Life is good for NordicBet player Jon Kyte. He won the Nordic Championships in Prague in December for €240,000 and has had a Cash Game Festival to remember despite being on the losing end of a £13,800 pot on Day 1.
He was the big winner at the feature table for the second time this festival this time logging in a profit of £6,500 or 650 big blinds at the £5/£10 no-limit hold'em table.
Kyte has agreed to an interview on Facebook live on Day 5 where we will learn more about his breakout year last year and his plans for 2018 and beyond.
The biggest feature table of the festival just began with stakes at £10/£25 no-limit hold'em. Many of the players are familiar from earlier feature tables. Here is a look at the line-up.
Will Fasano, in Seat 1, appeared on last night's £5/£10 no-limit hold'em feature table and has been playing poker for three years. His claim to fame is one of the biggest names in online poker will not sit at a table with him.
Harry Lodge, in Seat 2, is a well-known player in the United Kingdom with almost $1 million in live tournament cashes as tracked by The Hendon Mob.
Ben Morrison, in Seat 3, is making his second feature table appearance this festival. He has been playing poker for four years and shared his favorite hand is pocket rockets.
Sam Miller, in Seat 4, is thus far the biggest winner at any of the feature tables after booking a profit of £5,775 or 1,155 big blinds in a £2/£5 pot-limit Omaha game. Much of this came in an epic pot of almost £14,000 against Jon Kyte, who is out for revenge sitting one seat over in Seat 5.
Schwan Pauls, in Seat 6, is making his second feature table appearance this festival. He has been playing poker for five years and until this festival never played under lights and cameras.
Eddie Anderson, in Seat 7, has been playing poker for just two years. This hasn't made him shy away from playing against the big guns in a higher-stakes game. Rounding off the action is a player that asked to just be called Mo in Seat 8.
You check out each hand on a 20-minute delay on the televised feature table on the Cash Game Festival Twitch channel and within our PokerNews coverage by clicking on the Live Stream tab.
The £1/£2 no-limit hold'em women's only table has just ended. Betsafe Ambassador Monika "HeyMonia" Zukowicz was winning the most throughout almost the entire stream.
However, after giving some chips back to her opponents, it was Caroline Cove who rose to the top to book a profit of £124 or 62 big blinds.
The feature table is now being set-up for some high-stakes action. We will share the line-up shortly after the action begins.
The stakes remaining the same at £1/£2 no-limit hold'em for the feature table that just began, however, there is one major difference as this session is a ladies-only affair.
Dawn Cook, in Seat 1, has been playing poker for eight years. This is her first Cash Game Festival feature table experience but not her time under the lights and cameras while playing poker. Cook is an assistant principal at a college and her best achievement in poker is "still being able to play and enjoy it."
Anne Loughlin, in Seat 2, has been involved in the casino business for the past 20 years with the last few being involved in accounting. She has been involved in poker for more than a decade and was hooked into the game ever since she won her first-ever poker tournament.
Eva Ilseng, in Seat 3, was close to winning on poker's biggest stage after taking 10th place in the 2016 WSOP Women's Event. Her success came despite her being relatively new to the game with only playing poker for three years.
Marianna Kovalyova, in Seat 4, is one of the more experienced players at the table having played poker for more than a decade. Her biggest achievement was once winning an online tournament for $18,000.
Betsafe Ambassador Monika "HeyMonia" Zukowicz, in Seat 5, is veteran of the Cash Game Festival now attending seven festivals. She is well-known for streaming online poker tournaments and was warming up for cash games last night playing on a side table for hours.
Romania's Daniela Manea, in Seat 6, is a personal banker by trade. She normally plays tournaments in her home country but does enjoy to dabble in cash games for variety from time to time such as today.
Caroline Cove, in Seat 7, has been playing poker for 11 years and described her best poker achievement being that she is still playing after all this time.
Cat Winch-Johnson is one of the better known female players in Europe and has experienced success both in online and live poker.
You check out each hand on a 20-minute delay on the televised feature table on the Cash Game Festival Twitch channel and within our PokerNews coverage by clicking on the Live Stream tab.
The action was flying around at the early £1/£2 no-limit hold'em feature table and it was 32Red qualifier Mick Smith that performed the best booking a healthy profit of £474 or 237 big blinds.
