MSPT Grand Falls $1,100 Main Event ($200K GTD) Day 1b | MSPT Grand Falls $1,100 Main Event ($200K GTD)

08-21-2021 16:36 UTC-5

A Round of Chip Counts

Anthony Thompson

Level 3 : 200/200, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Vic Peppe	61,300 21,300	21,300
Jim Randash	61,200 36,200	36,200
Taylor Howard	59,800 34,800	34,800
Bob Van Syckle	55,600 30,600	30,600
Boomer Schumer	51,300
Jay Philips	51,200 26,200	26,200
Doc Hanson	41,300 16,300	16,300
Steve Wazwaz	33,400 8,400	8,400
Dale Hackney	31,200 6,200	6,200
Eric Eelkema	27,800 2,800	2,800
Stan Webb	27,300 7,200	7,200
Aaron Johnson	26,500 1,500	1,500
Saad Ghanem	25,000 25,000	25,000
Brian Tuenge	25,000 25,000	25,000
Jovan Sudar	25,000 25,000	25,000
Cory Nordstrand	25,000
Marcy Paulson	23,400 1,600	1,600
Jason Darland	23,400 1,600	1,600
Bruce Swart	23,100 800	800
Chad Bjorkman	22,400 2,600	2,600
Larry Loose	21,300 3,700	3,700
Phil Mader	17,600 7,400	7,400
Dapo Ajayi	14,300 5,500	5,500
Roger Johnson	7,100 17,900	17,900

Level: 3

Blinds: 200/200

Ante: 300

08-21-2021 16:17 UTC-5

Player	Chips	Progress
Vic Peppe	40,000 40,000	40,000

Ajayi Pays Off Webb

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Anthony Thompson

Level 2 : 100/200, 200 ante

There was three-way action with a board showing and Bruce Swart checked his option from the small blind to Dapo Ajayi who fired out 1,600 into a 2,900 pot from the big blind.

Action was on Stan Webb who raised to 4,000, Swart folded while Ajayi called and the completed the board on the river.

Ajayi checked his option only to have Webb toss out a grey 5,000 chip. Ajayi went deep into the dank and found the muscle to call but quickly folded after Webb showed for a flopped two-pair.

Player	Chips	Progress
Stan Webb	34,500 34,500	34,500
Bruce Swart	22,300 2,700	2,700
Dapo Ajayi	19,800 19,800	19,800

Tags: Bruce Swart Dapo Ajayi Stan Webb

08-21-2021 15:51 UTC-5

A Look at the MSPT Hall of Fame

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Anthony Thompson

Level 2 : 100/200, 200 ante

The MSPT Hall of Fame, established in 2017, is proud to recognize those individuals who have shown superior skill and achieved specific long-term accomplishments.

The criteria to earn a spot on the MSPT Hall of Fame is as follows:

Achieve a minimum of 25 MSPT Main Event Cashes and 1 MSPT Win OR 1 MSPT Player of the Year; or
Achieve a minimum of 10 MSPT Main Event Final Tables and 1 MSPT Win OR 1 MSPT Player of the Year

To see which players are close to achieving HOF status, refer to the comprehensive MSPT Stats page.

As of today, seven players are currently enshrined in the MSPT Hall of Fame.

Level: 2

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 200

08-21-2021 15:36 UTC-5

Player	Chips	Progress
Robert Steinmetz	25,000 25,000	25,000
Roger Johnson	25,000 25,000	25,000
Taylor Howard	25,000 25,000	25,000
Ha Nguyen	25,000 25,000	25,000
Jason Darland	25,000 25,000	25,000
Doc Hanson	25,000 25,000	25,000
Eric Eelkema	25,000 25,000	25,000
Dale Hackney	25,000 25,000	25,000
Larry Loose	25,000 25,000	25,000
Terence Reid	25,000 25,000	25,000
Mark Fink	25,000 25,000	25,000
Jim Randash	25,000 25,000	25,000
Ty Johnson	25,000 25,000	25,000
Bob Van Syckle	25,000 25,000	25,000

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

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Anthony Thompson

Level 1 : 100/100, 100 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.

08-21-2021 15:12 UTC-5

Old and New Faces in the Crowd

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Anthony Thompson

Level 1 : 100/100, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Chad Bjorkman	25,000 25,000	25,000
Michael Baker	25,000 25,000	25,000
TJ Murphy	25,000 25,000	25,000

Jay Philips	25,000 25,000	25,000
Marcy Paulson	25,000 25,000	25,000
Steve Wazwaz	25,000 25,000	25,000
Rob Wazwaz	25,000 25,000	25,000

Phil Mader	25,000 25,000	25,000
Jonathan Kim	25,000 25,000	25,000
Aaron Johnson	25,000 25,000	25,000
Bruce Swart	25,000 25,000	25,000

08-21-2021 15:01 UTC-5

Update Your Own Chip Count Using the PokerNews MyStack App!

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Anthony Thompson

Level 1 : 100/100, 100 ante

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