The action for the £2/£5 no-limit hold'em feature table is expected to be big with just about everyone buying in for at least £1,000 and a couple of players buying in for around £2,000 and more.
United Kingdom software developer who asked to be referred to as just Jason sits in Seat 1. He bought in for £1,600 and shared his favorite hand is jack-eight offsuit.
Poland's Michael Kiela is in Seat 2 and shared he is "nervous as hell" about the appearing on the feature table despite playing poker for about a decade and this not being his first televised poker table.
United Kingdom IT professional Eric Le Goff is in Seat 3 and he also played on the feature table yesterday.
Bulgaria's Nikolay Bibov in Seat 4 was the only player not to buy into the game for at least 200 big blinds with £650 in front of him when the first cards were dealt. Bibov's favorite hand is ten-eight offsuit.
Jack Fenton is one chair over in Seat 5. Fenton supports himself through poker and has now attended six straight Cash Game Festivals. He earlier shared that he will be going to Cash Game Festival Slovenia in a couple of weeks and hopes to hit each of the at least 10 festivals this year.
France's [Removed:16] in Seat 6 bought in for the deepest stack of £2,500. The 20-year old has been playing poker since he turned 18 and shared he is not nervous about appearing on the feature table.
Shah Raza in Seat 7 is an Aspers Casino regular and rounding the table out in Seat 8 is Romania's Gabriel Tuna, who appeared on yesterday's feature table.
The second feature table of the day just kicked off. Players are playing no-limit hold'em with blinds at £2/£5. You can watch the action commentated by Brandon Allen on the Cash Game Festival Twitch channel or here on PokerNews.
Well-known poker blogger and commentator Marc Convey recently embarked on a new media consultancy business venture with his partners James Beer and Jason Riahi.
The business partners were already in the neighborhood and decided to have a little fun on a £1/£1 no-limit hold'em table.
Aspers Casino poker ambassador Peter Cabby Burgon left the televised feature table and is now in the broadcasting booth with Cash Game Festival host Brandon Allen.
On the far end of the poker room there are two players playing something that resembled rummy, but looked a bit different. The duo informed us that they were playing Kalookie, which is a two-deck variant of rummy and often also includes wild cards.
While not many poker players still play rummy and probably even less than that ever played rummy, one of the biggest names in the history of poker in three-time WSOP Main Event Champ Stu Unger was also known as known as one of the best rummy players in the world.
At 9 p.m. GMT, Aspers Casino will be randomly awarding two Cash Game Festival Slovenia packages valued at €1,400 each for the next festival March 8-12.
Throughout the 2017 Cash Game Festival London, players that have been winning a hand with four of a kind in any cash game have been awarded one raffle ticket, players winning a hand with a straight flush have been awarded two raffle tickets, while players that won a hand with a royal flush were awarded three tickets. Two hole cards need to be used in the winning hand to win tickets.
Another draw will take also take place on Sunday where two more players with win packages to Slovenia.
The early £1/£2 feature table already appears to be a big action table. Here is a look at who is on the table.
In Seat 1 is Ireland's Peter Cabby Burgon, who got into poker a year ago and is now an Aspers Casino ambassador. He is the brains behind the Let's Play Poker UK Facebook page which exclusively focuses on events at Aspers Casino.
England's Manoj Mohindra in Seat 2 is making his second trip to this festival's feature table. He shared that he loves poker not just because of the game but also because he gets to constantly meet new people.
Italy's Filippo Ragone in Seat 3 is a sales assistant by day. He shared he is not nervous despite this being his first televised poker experience and just starting to play the game two years ago.
Fellow Italian Alessandro Taranto is next to his countrymate in Seat 4. He shared his favorite hold'em hand is .
England's Nav Khambay in Seat 5 is a property developer that began playing poker three years ago. Although he has enjoyed cash games during this time, he has also had success with multiple final tables while competing in local live events in London as well.
In Seat 6 is England's Raj Panesar. Pocket queens is his favorite hand and he shared he is not nervous even though this is his first experience playing in from of the lights and cameras.
Malaysia's Jonathan Yong in Seat 7 is a sociology student who has been playing poker for more than seven years. He shared that he loves to get some action whenever he is holding jack-ten suited.
Rounding the table out in Seat 8 is Romania's Gabriel Tuna. He has been playing poker for a decade and like many players his favorite hand is pocket rockets.
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