Despite many players heading over across the street to play ping-pong, the number of tables in the poker festival keeps rising. A £2/£5 no-limit hold'em game just launched bringing us to 13 tables. Currently that is the highest stakes game running with maybe the only exception being the £5 a point pineapple open-face Chinese poker game.
Action will get bigger both in stakes and number of tables as the evening approaches.
Austrian footballer Mario and British university student Mark Wraith are back at it again battling it out heads-up for £5 a point in pineapple open-face Chinese poker.
To add a little more excitement, one player of the duo during each deal playing two hands while the other is playing one hand.
Meanwhile, many players are heading across the street to enjoy ping-pong games and tournaments starting in five minutes.
Today's action is picking up fast as we are now up to 11 tables. All the tables until now on Day 3 were at £1/£1 and £1/£2 no-limit hold'em and pot-limit Omaha. However, a higher-stakes £5/£10 no-limit hold'em game has just been announced and players are now taking their seats.
Welcome to Day 3 of the 2016 Cash Game Festival London at Aspers Casino Westfield Stratford City. During the first two days, the festival has generated tons of excitement peaking at 22 ring-game tables in a wide-variety stakes and poker variants including no-limit hold'em, dealer's choice pot-limit Omaha, pineapple open-face Chinese poker, and six-plus hold'em.
The action has been running 24 hours a day since kicking off on Wednesday with many players taking advantage of the excitement by partaking in marathon poker sessions.
Today the action is expected to be the hottest yet, with festival organizers predicting early on in the evening to easily break the record of the most ring game tables in Cash Game Festival history.
To add to the already fun atmosphere, players today can compete off the felts and on the ping-pong tables with three-hours of games and tournaments running across the street starting at 4 p.m. BST.
As has been the case during the first two days, a feature table will present some of the most fun and exciting ring-games taking place at the festival. You can check out today's live stream on the Cash Game Festival Twitch channel.
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Stay tuned at PokerNews as our Live Reporting Team is on hand in London to report some of the highlight's of today's festivities.
