MSPT Riverside $1,100 Main Event Day 1a | MSPT Riverside Casino

03-26-2021 16:14 UTC-5

Rogowski Rolling Early

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Level 2 : 100/200, 200 ante

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.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andy Rogowski	67,000 42,000	42,000

Tags: Andy Rogowski

Level: 3

Blinds: 200/300

Ante: 300

03-26-2021 16:35 UTC-5

Updated Chip Counts

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Level 3 : 200/300, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Taylor Howard	59,000 34,000	34,000
Stanley Webb	44,000
Jeff Fielder	44,000 19,000	19,000
Kevin Berthelsen	40,000 15,000	15,000
Jeff Grimes	30,000 5,000	5,000
Nick Pupillo	29,000 4,000	4,000

Keith Heine	28,000 3,000	3,000
John Simon	28,000 3,000	3,000
Todd Sladek	25,000
Stanislav Angelov	22,300
Jeff Bryan	16,700 -8,300	-8,300
Reg Powell	15,000 -10,000	-10,000
Bill Romer	10,000 -15,000	-15,000
George Dietz	9,500 -15,500	-15,500
Dan Bekavac	Busted

03-26-2021 16:43 UTC-5

Mader Doubles

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Level 3 : 200/300, 300 ante

Phil Mader, pictured in a different event.

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.

Player	Chips	Progress
Phil Mader	35,000 10,000	10,000

Tags: Phil Mader

03-26-2021 16:57 UTC-5

Updated Chip Counts

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Level 3 : 200/300, 300 ante

Former MSPT champ Steve Wilkie has filled Kyna England's old seat.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gary Herstein	54,000
Nick Pupillo	39,000 10,000	10,000

Jason Ramos	30,000
Steve Wilkie	25,000
Steve Federspiel	17,600 -7,400	-7,400
Cody Brinn	9,500 -15,500	-15,500
Mike Lang	8,700
Kyna England	Busted

Tags: Steve Wilkie

03-26-2021 17:00 UTC-5

Herstein Bet-Folds the Best of it

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Level 3 : 200/300, 300 ante

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.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gary Herstein	49,000 -5,000	-5,000

Tags: Gary Herstein

Level: 4

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 400

03-26-2021 17:20 UTC-5

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

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Level 4 : 200/400, 400 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 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.

03-26-2021 17:35 UTC-5

Heine Turns One Dead

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Level 4 : 200/400, 400 ante

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.

Player	Chips	Progress
Keith Heine	52,000 24,000	24,000

Tags: Keith Heine

03-26-2021 17:43 UTC-5

Marsh Dubs With Quads

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Level 4 : 200/400, 400 ante

On a board of , Nick Marsh was all in for 11,400, about the size of the pot. Stanley Webb was in the tank and then tossed in some chips with a "nice hand."