2018 Cash Game Festival London
Day 4 Started
2018 Cash Game Festival London
2018 Cash Game Festival London
Day: 4
Three Feature Tables and a VIP Party Highlight Day 4 of the Cash Game Festival London
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.
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.
32Red Feature Table
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.
Eight Tables and a Cash Game Rewards Tournament
There are already eight tables in motion. This is impressive considering the hardest regular grinders at Aspers Casino are busy playing in a freeroll tournament where more than £72,000 is awarded. The action at the cash tables will pick up even more as players are eliminated from the tournament.
Who Will Win the Coveted Cash Game Festival Trophy?
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.
| Day | Player | Game | Profit | Big Blinds Won |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | David Newson | £2/£5 NLHE | £1,424 | 284.8 |
| Day 1 | Sam Miller | £2/£5 PLO | £5,775 | 1,155.0 |
| Day 2 | Jakub Stozek | £1/£2 NLHE | £398 | 199.0 |
| Day 2 | Jon Kyte | £2/£5 PLO | £4,260 | 852.0 |
| Day 3 | Alasdair Alexander | £1/£2 NLHE | £463 | 231.5 |
| Day 3 | David Clarkson | £5/£10 NLHE | £2,655 | 265.5 |
Franke's Back and So is the Sviten Special
Cash Game Festival's Martin "Franke" von Zweigbergk is in town and ready for action. He opened up a £1/£2 Sviten Special table along with Cash Game Festival Project Manager Andro Loos and Cash Game Festival regulars Ed Furniss and Peter La Terra.
There are now 12 cash tables running and more are opening up as the field is thinning in the Aspers Casino monthly freeroll which awards its most dedicated cash game players throughout the prior month.
Big Game Planned for Stream!
The £5/£10 no-limit hold'em 9 p.m. feature table has just been revamped into a £10/£25 no-limit hold'em feature table making it one of the biggest stakes feature tables in Cash Game Festival history. The full initial line-up for this table will be announced closer to start time.
Feature Table Photos
32Red Qualifier Mick Smith Wins Big
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.
Ladies Only Feature Table 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.