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

03-19-2021 21:10 UTC-5

Break Time

Anthony Thompson

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Four more levels have come and gone, which means the field has been sent on a 10-minute break.

03-19-2021 21:07 UTC-5

Skreens Eliminates Opponent With Cowboys

Anthony Thompson

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

A player from middle position opened with a raise and Bryan Skreens three-bet from the small blind. Action folded back too the initial raiser who jammed for roughly 25,000 and Skreens snap-called.

Bryan Skreens:
Opponent:

Skreens had his opponent crushed and the runout secured him the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bryan Skreens	111,200	12,500

Tags: Bryan Skreens

03-19-2021 21:02 UTC-5

Another Round of Updated Chip Counts

Anthony Thompson

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Bryan Skreens	98,700	67,500
Lawrence Vigil	92,400	92,400
Mark Fink	86,700	35,800
Mark Larson	74,500	12,200
Tom Dean	72,300	53,100
Ryan Svoboda	66,200	-13,600
Jonathan Kim	40,500	-30,300
Jay Goughnour	37,600	15,300
Steve Belland	31,200	13,600
Anthony Scarborough	27,400	7,600
Taylor Howard	25,000	6,800
Marc Harrell	25,000	12,700
Shanda Myers	25,000	25,000
Alex Wheeler	22,100	3,400
Bob Van Syckle	20,100	-35,300

03-19-2021 20:56 UTC-5

Updated Chip Counts

Anthony Thompson

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrew Henning	188,700	86,300
Jeff Grimes	88,200	5,900
Ryan Skluzak	83,700	-1,900
Clint Leitheiser	80,000	-1,900
Cy Church	71,200	22,500
Josh Nieman	41,200	-37,700
Wes Hitchcock	40,000	-2,100
Bridgette Field	28,300	1,600
Josh Matti	25,000	25,000
Swadeep Mishra	25,000	25,000
Brady Roth	14,200	-18,200

Level: 8

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 1,000

03-19-2021 20:37 UTC-5

Goughnour Hooks Opponent

Anthony Thompson

Level 7 : 400/800, 800 ante

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

Tags: Jay Goughnour

03-19-2021 20:25 UTC-5

Dykhouse Stays Aggressive Against Fouts

Anthony Thompson

Level 7 : 400/800, 800 ante

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

Tags: Dan Dykhouse Mike Fouts

Level: 7

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 800

03-19-2021 20:08 UTC-5

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrew Henning	102,400
Mike Fouts	88,300	48,900
Jerrit Prins	72,600
Jonathan Kim	70,800	13,200
Mark Larson	62,300	-15,300
Bob Van Syckle	55,400	24,000
Cy Church	48,700	3,400
Bryan Skreens	31,200	6,200
Taylor Howard	18,200	18,200

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

Anthony Thompson

Level 6 : 300/600, 600 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.