2018 Cash Game Festival London
Day 1 Completed
2018 Cash Game Festival London
2018 Cash Game Festival London
Day: 1
Sam Miller's Sick Win Headlines Day 1 of the 2018 Cash Game Festival
Day 1 of the 2018 Cash Game Festival London at Aspers Casino broke in the new year with a huge splash with tons of action and fun throughout the day and evening.
The day peaked with 15 tables running with many of them expected to run throughout the evening and into the morning. Games on the first day including no-limit hold'em, pot-limit Omaha and Sviten Special.
The festival began in the late afternoon with a welcome drinks ceremony with many players enjoying welcome drinks. However, many of the players couldn't wait for the official festival to begin with seven full tables already running before the ceremony.
Shortly after the welcome drinks ceremony began, the first televised feature table commenced with players battling it out in £2/£5 no-limit hold'em.
David Newson was the winner at the early feature table, commentated by Ryan "Metalface" Davey, after notching up £1,424 in profit or 284.8 big blinds. The amount of big blinds won is important since the person that wins the most big blinds during any feature table during the festival will walk away with a commemorative trophy and a hospitality package to the next Cash Game Festival.
The stakes stayed the same for the late feature table but the game changed to pot-limit Omaha featuring Jon Kyte, James Simms and Terry Jordon. Additionally, the action got much wilder.
However, it wasn't a member of this trio to perform the best. That honor belonged to Sam Miller who won £5,775 or 1,155 big blinds. This was all thanks to a huge pot when he won a huge pot of almost £14,000 against Kyte.
Players with the hospitality package will be enjoying an outing to a trampoline park in the early afternoon before heading back to the poker room for action at the tables.
Many other players will likely be enjoying the delights of British capital or getting into the action early in the day. As will be the case every day during the festival, live streaming is scheduled at lower stakes at 6:00 p.m. and higher stakes at 9:00 p.m. local time. You can watch all the action on the Cash Game Festival Twitch channel.
Stay tuned at PokerNews for the next four days as we report some of the hottest action at the Cash Game Festival London.
Sam Miller Nails Down a Huge Win
The £2/£5 pot-limit Omaha feature has just ended and Sam Miller walked away as the big winner after booking a profit of £5,775 or 1,155 big blinds.
Sam Miller Wins £14K in One of the Biggest Pots in Cash Game Festival History
A player limped before Sam Miller raised to £20 with 
. Another player called before Terry Jordon three-bet to £90 with 
.
Another player called before Jon Kyte four-bet to £400 with 
. Miller called before Jordon raised all-in for £673. Miller and Kyte called with the other two players getting out of the hand.
Miller led out for £1,500 on the 
flop and Kyte called. With the pot at £5,100 and Kyte with £4,300 behind was put to the test after Miller fired out a pot sized after the 
appeared on the turn. Kyte, with two-pair tanked for a while before calling.
While Kyte made the correct called as he was well-ahead before the river, it was Miller winning one of the biggest pots in Cash Game Festival history of £13,800.
Omaha Feature Table Photos
A Few Hands From the Sviten Special Streamed Live on Facebook
Sviten Makes 15
A £2/£2 Sviten Special table just opened featuring Cash Game Festival regulars Ryan Mullarkey and Ed Furniss.
There are now 15 tables in action or one away from the 16 tables that were running on Day 1 of the last Cash Game Festival London in September.
Jon Kyte and Terry Jordon Are Back
The £2/£5 pot-limit Omaha feature table just kicked off headlined by action-player
While many of the other players at the table are familiar to Cash Game Festival fans, one that will be a new face is American Arie Juliusburger in Seat 1. Juliusburger is not only making his first Cash Game Festival feature table experience but also playing in front of the lights and camera in general for the first time.
Local action player Terry Jordon, in Seat 2. Jordon is known for his charisma and for his dislike of folding any hand preflop regardless of the bets in front of him. The last Cash Game Festival he appeared multiple times with friend William Kassouf which led to a bit of a social media battle between the duo.
Lithuania's Ernestas Romeika, in Seat 3, isn't what we would classify as a tour veteran, however, he is now making back to back stops after also appearing at the feature table during the last Cash Game Festival in Tallinn in November.
Cash Game Festival regular James Simms is now making his fourth Cash Game Festival appearance. This is the third time Simms is visiting the festival at Aspers Casino which is nearby where he lives. This doesn't mean he isn't willing to travel as he also took a poker vacation to Sunny Beach, Bulgaria when the Cash Game Festival visited Platinum Casino in August.
Norway's Jon Kyte, in Seat 5, will go down in history as the first-ever Cash Game Festival trophy winner when he snagged on the last time the festival was in London in September. More recently he had hundreds of thousands of reasons to celebrate after lifting the trophy in the partypoker Nordic Poker Championships after winning the event for €240,000. He shared with PokerNews that he has his eyes on another trophy for his collection during this festival.
Poland's Bartosz Konopacki, in Seat 6, has been playing poker for four years and is now making his first Cash Game Festival feature table appearance.
Local player Parvis Tafreshi, in Seat 7, is also making his first feature table appearance. He shared he likes any starting hand in it that includes tens.
Sam Miller, in Seat 8 looks like he has been playing poker for a while, but shared that he has been only been playing for six months. He had his poker face on so we are not sure if we are being bluffed or not. He also shared that being on the feature table today is to date his best poker achievement.
Ryan "Metalface" Davey will once again be handling the play by play with guest commentators popping in and out of the booth. You can check out the action by clicking on the Live Stream tab in our coverage or by heading to the Cash Game Festival Twitch channel where you can also join in the chat.
David Newson First Feature Table Big Winner
The first Cash Game Festival feature table of the new year has just ended. David Newson kicked things off in style by winning £1,424 (284.8 big blinds), which represented the highest profit at the table.
The table has been moved to one of the side tables. The game on the next feature table is changing to £2/£5 pot-limit Omaha featuring Terry Jordon, Jon Kyte, James Simms and more. We will share the full line-up shortly after the game begins.
Photos From Around the Room on Day 1
