The 2017 Cash Game Festival Gibraltar Is About to Begin

Following three successful stops this year in London, Nova Gorica, Slovenia and Tallinn, the Cash Game Festival is about to kick off its fourth stop of 2017 at Sunborn Casino in Gibraltar for five days of nonstop cash game poker on May 17-21.

Sunborn Casino is located on a seven-story yacht which acts as a hotel and casino. The festival will take place in the downstairs ballroom, which will host more than 10 tables simultaneously.

Most of the tables will likely be no-limit hold'em and pot-limit Omaha, any game requested will be catered to by the festival's organizers and casino's staff.

Past festivals have included super dealer's choice where any game goes, open-face Chinese Poker, Sviten Special (also known as Drawmaha) and variations of super stud high-low which have included wild cards. There have even been games played where players put cards on their heads and can only see their opponents' cards and not their own.

Additionally, there will be a handful of players attending the festival thanks to Cash Game Festival VIP packages they won online at Betsafe and Guts.

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 tables with plenty of fun activities planned by the festival organizers. Early today, many players have been witnessed around both Gibraltar and the border towns in Spain enjoying the almost perfect weather with some sharing they are anxious to play poker later in the day.

The Cash Game Festival Gibraltar officially kicks off at 5:30 p.m. CEST (4:30 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. CEST (4:40 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.

The stakes are planned to go up to £5/£5 no-limit hold'em for the second feature table later in the day. This table will also be broadcasted on a 20-minute delay at 8:40 p.m. CEST (7:40 p.m. BST).

There are plenty of other activities planned for the players that won packages to the event and players purchasing the hospitality package including a dolphin and whale sightseeing boat trip, a city tour, a world-class dinner and a VIP party.