2017 Cash Game Festival Tallinn (Spring)

2017 Cash Game Festival Tallinn
Day: 2

PLO Feature Table Begins

Andres Abakanov
Andres Abakanov

The first televised feature table of the day has just kicked off. You can check out the action at the Cash Game Festival Twitch channel and at PokerNews by clicking on the Live Stream tab.

The stakes for the early game are €1/€2 pot-limit Omaha. Here is a look at the players starting off on the table.

Andres Abakanov, in Seat 1, might not be well known around the world but is well known in his home country of Estonia. He recently appeared on three final tables during side events in the Estonian Championship last week and has over $77,000 in career tournament cashes despite never hauling in a five-digit or more score.

Finland's Roni Blomberg, in Seat 2, is the Chief Operating Officer of a financial technology company. The 29-year old has been playing for more than a decade and shared that he takes pride in "being able to adapt to the game on yearly basis with limited time available to play."

Estonian freelancer Kert Hallik is in Seat 3. He shared he is not nervous despite this being his first televised poker experience. He explained his biggest poker achievement was being the 2015 Estonian Championship Mixed Max winner.

In Seat 4 is another local player, Vitali Filonov. Despite being 29 years of age, Filonov only began playing poker a couple of years ago and is a little nervous about appearing on the feature table.

Next to Filonov is fellow countrymates Rain Mölderkivi in Seat 5 and Taivo in Seat 6 who works for Triobet sponsored by Betsafe, one of the sponsors of the festival.

Finland's Jussi Mattila, in Seat 7 has been playing poker for more than two decades and perhaps due to his experience explained he was not nervous about being on the feature table.

Estonia's Viacheslav is back in action on Seat 8. He was yesterday's biggest feature table winner taking down almost €700. Time will tell if he can repeat his magic in back to back days to start the 2017 Cash Game Festival Tallinn.