Level: 6
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
Level: 6
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ryan Skluzak |
85,600
16,900
|
16,900 |
Clint Leitheiser |
81,900
19,600
|
19,600 |
Ryan Svoboda
|
79,800
19,800
|
19,800 |
Josh Nieman |
78,900
2,400
|
2,400 |
Mark Fink |
50,900
26,300
|
26,300 |
Wes Hitchcock
|
42,100
-13,500
|
-13,500 |
Brady Roth |
32,400
4,600
|
4,600 |
Matt Alexander |
29,400
7,300
|
7,300 |
Bridgette Field |
26,700
7,500
|
7,500 |
Tom Dean
|
19,200 |
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.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Andrew Henning
|
102,400 | |
Mike Fouts |
88,300
48,900
|
48,900 |
Jerrit Prins
|
72,600 | |
Jonathan Kim |
70,800
13,200
|
13,200 |
Mark Larson |
62,300
-15,300
|
-15,300 |
Bob Van Syckle |
55,400
24,000
|
24,000 |
Cy Church |
48,700
3,400
|
3,400 |
Bryan Skreens |
31,200
6,200
|
6,200 |
Taylor Howard |
18,200
18,200
|
18,200 |
Level: 7
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 800
Dan Dykhouse raised to 2,500 from middle position and only Mike Fouts called from the button.
The flop came , Dykhouse continued for 2,100 and then tossed out 3,600 after the fell on the turn. Fouts called both bets but folded after Dykhouse fired out 6,000 on the river.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Dan Dykhouse | 37,800 | |
Mike Fouts |
28,700
-59,600
|
-59,600 |
Action folded to a player in late position who raised all in for 10,300 and Jay Goughnour isolated from the button.
Jay Goughnour:
Opponent:
Goughnour had his opponent crushed and nothing changed after the runout.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jay Goughnour | 22,300 |
Level: 8
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Andrew Henning
|
188,700
86,300
|
86,300 |
Jeff Grimes |
88,200
5,900
|
5,900 |
Ryan Skluzak |
83,700
-1,900
|
-1,900 |
Clint Leitheiser |
80,000
-1,900
|
-1,900 |
Cy Church |
71,200
22,500
|
22,500 |
Josh Nieman |
41,200
-37,700
|
-37,700 |
Wes Hitchcock
|
40,000
-2,100
|
-2,100 |
Bridgette Field |
28,300
1,600
|
1,600 |
Josh Matti |
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
Swadeep Mishra |
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
Brady Roth |
14,200
-18,200
|
-18,200 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Bryan Skreens |
98,700
67,500
|
67,500 |
Lawrence Vigil |
92,400
92,400
|
92,400 |
Mark Fink |
86,700
35,800
|
35,800 |
Mark Larson |
74,500
12,200
|
12,200 |
Tom Dean
|
72,300
53,100
|
53,100 |
Ryan Svoboda
|
66,200
-13,600
|
-13,600 |
Jonathan Kim |
40,500
-30,300
|
-30,300 |
Jay Goughnour |
37,600
15,300
|
15,300 |
Steve Belland |
31,200
13,600
|
13,600 |
Anthony Scarborough |
27,400
7,600
|
7,600 |
Taylor Howard |
25,000
6,800
|
6,800 |
Marc Harrell |
25,000
12,700
|
12,700 |
Shanda Myers
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
Alex Wheeler |
22,100
3,400
|
3,400 |
Bob Van Syckle |
20,100
-35,300
|
-35,300 |