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Cash Game Festival Bulgaria Winery Tasting Trip
Day 2 of the 2017 Cash Game Festival Bulgaria at Platinum Casino has been a huge success. The action was hot and strong with the poker room full with 12 tables of action.
The day began for some with a trip to the Stratsin Winery for wine tasting. Right before players left for the event, Cash Game Festival co-founder Martin "Franke" von Zweigbergk, Kadi Kask, Petra Poola and Madli Karner drove up in a Slowball car they drove down the past few days from Finland to Bulgaria. Slowball is another project von Zweigbergk is involved with and it involved 18 old cars transformed into pieces of art before being driven around Estonia, Sweden and Finland last week.
Players were able to taste six different types of local wines from the winery along being treated with snacks. Players were also treated to a bottle of wine of their choice to bring home along with the possibility of being able to purchase more.
The poker action was bigger during Day 2 this year than at the same festival that took place at Platinum Casino last year. While most of the action was no-limit hold'em with stakes ranging from €1/€2 to €2/€5, there was also action in pot-limit Omaha as high as €2/€5 and in €1/€2 Sviten Special.
There were no huge winners at the feature table during Day 2 as chips were being spread around between the players. Poland's Daniel Palys was the biggest winner on the early feature table while Bulgaria's Ivo Petrov Ivanov was the biggest winner on the later feature table.
Tomorrow players with the hospitality package will be attending go-carting at 1 p.m. Other players will enjoy the weather at the beach or head to the casino to play poker. Some might even be playing poker from the night before.
Stay tuned at PokerNews as we bring you more coverage of the 2017 Cash Game Festival Bulgaria.
Nobody won or lost a ton of money on the first feature table that just ended. United Kingdom's Peter Cox lost the most money notching a loss of approximately €200.
He was all smiles coming off the table before joining the stream for the last few minutes to commentate on his own play. He shared with PokerNews after the stream that, "I am very happy with my play despite not being able to win any hands at showdown."
Meanwhile, it was Poland's Daniel Palys notching a profit of around €100 that won the most on the early feature table with several other players notching smaller wins.
The feature table is currently on a break while the €2/€5 no-limit hold'em game is being set-up.
Welcome to Day 2 of the 2017 Cash Game Festival Bulgaria at Platinum Casino in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria.
It is hard to determine when Day 1 ended and Day 2 began with games running to the wee hours of the morning including seven tables as late as 5 a.m.
Others decided to get some rest on the first day to prepare for the second day and beyond of the poker festival. Those with the hospitality package met at 1 p.m. for a trip to the Stratsin Winery to enjoy an afternoon with snacks while tasting six different types of wine.
Among those were in attendance were Cash Game Festival co-founder Martin "Franke" von Zweigbergk, Petra Poola and Kadi Kask who came via a Slowball car from Finland just in time to make the trip. If you aren't familiar with Slowball, it was an art on wheels festival where old cars were renovated and then transformed into pieces of art by Northern European artists before taking a trip last week through Estonia, Sweden and Finland.
Yesterday's poker action was a huge success with eight cash game tables full of action running for hours a time. While there were many big winners thoughout the poker room, it was United Kingdom's James Simms winning the biggest amount of the early televised feature table, while local Bulgarian Miroslav Georgiev won even more on the later televised feature table.
Cash Game Festival host Brandon Allen will once again host two televised feature tables with co-hosts popping in and out of the booth. The first table kicks off at 5:40 p.m. local time and will be streamed on a 20-minute delay with stakes at €1/€2 no-limit 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 higher-stakes no-limit hold'em televised feature table on a 20-minute delay at 8:40 p.m. local time.
The PokerNews Live Reporting team is on hand until at least when the second feature table is completed to report on all the excitement during Day 2.
