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Recap The Festival Series Main Event Day 2

Recap The Festival Series Main Event Day 2
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Melvin Schroen Pokerlistings Author
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  • Last updated on: December 29, 2024 · 4 minutes to read

Saturday 19th of February, the day that Day 2 of The Festival Series was going to be played out until there were eight players left, which meant that it would be the Official Final Table. Before we reached to that point, we would need to play down from 91 players. With names such as Sascha Manns, the brothers Jonatan and Oskar Wedde, Dimitri Dudakov, Gatis Reigass, Vincenzo Lupoli and Leo Sigurdsson, It promised to be a true spectacle. Partly because the blinds were at such a level that many players would eventually find the Waterloo if they did not act quickly. We were there from the first to the last minute with PokerListings and will try to paint the best possible picture of this grueling day of play.

Early chipleaders struggle to keep hold of their chips

In the early stages we saw that German poker-pro Sascha Manns boosted his stack up in the air by winning a big all-in with Ace-Queen, eventually hitting two pair. He would eventually go bust with the Final Table in his sight at place 15. Sadly for him it wouldn’t be the third final table of the Main Event back-to-back of this event. He would take home 2,500 for his efforts. Glenn Wilson, another familiar face of this event here in Nottingham, had a huge stack at some point, but not much later he was doomed to survive and eventually lost all of his chips fairly quickly. One player who did eventually hold his early big stack was Endrit Geci, he managed to play himself to the final 8. We have seen many aces passing by, but the hand of A.V. was the biggest one of the day. Sadly for him, one hand later he got again aces and lost a huge chunk of his stack as his opponent made a flush with 5 6 .

Streamers Paradise

This of remaining players at the start of the day consisted out of many professional poker streamers. You had Oskar ‘Deckflow’Ojaveer, who busted out as the first one of the day. The brothers Jonatan and Oskar Wedde (WeddePoker) and Gatis Reigass. Reigass who catapulted himself to the chiplead at some point, but not soon later was fighting for his tournament life:

Sadly, but true. The Latvian dream for Gatis Reigass to win the Main Event of The Festival Series has finished. We saw him having the chiplead not even too long ago with 11M in chips, but he seemingly had blown up his stack as he was down to just 800,000 in chips. He did manage to double it up first with Kings, but one hand later he had shoved all-in, when the button and SB had completed the blind. The button threw his cards into the muck, but the SB in the likes of Ali Ayub made the call.

Ayub: A 2 

Reigass: A 3 

Ayub was mentioned a 3 would appear on the board, which it eventually did. But it was the wrong 3 for Reigass as it made a Flush for Ayub. We say ‘Au Revoir’ to the flamboyant Optibet guy from Latvia, Gatis Reigass.

Dutch and Estonian Power

Mark van der Voorden, an extremely kind personality from The Netherlands, qualified himself through Unibet not too long ago. Now, he is living the true poker dream here in Nottingham. He was hanging around the 10/15 big blind mark for a long time, but it all mattered about the ending. He was taking big pots every orbit so to say. And he ended the day with 19,675,000 in chips. Which is good for 39 big blinds. He was also responsible for reaching the unofficial final table by knocking

out Samual Deering. The chipleader of the final table with 38,225,000 and a massive domination over the other players, is Estonian’s hope Dmitri Dudakov. With nine players remaining he extend his chiplead by sending A.V. home by winning with his pocket eights against the 8-9 suited from A.V. It catapulted him to an even bigger lead. Dudakov came in the lead with 20 players remaining and will for sure try to dominate the final table to take home the first prize to Estonia. One partical hand stays in our memories, which can also be read in The Festival Nottingham liveblog of PokerListings:

The local hero Ali Ayub fully deserved to run deep in this tournament as he was playing extremely well throughout the whole tournament. Unfortunately for him, the poker gods were thinking differently about this and send him home in 17th place.

Sunday, the livestream will be THE place for all viewers to follow the final table of the Main Event of The Festival Series at the Dusk Till Dawn Pokerclub in Nottingham. Make sure to spread the word and we hope you will enjoy the event as much as we do. It has been an epic ride this week and we are positive it will end with a big bang. Here are the final table contestants:

The Festival Nottingham Main Event Final Table live blog capture
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