Four players saw a 
flop and an early player mashed all in for 9,500 into about 6,000 after Keith Heine checked in the big blind. Two players behind folded but Heine quickly called.
Heine: 
Opponent: 
Heine had a heap of outs and the 
locked it up for him on the turn.
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.
Level: 4
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
A player under the gun bet 700 on a 
flop and Gary Herstein made it 2,400 from the cutoff. The under-the-gun player peeled, bringing the 
. Herstein kept barreling for 3,000 but faced a check-raise to 10,000.
Herstein said he needed a minute then eventually folded, flashing the 
. His opponent showed 
for a bluff.
Players are now on break for 10 minutes.
Former MSPT champ Steve Wilkie has filled Kyna England's old seat.
We didn't see the action, but it appeared Phil Mader got all in for 15,400 from the button on a 
flop holding 
. He was ahead of a player under the gun who showed 
and bricked out as Broadways hit the turn and river.
Mader grabbed a double, as well as the 4,500 or so that was already in the pot.
Level: 3
Blinds: 200/300
Ante: 300
Andy Rogowski is off to a stellar start with more than two starting stacks already in Level 2.
In one recent hand, he checked in middle position with 6,000 already in the middle on 
. An opponent in the hijack checked back and Rogowski led out for 3,500 on the 
river. That earned him the pot in fairly short order.
Ken Baime was in middle position facing a big-blind opponent on 
. The big blind bet 3,500 and Baime called. On the river, the big blind put in his last 11,500. The former MSPT champ needed only about 30 seconds before releasing.
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