The women's only table is currently being set up and is scheduled to go live on the stream at 6 p.m.
For the fourth time, the Cash Game Festival will be awarding a trophy to the player that wins the most big blinds at any of the feature tables during the festival. In addition, the winning player will be awarded a hospitality package valued at €200 to the next Cash Game Festival at Banco Casino on April 4-8.
Currently, Sam Miller is the man to beat after winning a huge profit of £5,775 or 1,155 big blinds during Day 1's late £2/£5 pot-limit Omaha feature table. There are still five feature tables left to go, so the big prize and perhaps, more importantly, the prestige of winning the trophy, is still up for grabs.
Here is a look at the big winners of the first six feature tables.
Three of the players at the special early £1/£2 no-limit hold'em feature table qualified to the Cash Game Festival London via the Cash Game Festival's newest partner 32Red.
Angus Dunnington, in Seat 2, is a 32Red Poker ambassador. He is not a man you would likely want to face in chess unless you play on a professional level as in addition to poker being a passion he is a national chess master and has authored countless chess books.
One seat over is Latvia's Edgars Armans in Seat 3. He qualified into the festival through a promotion at 32Red Poker and is having a blast during his first Cash Game Festival despite him admitting luck has not been on his side at the tables.
In Seat 5, is the third 32Red Poker player, Mick Smith. Smith, aged 53, may be a man to watch as he has been playing poker for more than two decades.
Here is a look at some of the other players:
Norwegian construction worker and NordicBet player Vidar Dugstad is sitting next to the dealer in Seat 1. He has been playing poker for two years and shared he has been printing money at the Cash Game Festival London.
Cash Game Festival veteran Master Soi from Norway is in Seat 4. Soi loves playing any game and having fun. His family owns a Korean restaurant that other players have raved about.
Romania's George Badescu is in Seat 5. He is a former poker dealer, so we will see if his time dealing cards translates into playing cards.
Estonia's Kaido Mikk, in Seat 7, has appeared at Cash Game Festival feature tables in the past and always comes across as a strong player. He is in London thanks for winning a package to the festival during the last Cash Game Festival in Tallinn in November.
Denmark's Ronni Borg rounds off the action in Seat 8. He last appeared on a Cash Game Festival feature table in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria in August.
Henry Kilbane and George Sandford will be hosting the commentary for the early feature table before Ryan "Metalface" Davey takes over for the later stream.
Welcome to PokerNews' live coverage of Day 4 of the 2018 Cash Game Festival London at Aspers Casino Westfield Stratford City.
Yesterday was easily the biggest day of the festival thus far with poker room booming with activity with 24 tables running for hours. The games were all low to mid stakes and included no-limit hold'em, dealer's choice Omaha and Sviten Special.
The biggest games yesterday were played in £5/£10 no-limit hold'em including the late feature table which attracted many big cash game players including Jon Kyte, Terry Jordon, David Clarkson, Manoj Mohindra and Gang Wang.
Today is set to be even bigger in no small part due to for the first time in a long time the festival hosting three feature tables instead of the usual two and the casino hosting its monthly freeroll tournament to reward its highest volume cash game players.
Monika "HeyMonia" Zukowicz
The early televised feature table will be kicking off 3 p.m. on a 20-minute delay with stakes at £1/£2 no-limit hold'em. Straight after that at 6 p.m., there will be an entertaining women's only €1/€2 no-limit hold'em feature table featuring Betsafe Ambassador Monika "HeyMonia" Zukowicz and Cat Winch-Johnson. To wrap things off there will also be a higher-stakes £5/£10 no-limit hold'em feature table.
You check out each hand as it happens on the televised feature tables on the Cash Game Festival Twitch channel and within our PokerNews coverage by clicking on the Live Stream tab once the action kicks off. In the meantime, you can head to the Twitch channel to see some of the action from the previous three days.
Later in the night, players will the hospitality package will be heading to a VIP party. Previous activities included a VIP dinner at Cubana yesterday and a trip to a trampoline park on Thursday.
Coverage will kick off at around 2:30 p.m. GMT and continue throughout the day and evening. Stay tuned at PokerNews as we report the latest and greatest news from the 2018 Cash Game Festival London.
