The 2017 Cash Game Festival Tallinn at Olympic Park Casino from April 26-30 was a huge success both on and off the poker tables.
Each day during the festival, Cash Game Festival Commentator Brandon Allen hosted two feature tables. The first table was a lower stakes affair before the stakes moved higher for the later stream.
Among the bigger winners were Estonian poker player and coach Mark Joa who banked a profit of nearly €3,000 during one 2 1/2 televised session of €5/€10 no-limit hold'em on Day 3 and was the big winner again with €2,000 in profit at the same game and stakes during the late feature table on Day 5.
Also winning big during the festival was 26-year old Spanish poker pro David Huerga Hierro who won €2,300 on the same table of Jua's first huge win on Day 3 and more during other streams and side tables.
Of course, there was tons of hold'em and Omaha played. Sviten Special also made an appearance as did a €5/€5 super dealer's choice game in back to back nights on Day 3 and Day 4 which included Finnish variations of super-stud high-low with wild cards, three to five board Omaha, pyramid Omaha, Indian head poker and more.
Activities off the felt were equally amazing to the action at the poker tables. The festival began with welcome drinks at the casino. The following day, poker players were treated to an afternoon at the gun range before heading to a VIP dinner in the evening. On Day 3, players were invited to a spectacular VIP party at the casino. Day 4 featured a disc golf competition, which was won by Cash Game Festival veteran Peter La Terra. On the final day of the festival, players visited the Estonian Maritime Museum.
The success at the Cash Game Festival Tallinn followed two great festivals earlier this year at Aspers Casino in London during February and at Perla Casino in Nova Gorica, Slovenia in March.
Cash Game Festival Gibraltar May 17-21
Next up is the first stop in Cash Game Festival history to Gibraltar from May 17-21 at Sunborn Casino. According to Cash Game Festival organizers, this festival promises to be one of the biggest festivals in Cash Game Festival history. It was shared with PokerNews that, "activities both on and off the tables will be crazy and out of this world."
Mark Joa was the biggest winner of the final feature table of the 2017 Cash Game Festival Tallinn. He booked a profit of over €2,000 in a 2 1/2 hour session of €5/€10 no-limit hold'em.
The stakes moved up on the late feature table from the planned €2/€5 no-limit hold'em game to €5/€10 after all the players expressed an interest in playing a little higher.
Poker coach and player Mark Joa from Estonia, in Seat 1, has already notched one big win on a feature table stream during this Cash Game Festival and is looking to do it again to close things out.
The next three seats are also occupied by Estonians including Rauno Tipner, Urmo and Erki Anderssoo.
Mexico's Alejandro is in Seat 5 followed by another pair of Estonians that have appeared on feature tables earlier in the festival including Andres and Karol Ottis.
Tauri Taimre has been consistently notching wins just about every day during the 2017 Cash Game Festival Tallinn.
He just did it again on the €1/€2 no-limit hold'em feature table. While he wasn't on the table the entire 2 1/2 hour session, he was the biggest winner at the table banking more than €1,000 in profit.
Taimre and the others at the feature table have moved to a side table while a bigger €2/€5 feature table is being set-up.
Welcome to Day 5 of the 2017 Cash Game Festival Tallinn at Olympic Park Casino.
For a handful of players, Day 4 never ended. At the time of writing this, there is still a table running from yesterday with players admitting they have been playing for at least the past 24 hours.
Others were grinding until the early hours before they decided to get some rest before heading back to the casino for a full day of a cash game grind.
Players with the hospitality package were in for a treat earlier in the day. Cash Game Festival Project Manager Andro Loos, who makes sure everything runs smoothly throughout every festival, took the crew to the Estonian Maritime Museum.
This unique structure was built 100 years ago when the country was occupied by the Russians as a seaplane hanger. The Estonian used it for the same purpose during their independence from around the time the first World War ended and 1940 when the Soviet Union took control of the facility.
The Soviets used the facility at that time for mostly storage and let the building dilapidate. It was not in great shape when Estonia became an independent country until it was recently restored and transformed into a unique museum.
The tour guide explained a bit of the history along with some of the different sea craft used over the years.
As is always the case during the Cash Game Festival, there will be two feature tables hosting by Brandon Allen.
The first table kicks off at 5:40 p.m. EEST (7:40 p.m. BST) and will be streamed on a 20-minute delay with stakes at €1/€2 no-limit hold'em on the Cash Game Festival Twitch channel and across multiple media outlets including PokerNews.
Later in the day, there will also be a higher-stakes no-limit hold'em televised feature table on a 20-minute delay at 8:40 p.m. EEST (6:40 p.m. BST).
Stay tuned as the PokerNews Live Reporting updates on who the biggest winners were and other happenings on the final day of the Cash Game Festival Tallinn.
