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2 days to London – Cash Game Poker Tournament at Aspers Casino

March 28, 2016

Cash Game Festival has landed!

April 1, 2016

Published by Alexander Nilsson on March 31, 2016

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After hosting the first three events in the beautiful city of Tallinn, the team behind Cash Game Festival contemplated to expand the concept outside of Estonia during 2016. Soon it was decided that Aspers Casino Stratford in London would mark the launch of this ambitious plan. And when the first day finally arrived of this five day action packed poker festival, we couldn’t have asked for much more.
Several hours before the official kickoff and the first live streamed table, there were games running on nine different tables ranging from £1/£1 to £5/£10 and the festival was off to a flying start. With the late night stream hosting a £10/£25 NLH game the players and Twitch viewers could look forward to a great first evening with high expectations. At around 1am when the second TV table was coming to an end, the poker room at Aspers was running 22 simultaneous tables, double the capacity of a regular Wednesday night.
The first live session was a standard £1/£3 NLH with a full table battling it out for two hours, with nobody going bust. Local player José bought in for the highest amount with £1500 and also managed to muscle out the biggest profit with almost 400bb. On the losing side Chris Yong dropped the most, losing roughly £1320 (340bb). On the high stakes setup we saw the English players Matt Moss (over 600bb) and the publicly more well known Alex Goulder (400bb+) as huge winners, whilst Nariman Rad had an unlucky evening losing close to 600bb.
The London festival also is the first opportunity for the iPoker network to try the Six-Plus Hold’em in a live environment. From what we could tell from feedback and the brave bunch trying it out, it will probably be a game that can pick up momentum when more players have been introduced to it. Most definitely it’s a game for two carded action junkies that builds bigger pots similar to PLO. Also being introduced are cash game tournaments played as 8-max single table sit’n’gos with a 120min clock. The chip leader at the end of each session wins the predefined tournament prize money acting as a side bet.
Make sure to visit Aspers Casino London during the festival if you are curious to try these games out. You can show your interest or secure a seat for all poker variations that are being played by pre-registering online here.
Finally we want to send out a special thank you to our poker room partners at 888poker, Guts, NordicBet and OlyBet and wish their qualifying players good luck!
See you all at the tables!

For more pictures from day 1 make sure to check out our Facebook gallery here.