The Festival Nottingham Day 2

We reached the end of the day as 20 players will remain on contest to become the PokerListings Champion and with not only winning grand prize money, he or she will also get a package for the next stop of The Festival Series in Malta. It was eventually the Norwegian Twitch-Streamer Ylva Thorsrud who eliminated Samuel Deering in a stylish manner.

Early big stacks

We saw many hands again today and we eventually played for about 9 hours straight. It was Yin Yahzou who had the commanding chiplead from the get-go, but when the end was narrowing he had to go in survival mode and eventually finished the day with 730,000 chips. We also saw Latvian pride Dimtrys Meless who finished yesterday at Day 1B as the stone cold bubble, but today he bagged chips and fully deserved it this time with a stack of 1,620,000. Other notable cashes are Kasper Wurtz (2,865,000), Jonas Kovacs (2,700,000), and Thomas Ascott (2,670,000).

We have seen also some crazy action such as the following saga:

John Kitchen, who by now hit the showers, had an interesting hand before he actually busted his stack anyhow. When I was talking to him a bit, he moved all-in for his remaining 93,000 from UTG. He told me he had two flush draw possibilities with his hand. His neighbour Tahriq Qaiyum went all-in as well and all remaining players folded. ”I want to see his pain in the fance once he loses with his Ace-King” John mentioned to me. And oh boy, did he not.

Kitchen – 4 6 

Qaiyum – A K 

The pain was real, and it became even worse for Qaiyum.

Board : J 3 4  3  J 

We have had many beats and braggs today. But in the ultimate hand it was Ylva Thorsrud who busted Sumual Deering with a cooler to finish off the day. Ylva’s Kings holded up against the Ace-Queen suited of Samual. No help and Sumual finished on the most dishonourable place of the tournament, the bubble.

Chip Counts Day 1C PokerListings Championships:

Level 17: 25,000/50,000 (50,000)
Entries: 20/23

Simon Wilson, who lost as lot in previous clashes, keeps on 3-betting despite being under the 1M chipmark. After an open 100,000 and a call of the player from the middle position, he then made it 280,000 to go from the CU. Both players folded when looking at the poker face of Simon Wilson.

Yin Yahzou isn’t that commanding anymore as he was before. He is one of the shorter stacks and needs to push/fold at all times. However, its not him who is folding all the time at his table.

Level 16: 20,000/40,000 (40,000)
Entries: 23/136

On table 13 we have Dimitrys Meless, who became the bubble-boy in yesterday’s episode Day 1B, 4-bet shoved from the SB, and the original raised moved out of the way before Simon Wilson went into the tank. It wouldn’t take long before he folded as well and so he lost his 305,000 bet he had in front of him. Meless showed Queens when Wilson asked to show his hand.

On table 14, we had another pot brewed where the Queens were involved. It was Gorden Skinner who took some from previous Chipleader Kasper Wurtz. Wurtz who seems to have lost an incredible chunk of his stack in a split-second. Queens vs Ace-Jack and the pocket pair stood up all the way.

Jonas Kovacs saw Andrews going all-in after an opening raise of the CU. Holding [Ax][Qx] it was an easy-peasy reshove for Kovacs, with a stack of 1,1 Million chips.

Andrews [Ax][10x]

Kovacs [Ax][Qx]

The board gave no help, some chop pot opportunities but nothing happened on the river. It was the end of the story for Andrews, who can join the lot at the bar, as it’s getting busy over there.

A player in early position opened up the party with a raise to 55,000, on which Wurtz in the SB, and Lambert in the BB decided to see a flop.

Flop: 8 10 9

Wurtz checked and Lambert put her remaining 355,000 into the middle. The original raiser folded instantly and Wurtz threw in a timebank card, before making the call with 8 7 . It was a logical call, when looking at the stack of Wurtz who is the dominating chipleader, but Lambert had flopped well with 9 6 for a Gut-shot straight-flush draw.

The turn however, gave a straight to Wurtz J , and with the river being a 2 , it was Game Over for Lambert. Wurtz is really in the commanding chiplead at the moment overall, with just 5 players left to bust to finish Day 1C here at the PokerListings Championships.

Kasper Wurtz	5,000,000
Wendy Lambert	BUSTED

Gordon Skinner got to know that Diamonds last forever, unfortunately. We saw the dealer had already turned over the flop, which was 10 5 7 . Wendy Lambert, also from the UK, went all-in on the flop, after an open from Skinner. An immediate call followed and cards were about to be opened:

Skinner: 10 Q

Lambert: K 8

With the 10 on the turn nothing changed, but the flush came through with the 9 and Lambert made a double-up towards the end of Day 1C.

