Day 3 Will Feature a Women Only Feature Table and a Packed House
Welcome to Day 3 of the 2017 Cash Game Festival Tallinn Fall Edition at Olympic Park Casino. The action yesterday throughout the day and evening was huge with 11 tables running at peak times and many of them running until the sun came up including a heads-up €5/€10 pot-limit Omaha match and a €5/€10 no-limit hold'em game featuring Cash Game Festival Commentator Andrew "Picasso" Hedley, Cash Game Festival Cofounder Enri Orav, Cash Game Festival regular Ryan Mullarkey and well-known Twitch sensation Espen Uhlen Jørstad.
Also running for hours on end was a €2/€2 super dealer's choice game where crazy games were played including with cards on players heads and games with multiple boards and wild cards. Among the players at this table were Cash Game Festival Cofounder Martin "Franke" von Zweigbergk, Peter La Terra and Jens "Dansken" Riis.
Yesterday, players that secured a Cash Game Festival Tallinn package through an online promotion or purchased the hospitality package were treated to an afternoon of painting. As a an added twist, they were learning how to paint nude models. Today players with the hospitality package will be treated to a VIP dinner.
The feature tables were full of excitement as well. Estonian footballer and Coolbet player Joel Lindpere, who has played for the New York Red Bulls and the Chicago Fire proved to his fans around the world he isn't just a star on the pitch but at the poker tables as well. He was the biggest winner at the first €2/€2 no-limit hold'em table with a profit of €424 or 212 big blinds.
Although Lindpere admitted that he hasn't played much Omaha, he decided to take a stab at the later €5/€5 pot-limit Omaha feature table and booked a small profit in that game as well.
However, yesterday's star was another player at the Omaha table in Finland's Lasse Kekoniemi. The relatively unknown player until yesterday's impressively booked a profit of €1,518 on a fairly tough feature table that also featured Cash Game Festival Dublin trophy winner Kevin Malone. However, according to what was witnessed throughout the evening, despite not being well-known, it is very clear he is very experienced.
Even though Kekoniemi was yesterday's big feature table winner, he is not currently in contention for the trophy. Right now, Heiti Riisberg maintains a lead that is likely to hold throughout the festival after winning €3,364 or 1,682 big blinds on a wild and crazy €2/€2 no-limit hold'em table on the first day of the festival.
As will be the case throughout the festival there will be two feature tables today at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. EET on the Cash Game Festival Twitch channel and in our PokerNews coverage under the Live Stream tab.
However, what makes today different is that the first feature table will be a women's only affair with stakes at €2/€2 no-limit hold'em. The stakes move up to €5/€10 no-limit hold'em for the later feature table and Hedley will attempt to show that in addition to providing quality commentary that he can play under the pressure of the lights and cameras.
The casino is expected to be even more packed with all 15 tables expected to be running on Day 3 as many more players are coming in for the weekend.
Stay tuned at PokerNews for the next three days as we report the hottest action during the 2017 Cash Game Festival Tallinn. Our official coverage is scheduled to begin before the first feature table kicks off at 6 p.m.