Day 1 of the 2017 Cash Game Festival Tallinn at Olympic Park Casino has been a huge success.
The day began with welcome drinks. Immediately after began a €1/€2 no-limit hold'em feature table. Players were enjoying the action so much, instead of having two feature tables the festival organizers extended the original feature table to 5 1/2 hours of play.
Viacheslav was the biggest winner on the feature table, taking home almost €700 in profit. Cash Game Festival regular Niklas Blomqvist also was one of the winners with a tidy profit of €150.
Other players from previous Cash Game Festivals got into the action on the first day and plan on playing through the evening including Lithuania's Karolis, Finnish poker player Mika Halmetoja and Finnish comedian Veli-Matti Puumala.
At 1 a.m., the action was still running strong with seven tables in action. Many players shared they plan to play through the evening.
Tomorrow's activities off the felt begin early with a day at the gun range. In the evening, players with the hospitality package will be heading to a VIP dinner.
Stay tuned at PokerNews as the action unfolds through the 2017 Cash Game Festival Tallinn.
Marius Morel just walked in the door and shared he was looking to get in on no-limit hold'em action as fast as possible. A seat just opened up at a €2/€2 table seconds later he was ready for action.
Morel may not be a household name around the world, but his recent success in the Estonian Championship has made him somewhat a local legend. In back to back days last week, he claimed two trophies after winning two Estonian Championship side events for over €7,000. On top of this, he appeared on the final table in the Estonian Championship Main Event, but fell short of the podium finishing in seventh place for over €2,600.
Two months before, he also appeared on three final tables in the OlyBet Kings of Tallinn series in February 2017. Unlike the Estonian Championship, he was unable to find the winner's circle.
Following two successful stops this year in London and Nova Gorica, Slovenia, the Cash Game Festival is about to kick off its third stop of 2017 at Olympic Park Casino in Tallinn, Estonia for five days of nonstop cash game poker on April 26-30.
Tallinn holds a special place in Cash Game Festival history as it is where the festival planted its roots with its first two stops in 2014 and 2015. The following year, the festival transformed into an international tour in 2016 with stops in London (twice), Malta and Bulgaria before wrapping the year off back in Tallinn once again.
The festival expects a full house and to attract many players from the Baltics and Scandinavia. Additionally, there will be around 10 players attending the festival thanks to Cash Game Festival VIP packages they won online at Triobet powered by Betsafe and Nordicbet. In total, there are 10 tables set up in the poker room for players will be able to enjoy a variety of poker variants at different stakes.
Each day, Brandon Allen will host the two televised feature tables and players will also have plenty of opportunities to enjoy themselves away from the poker felt with plenty of fun activities planned by the festival organizers. Early today, many players have been witnessed around the town enjoying the almost perfect weather and shared they are looking forward to shuffling chips on the tables.
The Cash Game Festival Tallinn officially kicks off at 5:30 p.m. EEST (3:30 p.m. BST) with welcome drinks inside the poker room. Shortly afterward, the first of two daily televised tables start at 5:40 p.m. EEST (3:40 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 as well as will be broadcasted across multiple media outlets including PokerNews.
Later in the day, there will also be a second higher stakes televised feature table on a 20-minute delay at 8:40 p.m. EEST (6:40 p.m. EEST).
There are plenty of other activities planned for the players that won packages to the event and players purchasing the hospitality package including a trip to a gun range, a disc golf challenge, a city tour, a world-class dinner and a VIP party.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews Live Reporting team will be covering the festival with player interviews and recaps each day during the festival.