The Roulette tournament attracted 16 players, and whenever chips are flying around you can be certain that The Festival Series Owner – Martin ‘Franke’ von Zweigbergk is present. Later today, in the results tab, you can find all results of the Side-Events of this wonderful series here at Dusk Till Dawn Pokerclub in Nottingham.

Level 13: 10,000/20,000 (20,000)
Entries: 47/136

It’s the players dream. Flopping a set while the other aggressor, with a decent stack, hits top-pair with top-kicker. Sembrastovych saw it happening as he was involved in the hand himself holding J J . He opened up the action pre-flop to 50,000, with the blinds on 10,000/20,000/20,000. Neighbour player Justin Kean made the call, before the big blind put his dancing shoes on and raised it up to 265,000. Neil Hackman who was the player in question, had a decent stack with about 30ish big blinds behind.

Flop: J 6 K

Hackman continued for 225,000, on which Sembrastovych announced to be all-in. An instant call of Hackman which showed A K and saw the bad news, when looking his opponent cards. No runner-runner appeared and Hackman hit the rail, which was fairly close as table number 16 is right at the end of the poker pit.

We have a new Chip Leader!

When you see a board of K J 9 K A , and 3 players are involved in the pot, it certainly has to be fireworks.

Lazarus had put in 56,000 on the river, into a pot of around 150,000. The big stack of the table folded his hand, but Mikael Doverklint made ‘just’ a call on the river with 10 Q . Lazarus was a bit surprised, as he thought he would have taken it down with K 7 .

John Kitchen, who by now hit the showers, had an interesting hand before he actually busted his stack anyhow. When I was talking to him a bit, he moved all-in for his remaining 93,000 from UTG. He told me he had two flush draw possibilities with his hand. His neighbour Tahriq Qaiyum went all-in as well and all remaining players folded. ”I want to see his pain in the fance once he loses with his Ace-King” John mentioned to me. And oh boy, did he not.

Kitchen – 4 6

Qaiyum – A K

The pain was real, and it became even worse for Qaiyum.

J 3 4 3 J

The awkward silence got taken over by the noise of chips chirping. And John chipped up to around 200,000. But soon later it followed by a bust as we no longer see him in the list of remaining players.

Level 9: 4,000/8,000 (8,000)
Entries: 76/136

We have seen Yin Yuzhou sitting extremely comfortably throughout the whole tournament and he seems to be a real contestant for the victory in this tournament. With his smooth skills he is easily chipping it up – We got hold of one of his winning hands:

Michael Ingram, who opened op the action from the button with a raise to 16,000, got a 3-bet against him of 40,000 from Yuzhou. After being in the tank a bit he raised it up to 76,000 on which Yuzhou moved in all of his chips. Ingram, who just had around 230,000 behind, concluded he had to lay down his hand and moved them into the muck.

We have reached the end of the registration period of the PokerListings Championships. The grand total of participants is 383, which gives a total prize pool of £37,121. A number which crushed the guarantee of £25,000.

Today we will playing until 15% of the felt of Day 1C is left, so 20 players will be able to bag their chips.

Players who have made it to Day 2 – will collect approximately a £200 min cash at least.

Mark van der Voorden, one of the many Qualifiers of The Festival Series got his package secured by winning a satellite event at Unibet. We noticed him already a bit earlier in the tournament, but now we finally got a hand of him as well.

Jonas Kovacs opened the action from early position with a bet of 15,000 on blinds 3,000/6,000/ with ante 6,000. Van der Voorden is sitting right next to him and he made the call, so did the player in the big blind and 3 players saw the flop 4 7 3 . Kovacs continued for another 15,000, on which Van der Voorden 3-bet to 42,000. Kovacs wasn’t afraid and put in 100,000 chips as a 4-bet. The Dutchman didn’t throw in chips, but timebank cards instead before throwing his cards into the muck.

Richard Lazarus had only a couple chips left but got it in 3-way for a grand total of 220,000 chips. Eventually only him and just one his pre-flop opponents got to the showdown in the end and he opened up a nice set of 7s to take it down and is back on starting stack.

By meeting so many people in the previous events, it is sometimes hard to recognize players by name, but some folks you will always remember. This is also the story with Simon Wilson, a very eager and kind gentleman from the UK, who won the Texas NLHE Freezeout in Bratislava. The Festival Series has found a unique way of awarding the winners throughout the series. From every picture of the winner, a portrait will be made by Ukranian artist ‘Modernoise’. Interested? Make sure to check out the interview with him.

Level 7: 2,500/5,000 (5,000)
Entries: 73/114

We currently are one level away of the end of the late registration of the PokerListings Championships. A decent turnout today we have to say, although it looked like it would become more busy today. As the 8-Game is popular over here, several players decided to play mixed games instead of No-Limit Hold’em.

