	32,200
Stuart Barton	101,600 20,700	20,700
Paul Camby	100,900 10,700	10,700
Terence Reid	90,200 2,600	2,600
Derrek Dekook	75,600 35,000	35,000
Josh Nieman	71,200 12,500	12,500
Steve Belland	69,800 -2,600	-2,600
Chris Moen	66,700 -11,900	-11,900
Brady Roth	62,300 4,700	4,700
Scott Konze	34,900 23,400	23,400
Chase Lardy	17,200 -43,000	-43,000

03-18-2021 22:33 UTC-5

Player	Chips	Progress
Thapo Hsaluhmoo	225,400 105,100	105,100
Daryl Oppelt	132,400 34,600	34,600
Dale Fuchtman	123,400 14,500	14,500
Patrick Patenode	122,300
Jerad Rokusek	105,600 5,200	5,200
Jack Do	102,400 42,400	42,400
Joe Buren	80,900 26,300	26,300
Kerry Hildebrand	75,600 38,400	38,400
Trevis Devericks	69,800 -21,000	-21,000
Abraham Garang	55,600 -27,100	-27,100
Mike Fouts	32,400 -2,100	-2,100
Chad Swier	30,500 -60,500	-60,500
Cy Church	25,000 4,200	4,200
Taylor Howard	22,300 -78,600	-78,600

Swier Trips Up Do for Double

Anthony Thompson

Level 11 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Action on the table folded around to Chad Swier who raised all in for 20,500 and Jack Do looked him up from the big blind.

Jack Do:
Chad Swier:

Do was ahead with his made hand until the flop came giving Swier trip tens.

The turn didn't change a thing nor did the river and Swier collected his much-needed double.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jack Do	98,600 -3,800	-3,800
Chad Swier	45,300 14,800	14,800

Tags: Jack Do Chad Swier

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,500/2,500

Ante: 2,500

03-18-2021 22:59 UTC-5

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Anthony Thompson

Level 12 : 1,500/2,500, 2,500 ante

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03-18-2021 23:10 UTC-5

Carrasco Gets There on the River

Anthony Thompson

Level 12 : 1,500/2,500, 2,500 ante

Isaac Carrasco opened for 10,000 from early position and only the cutoff player called to see a flop.

Carrasco continued for 11,100 and then called off his 38,800 stack after his opponent moved all-in.

Isaac Carrasco:
Opponent:

Carrasco was behind needing a club but the turn left him drawing to the river. Luckily for Carrasco, the dropped on the river, completing his flush and securing his much-needed double.

Player	Chips	Progress
Isaac Carrasco	102,300

Tags: Isaac Carrasco

03-18-2021 23:22 UTC-5

Final Break of the Night

Anthony Thompson

Level 12 : 1,500/2,500, 2,500 ante

Players are now on their last 10-minute break of the night. When they return they'll play three more levels before bagging and tagging on Day 1a.

Level: 13

Blinds: 2,000/3,000

Ante: 3,000

03-18-2021 23:32 UTC-5

"Red Bull Robbie" Brings Big City Experience to Grand Falls

Anthony Thompson

Level 13 : 2,000/3,000, 3,000 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.

03-18-2021 23:43 UTC-5

Updated Chip Counts

Anthony Thompson

Level 13 : 2,000/3,000, 3,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Terence Reid	250,000 159,800	159,800
Thapo Hsaluhmoo	190,000 -35,400	-35,400
Cash Hepper	170,000
Patrick Patenode	165,000 42,700	42,700
Dale Fuchtman	145,000 21,600	21,600
Aaron Eggen	145,000 -5,700	-5,700
Paul Camby	145,000 44,100	44,100
Isaac Carrasco	135,000 32,700	32,700
Dale Faulhaber	135,000
Don Palmer	130,000
Daryl Oppelt	120,000 -12,400	-12,400
Stuart Barton	110,000 8,400	8,400
Scott Konze	103,000 68,100	68,100
Chris Moen	100,000 33,300	33,300
Jerad Rokusek	100,000 -5,600	-5,600
Kerry Hildebrand	95,000 19,400	19,400
Abraham Garang	90,000 34,400	34,400
Brady Roth	90,000 27,700	27,700
Tremayne Blue	80,000 -30,900	-30,900
Jack Do	65,000 -33,600	-33,600
Chase Lardy	50,000 32,800	32,800
Chad Swier	45,000 -300	-300
Joe Buren	40,000 -40,900	-40,900
Ikaika Delosantos	35,000 -68,400	-68,400
Taylor Howard	18,000 -4,300	-4,300