Players are on their first 10-minute break of the day.
MSPT Grand Falls $1,100 Main Event (Jan. 2021)
Level: 19
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 12,000
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Cy Church raised on the button and Kyna England defended her big blind to see a ![]()
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flop.
England check-called Church's continuation bet and the
dropped on the turn. England check-raised to 275,000 and Church called to see the
complete the board on the river.
England led out for 250,000 and was put to the test after Church raised all in for roughly 460,000. After some careful thought, England called and rolled over ![]()
for the queen-high straight.
Unfortunately for England, her straight was no good as Church rolled over ![]()
for a full house to win the massive pot.
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1,700,000
1,020,000
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120,000
240,000
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240,000 |
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Level: 20
Blinds: 10,000/15,000
Ante: 15,000
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.
| Seat | Table | Chip Count | |
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| 1 | 1 | Jimmy Zeledon | 400,000 |
| 1 | 2 | Phil Gioia | 1,200,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Alex Wheeler | 400,000 |
| 1 | 4 | Tim Garles | 800,000 |
| 1 | 5 | Josh Matti | 200,000 |
| 1 | 6 | Kyna England | 280,000 |
| 1 | 7 | Matt Sztamburski | 180,000 |
| 1 | 8 | Dave Sanderson | 1,100,000 |
| 1 | 9 | Cory Cove | 260,000 |
| 3 | 1 | Ha Nguyen | 600,000 |
| 3 | 2 | Kevin Berthelsen | 100,000 |
| 3 | 3 | Marc Harrell | 450,000 |
| 3 | 4 | Jason Robertson | 140,000 |
| 3 | 5 | Chad Bjorkman | 280,000 |
| 3 | 6 | William Reynolds | 300,000 |
| 3 | 7 | Paul Carney | 400,000 |
| 3 | 8 | Clinton Leitheiser | 300,000 |
| 3 | 9 | Ty Johnson | 290,000 |
| 5 | 1 | Cory Nordstrand | 230,000 |
| 5 | 2 | Cy Church | 1,600,000 |
| 5 | 3 | John Cap | 100,000 |
| 5 | 4 | Drazen Ilich | 310,000 |
| 5 | 5 | Anthony Scarborough | 520,000 |
| 5 | 6 | Daryl Oppelt | 125,000 |
| 5 | 7 | Jason Wagner | 500,000 |
| 5 | 8 | John Harms | 540,000 |
| 5 | 9 | Larry Loose | 650,000 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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1,600,000
100,000
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100,000 |
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1,200,000
712,000
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712,000 |
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1,100,000
200,000
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200,000 |
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800,000
340,000
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340,000 |
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650,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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600,000
300,000
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300,000 |
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540,000
80,000
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80,000 |
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520,000
60,000
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60,000 |
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500,000
440,000
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440,000 |
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450,000
200,000
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200,000 |
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400,000
203,000
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203,000 |
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400,000
273,000
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273,000 |
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400,000
120,000
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120,000 |
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310,000
159,000
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159,000 |
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300,000
20,000
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20,000 |
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300,000
60,000
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60,000 |
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290,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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280,000
160,000
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160,000 |
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280,000
160,000
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160,000 |
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260,000
70,000
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70,000 |
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230,000
77,000
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77,000 |
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200,000
300,000
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300,000 |
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180,000
98,000
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98,000 |
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140,000
120,000
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120,000 |
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125,000
275,000
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275,000 |