Welcome to Day 1 of the 2017 Cash Game Festival at Casino Malta by Olympic Casino

Following four successful stops this year in London, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, Tallinn and Gibraltar, the Cash Game Festival is about to kick off its fifth stop of 2017 at Casino Malta by Olympic Casino for five days of nonstop cash game poker on June 14-18.

Casino Malta by Olympic Casino is Malta's newest casino opening its doors last year. It is located in the heart of Malta's vibrant nightlife. The festival will take place on the main casino floor with the possibility of it expanding into the poker room.

Most of the tables will likely be no-limit hold'em and pot limit Omaha, any game requested including super dealer's choice 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.

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 from past festivals have been witnessed around town and at the beach enjoying the what some have described as the ideal weather. All the players we ran into shared their enthusiasm 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 game changes to €1/€2 pot-limit Omaha 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 catamaran trip, a world-class dinner and a VIP party.