We grabbed a hand of table number 3 where Daniel Edler added some chips to his stack after his opponent gave up on a flop of 4 8 6 . Pre-flop Edler had already 3-bet to 26,000, followed by a bet on the flop of the same size.

Currently there are 56 players who entered this side event, and 52 players are still in the game to win this all-round mixed games event. We have a lot of familiar names sitting at the tables. Let’s see is there and can still keep it together:

WIlliam Paxton
Sasha Manns
Jon Kyte
Georgina James (GJ Reggie) – Team PokerStars
JJ Hazan
Mason Pye – Team PokerStars
William Lynch

We have seen Jari Latti already hitting the fields yesterday, and by seeing him today again on Day 1C we can conclude that yesterday didn’t end well for him. Going into the hand we had seen, he had about starting stack at the start of the hand. While moving in a raise of 56,000 on the river into a 110,000 pot, his opponent Dimitrys Meless threw his hand into the muck. The board had ran out K J 6 J 2 and Latti was satisfied with the fold of Meless, who became the stone cold bubble boy on Day 1B.

[Ax][4x] off suited made it work out well for Latti.

We just spotted an all-in on table number 1 where Justin Kean put a player at risk in the name of Danut-Andrei Onofrei. The dealer had dealt [Ax][Jx][10x][9x][4x] and Kean had thrown out a bet which put Onofrei at risk for his tournament life. Onofrei went into the tank, thinking through what actually had happened. Unfortunately, he couldn’t get rid of his [Kx][Jx] as it was no good against the [Qx][Qx] of Kean.

Players who have taken an hospitality package will go soon to the Bowling Centre to enjoy themselves. The Festival Series is not only about playing poker, but also to put on some dancing shoes now and then. Who will throw the most strikes this afternoon? For more information about such events, make sure to check the following link.

Players enjoyed a 15-minute break, which gave us the chance to collect some of the notable chip stacks. It is rather busy already with 95 entrants, and it has surpassed the guaranteed prize pool with these numbers. With still 4 levels of late registration, there is plenty of time for people to either register or re-enter.

As mentioned before, the 3rd place finisher of The Festival Series Main Event of Bratislava in the name of Leo Sigurdsson took a heavy hit to his stack by calling off a big river bet of his opponent Jonatan Wedde, a Twitch-streamer from Norway.

Sigurdsson’s ”sigh” moment happened when he called of a bet of 97,500, into a pot of 80,000. The board had ran out [Ax][Ax][6x][10x][7x] and when the cards opened up, Wedde showed nicely [Ax][Kx] to take it down.

The fancy Swede, also called the ”George Clooney of Sweden”, who attended every event of The Festival Series so far, is also sniffing around in Nottingham. He is a true member of The Festival Series army, and we hope for him he will run deep today. Sadly for him, he just lost a big chunk of his stack due to a lower kicker. His [Kx][Jx] was no good against the [Kx][Qx] on a K-high board.

Greger Larsson 137,500

We joined the action at table 14, where Albert Sapiano is giving a masterclass at the moment. He clashed already couple times with his opponent William Delaney. In the current hand the board had ran out so far 9 8 6 7 , And Delaney had released a bet of 15,000 into a pot of 30,000 chips. Sapiano made the call to see the 7 on the river, followed by an immediate bet of 75,000 on the river, adding the words ”A flush won’t help you”.

Delaney thought about it for a bit before putting his cards into the muck. Sapiano gently showed A J and took down the pot with a nice bluff.

Leo Sigurdsson from Iceland, who managed to become 3rd for €50,550 during the Main Event of The Festival Series in Bratislava is also attending this event. We already saw him strolling around yesterday, but we didn’t see him playing anything yet. For sure he is gearing up for another deep run in the Main Event, starting tomorrow.

Anthony Kauzloric had a bet of 27,000 laying in front of him, while the action was on his opponent on the river.

His A 3 was enough to take down the pot on a board of 10 3 4 10 2 . His opponent didn’t believe him as he called if off with [Ax][Kx].

Anthony Kauzloric – 280,000

We got already 38 players registered for the PokerListings Championships event Day 1C, the last one of the starting flights. Let’s have a look around in the field so far:

Player	Country	Stack
Sanjay Patel		200,000
Gatis Reigass (Optibet)		200,000
Paul Smith		200,000
Dimitrys Meless		200,000
William Delaney		200,000
Alistair Donaldson		200,000

As The Festival Series is specialized in offering mixed games, this event cannot be missed out on. Many Scandinavian players will attend this event, and with the mix of local UK players it is going to be a ball to be playing an event of such. If you are unsure about your 8-game skills, hold your horses, we got everything you need to know in our website.