Welcome to Day 1 of the 2017 Cash Game Festival Tallinn at Olympic Park Casino
Following two successful stops this year in London and Nova Gorica, Slovenia, the Cash Game Festival is about to kick off its third stop of 2017 at Olympic Park Casino in Tallinn, Estonia for five days of nonstop cash game poker on April 26-30.
Tallinn holds a special place in Cash Game Festival history as it is where the festival planted its roots with its first two stops in 2014 and 2015. The following year, the festival transformed into an international tour in 2016 with stops in London (twice), Malta and Bulgaria before wrapping the year off back in Tallinn once again.
The festival expects a full house and to attract many players from the Baltics and Scandinavia. Additionally, there will be around 10 players attending the festival thanks to Cash Game Festival VIP packages they won online at Triobet powered by Betsafe and Nordicbet. In total, there are 10 tables set up in the poker room for players will be able to enjoy a variety of poker variants at different stakes.
Each day, Brandon Allen will host the two televised feature tables and players will also have plenty of opportunities to enjoy themselves away from the poker felt with plenty of fun activities planned by the festival organizers. Early today, many players have been witnessed around the town enjoying the almost perfect weather and shared they are looking forward to shuffling chips on the tables.
The Cash Game Festival Tallinn officially kicks off at 5:30 p.m. EEST (3:30 p.m. BST) with welcome drinks inside the poker room. Shortly afterward, the first of two daily televised tables start at 5:40 p.m. EEST (3:40 p.m. BST) and will be streamed on a 20-minute delay with stakes at €1/€2 no-limit hold'em on the Cash Game Festival Twitch channel as well as will be broadcasted across multiple media outlets including PokerNews.
Later in the day, there will also be a second higher stakes televised feature table on a 20-minute delay at 8:40 p.m. EEST (6:40 p.m. EEST).
There are plenty of other activities planned for the players that won packages to the event and players purchasing the hospitality package including a trip to a gun range, a disc golf challenge, a city tour, a world-class dinner and a VIP party.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews Live Reporting team will be covering the festival with player interviews and recaps each day during the festival.