Welcome to the 2018 Cash Game Festival Bulgaria
The Cash Game Festival has returned to Platinum Casino, located steps away from the sand and surf of the Black Sea in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria, for five days of non-stop poker action from Aug. 8-12.
The festival will feature tons of amazing poker action at stakes high and low. Most of the games will be in no-limit Texas hold'em, but any game players can think of will be made available including pot-limit Omaha, Sviten Special, and super dealer's choice.
Every day of the festival features two televised feature table at 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. EEST at the Cash Game Festival Twitch channel. We will also include the streams in our coverage and a few of them will be also broadcasted on the PokerNews Facebook channel.
PokerNews' Jason Glatzer and Cash Game Festival's Henry Kilbane along with plenty of entertaining guest hosts throughout the week. Many Cash Game Festival regulars, local regulars, and qualifiers from 32Red Poker, Unibet Poker and from other festivals are scheduled to compete in what promises to be exciting poker action.
Today's early feature table will be a €1/€3 no-limit affair. Among the players at the table will be 32Red qualifier Yohannes McAllister, Unibet Poker qualifier David Eriksson, and Unibet Poker Ambassador Rauno "Estonian Jesus" Tahvonen.
Tahvonen came into town last night and couldn't wait to play. He joined Cash Game Festival regular Peter La Terra and Cash Game Festival Marketing Manager Bjorne Lindberg, and Cash Game Festival CEO James Simms in a fun game of Sviten Special.
If you aren't familiar with Sviten Special, it combining both pot-limit Omaha and five card draw in the same game with players receiving five hole cards. Last night was Tahvonen's first time playing it and he plans to play more throughout the festival.
Tahvonen is typically a tournament player but has done well in cash game as well. He joked with us about appearing at the first feature table of the festival.
"I am so used to playing with a minimum of five cards now, but I will do my best to win in hold'em," said Tahvonen.
The game changes to €2/€2 pot-limit Omaha for the later feature table. Tahvonen will be back as will 32Red Poker qualifier Edgars Armans, who has amazingly won nine Cash Game Festival packages in freeroll tournaments at the online poker room.
Tahvonen believes he will do better at pot-limit Omaha even though he typically only plays hold'em in tournaments.
"I fancy my chances better at the four-card game, even though I usually never play it," said Tavhvonen.
The festival begins today at 6 p.m. EEST with welcome drinks at the casino.
Stay tuned at PokerNews as we cover the highlights of the 2018 Cash Game Festival Bulgaria.