Day 1 of the 2017 Cash Game Festival Gibraltar at Sunborn 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, that festival organizers allowed many to return after a short-break. Most of the players did just that. Joining the action, however, was 2011 WSOP side event winner Hasan Alexander Anter.

Dom was the biggest winner on the feature table, taking home more than €800 in profit. However, there may be other players winning as big on side tables if not more including Betsafe Head of Poker Michael Robinson tripling up his buy-in in early action on the £2/£2 Sviten Special table.

Other players from previous Cash Game Festivals got into the action on the first day and plan on playing through the evening including John Scanlon, Janar Kokk, Veli-Matti Puumala, Niklas Blomqvist, Michael Michelin, Peter La Terra and Michael Fletcher.

Cash Game Festival co-founder Martin "Franke" von Zweigbergk also played for many hours on the Sviten Special table. He was first ahead proclaiming that, "I am amazing at Sviten Special" before he wound up losing a few buy-ins.

At after midnight., the action was still running strong with four tables in action. Many players shared they plan to play through the evening. The record for the most cash game tables running simultaneously at the casino is six and based off today's action a new casino record will likely be established before the festival is in the books.

Tomorrow's activities off the felt begin very early with a morning and afternoon whale and dolphin watching on a boat taking off about an hour away from Gibraltar in neighboring Spain. Players have been buzzing with excitement about the site seeing, while others plan to see some sites on the land on their own time instead before heading to the poker tables.

Stay tuned at PokerNews as the action unfolds through the 2017 Cash Game Festival Gibraltar.