Level: 10
Blinds: 1,000/1,500
Ante: 1,500
MSPT Grand Falls $1,100 Main Event (Jan. 2021)
MSPT Grand Falls $1,100 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
MSPT Grand Falls $1,100 Main Event (Jan. 2021)
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1a
Buy-in
$1,100
Prize Pool
$471,860
Entries
488
Level
30
Blinds
100,000 / 150,000
Ante
30,000
Entries
231
Players Left
30
Players Left 1 / 488
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Level 9
: 600/1,200, 1,200 ante
Players are now on another 10-minute break.
Level 9
: 600/1,200, 1,200 ante
After an initial raise to 2,500, there were five players that saw a 
flop and action was checked to the 
turn.
Action was checked to the big blind player who led out for for 4,000 and only Kevin Berthelsen called to see the 
complete the board on the river.
The big blind player led out once again for 7,000 but was stuck with a decision after Berthelsen raised all in. After a few minutes in the tank, the big blind players tossed in their remaining stack and the two players revealed their hands.
Kevin Berthelsen: 
Opponent: 
The big blind player turned broadway but Berthelsen spiked the flush on the river to take down the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
99,800
15,600
|
15,600 |
Level 9
: 600/1,200, 1,200 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.
Level 9
: 600/1,200, 1,200 ante
Terrence Reid raised to 2,500 from early position, Erv Bjerga called from middle position and action folded around to the big blind player who came along as well.
The 
flop was checked by all three players to the 
turn. Action was checked to Reid who fired out a 4,000 bet and it did the trick as both opponent's folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
42,300 | |
|
|
30,700
16,500
|
16,500 |
Level: 9
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 1,200
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Cory Cove raised to 2,400 from late position and was called by the player in the cutoff before the button player jammed for roughly 30,000.
Action folded back around to Cove who isolated and the two players tabled their hands.
Cory Cove: 
Opponent: 
Cove was well ahead with his rockets but the 
flop gave him a sweat as after his opponent paired their queen.
The turn was a safe card for Cove as he just needed to fade a queen on the river and did as the came down to eliminate his opponent.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
160,000
65,400
|
65,400 |
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Henry Gingerich raised to 2,100 from under the gun and action folded to the player on the button who three-bet to 6,100. The blinds folded and action was back on Gingerich who called to see a 
flop.
Gingerich check-jammed after his opponent continued for 7,100 and was called.
Henry Gingerich: 
Opponent: 
The 
paired the board on the turn and Gingerich needed to spike either queen or eight to win the hand.
Luckily for Gingerich, the 
appeared on the river to complete his straight and his opponent was sent to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
89,900
89,900
|
89,900 |
Level 8
: 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Tim Dorzweiler raised all in for 14,800 from under the gun, the player from middle position called for roughly the same amount and the hijack player isolated.
Tim Dorzweiler:
Hijack Player: 
Middle Position Player: 
Dorzweiler was behind holding the worst of it but the 
flop gave him life with a club flush draw.
The turn wasn't a club but it did pair Dorzweiler and the river secured him the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
44,400
44,400
|
44,400 |
