The Festival Nottingham Day 1B Recap

Rise and shine Ladies and Gentleman. Yesterday, at 12:00 GMT it was the start of Day 1B here at The Festival Series in Nottingham. The Dusk Till Dawn PokerClub is the place to be in the UK at the moment, as the Mixed Games Extravaganza is in full glory throughout the whole week. On the first starting day the Main Event attracted 129 players, of which 19 players remained. On day 1B however, there were a total of 138 players. We were going to play down to 21 players and it was going to be promised to be a day full of action.

Day 1B of Main Event

Big names turned up to play Day 1B, and oh boy, did we look forward to this one. German poker pro Sascha Manns, Optibet Twitch-streamer Gatis Reigass, ACR-Stormers Oskar Ojaveer, Daniel Palsson and Neil Edwards, a lot of names turned up for this event. And they were all looking to bag for day 2 today.

A lot of female players also found their way to this starting flight and one of them was Anna Malmi, a friend of The Festival Series, as we saw her already during every previous stop. Eventually she didn’t make it to the next day, but we would like to mention a hand she was involved in:

We arrived at table 15 where Anna Malmi is showing ff her poker skills. One table next to her Greger Larsson, partner in crime, is sitting. Malmi called from the button a raise to 5,000 from the CU. Also both of the blinds came along, one of them is ACR-Stormer Neil Edwards, aka TwinnyPoker.

After the flop was dealt with showing K Q 10 , it was the CU who continued for 12,500. Malmi was not convinced and made it 25,000 to go, on which the blinds went out of the way. Attila Erdei, who was the man behind the CU, decided to complete to be able to see a turn. After checking the action, Malmi fired 35,000 and Erdei quickly folded.

Dutch Courage

Mark van der Voorden, Qualified for this event through one of the many satellites on Unibet, managed to get a bag as well today. Although it didn’t went easily for him:

I just spoke to fellow Dutchman, Mark van der Voorden. He told me he had lost a 450k pot. His opponent chucked in all of his chips on a J-3-3 flop with pocket 7s, Van der Voorden was holding the Aces, but sadly for him one of the remaining 7s appeared on the river. Tough game sometimes..

Later stages of the day

During the later stages of the day we had to say goodbye to Oskar Ojaveer from Estonia, Dutchman Bas Silvius, another qualifier from Unibet. And many more players who didn’t find a way to accumulate chips to survive the day decently. When the later stages appeared, we saw familiar names chipping up in the likes of Sascha Manns, Gatis Reigass, Mark van der Voorden, Marian Dumitrache and Vincenzo Lupoli. They all advanced to the next round and will have plenty of time left today to either wonder around in the city, or to play any of the many side events. Today it’s time for day 1C, and the turbo flight day 1D! PokerListings is already at the pokerclub to provide you with information about all the action.

Reigass ends strong

Gatis Reigass, better known as ‘The Optibet Guy’, went through as 3^rd in chips, which he hoped for of course. He mentioned at the beginning of the day that he wanted to end the day with two million in chips and that’s what he did. In the last hand of the day he took a big pot to catapult himself into the top-3 of the day.

Place	Player	Chips
1	Marian Dumitrache	3,565,000
2	Sascha Manns	2,965,000
3	Gatis Reigass	2,135,000
4	Marc Bolton	1,730,000
5	Allan Arjut	1,715,000
6	Vincenzo Lupoli	1,605,000
7	David Clark	1,595,000
8	S. G.	1,530,000
9	O. F.	1,265,000
10	S. Y.	1,130,000
11	Michal Czeszel	1,020,000
12	Mark van der Voorden	1,010,000
13	Samuel Deering	1,000,000
14	Anders Wattengard	950,000
15	Leo Sigurdsson	925,000
16	Callum Highley	880,000
17	Marko Keskel	875,000
18	Jari Karkkainen	755,000
19	Marius Wiszowaty	405,000
20	P. S.	310,000
21	Dmitrijs Meless	270,000

The Festival Nottingham Day 1B Recap

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