2016 Cash Game Festival London
Day 1 Completed
2016 Cash Game Festival London (Fall)
2016 Cash Game Festival London
Day: 1
Great Start to the Cash Game Festival London
Day 1 of the 2016 Cash Game Festival London has been a huge success with lots of action and fun throughout the day and evening. More than 10 tables are currently in action, with some of the players expressing they plan to play through the night.
The festival welcome players at 5:00 p.m. with welcome drinks where many old faces from previous Cash Game Festivals got a chance to catch up along with meeting some new faces as well.
Shortly later, the first televised feature table kicked off, which featured Cash Game Festival co-founder Martin "Franke" von Zweigbergk, Cash Game Festival veteran Jack Fenton, and SlotsMillion pro Maret Komarova. As will be the case every day throughout the festival, the first table was low stakes at £1/£2 no-limit hold'em. Komarova was one of the biggest winners on the feature table thanks to her pocket aces holding in a hand that saw seven players to the flop.
By the time the first feature table ended, there were 15 no-limit hold'em and pot-limit Omaha tables in play.
After a short break, the second televised feature table began with stakes at £2/£5. France's Julien Rouxel was the big winner on the feature table. He bought in for £1,500 on the uncapped table and walked away with four-times this amount for about £6,000.
As the weekend approaches, many more players are expected in action tomorrow. Players with the hospitality package will be competing off the felts in a darts competition at Flight Club Darts at 2:00 p.m.
Many other players will likely be enjoying the delights of London and of course at the casino playing some ring game action. Live streaming is scheduled at lower stakes at 5:30 p.m. and higher stakes at 8:30 p.m. on a 20 minute delay.
Stay tuned at PokerNews for the next four days as we report some of the hottest action at the Cash Game Festival London.
Feature Table Wrapping Up
The televised feature table just ended and the streaming will be over for Day 1 in 15 minutes. Players wanted to continue to play at the same stakes and were moved to a fresh table away from the cameras in the poker room.
More Photos!
More photos courtesy of Vita Pictura Productions.
Brendon Krabill Joins the Commentary Booth
Brendon Krabill just joined Brandon Allen in the commentary booth. Both Brendon and Brandon are originally from the United States and now live in Europe. Krabill has been at every Cash Game Festival this year as a player after getting hooked when it first came to London in March. This isn't the first time Krabill has provided commentary as he previously joined Allen in the booth last month in Bulgaria.
Braun Häkan Joins the Feature Table
Sweden's Braun Häkan just sat down in seat 5 on the £2/£5 no-limit hold'em televised feature table, taking the vacated spot left by Poland's Marcin Sobolewski.
Pocket Rockets First Hand For Nickolay J. Petrov
During the Cash Game Festival Bulgaria that took place last month, local player Nickolay J. Petrov won the high-hand jackpot for hold'em during the last hour of the festival by nailing a royal flush. Both him and Sweden's Peter La Terra, who won the high-hand jackpot for Omaha, recently joined in on the action. Both players are here compliments of the house on a VIP package thanks to the jackpots.
There will be two more VIP jackpots awarded this festival for the high hands in both Omaha and hold'em and a third package will also be awarded with how to win the prize to be announced later in the festival.
Petrov began the day in fine fashion sitting down next to Cash Game Festival co-founder Martin "Franke" von Zweigbergk on a £1/£2 no-limit hold'em table. The duo battled it out on Petrov's first hand. With £30 already in the pot from preflop betting action, "Franke" bet the on a 
flop and Petrov shoved. "Franke" called and turned over 
for a straight-flush draw while Petrov exposed 
for an over-pair.
The 
appeared on the turn giving Petrov two pair and needing to sweat 12 outs on the river. The 
completed the board and Petrov began his journey to London with a double-up.
Petrov shared with PokerNews that he learned about the Cash Game Festival thanks to it visiting his home country. He appeared grateful to come to London thanks to winning the high-hand jackpot and shared that this was his first visit to the British capital. He also added that he is very impressed with the poker room at Aspers Casino.
Waiting Lists and What's on Tap
If you are in town and thinking of coming on down, the action keeps picking up. In addition to the 15 tables running, "Phil" from Aspers Casino shared that a £5/£10 no-limit hold'em game is expected to kick off tonight and that there is a waiting list for some mixed games.
Also, "Phil" shared that some £1/£3 no-limit hold'em tables should pop-up soon on top of the £1/£1, £1/£2 and £2/£5 tables already running.
More Photos From Day 1
Photos courtesy of Vita Pictura Productions.
Feature Table #2 Begins!
The second and final feature table of the day has kicked off and you can watch the action on the Cash Game Festival website, on the Cash Game Festival Twitch channel, and here on PokerNews.
Here is a look at the players to start off the action on the £2/£5 no-limit hold'em televised feature table:
In seat 1 is UK's Eric Le Goff who is no stranger to games big games having played $25/$50 and winning a pot of about $10,000 in Las Vegas. This is his first time on a televised feature table with his strategy being to "just play my game."
David Kappel who was on the first feature table returns again for some higher stakes action. Next to Kappel is James Simms who describes himself as an ex poker pro when he lived in Barcelona and now a pro horse gambler. He was once on a televised feature table during EPT London Season 10 and shared his strategy is to play "aggressive and crazy" and that he is "not nervous."
Next to Simms are Italy's Riccardo Suriano and Poland's Marcin Sobolewski. Two more Italian players in Mauro Suriano and Alex Donato are in seats 6 & 7, while France's Julien Rouxel rounds off the table. Rouxel has also done some damage playing tournaments with over $130,000 in winnings.