MSPT Riverside Casino

MSPT Riverside $1,100 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

MSPT Riverside Casino

Final Results
Winner
Daniel Sepiol
Winning Hand
kq
Prize
$162,781
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,100
Prize Pool
$836,140
Entries
862
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
150,000 / 250,000
Ante
40,000
Players Info - Day 1a
Entries
354
Players Left
48

"Red Bull Robbie" Brings Big City Experience to Riverside Casino

Level 4 : 200/400, 400 ante
Robbie Thompson
Robbie Thompson

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 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 at Grand Falls poker room ever since, and given that's a sister property to Riverside Casino, he was brought down to help run the tournament.