Highlights From the Cash Game Festival Bulgaria; Next Up London, Online and Tallinn

The 2016 Cash Game Festival Bulgaria took place from Aug. 31 to Sept. 4 and was a huge success with players from around Europe converging to Platinum Casino in Sunny Beach for five days of nonstop action on and off the felt.

Jason Dichev

The biggest single pot during the festival took place on Friday night on Day 3 when local Bulgarian player Jasen Dichev won a pot of €3,400 on a €5/€10 televised feature table. The hand began just minutes after Dichev was caught bluffing against Estonia’sJanar Kokk to temporarily give his opponent the previous biggest hand in the festival with a pot worth €2,400.

Dichev went all in for €1,200 with on a board for a full-house. Fellow countrymate Yuliyan Kolev, holding for three-of-a-kind and top-kicker, tanked for a minute before calling to send a huge pot to Dichev.

Meanwhile, the festival awarded two packages valued at €1,700 each to the next Cash Game Festival taking place at Aspers Casino in London from Sept. 28 to Oct. 3 for the highest hands in both pot-limit Omaha and no-limit hold’em. Sweden’s Peter La Terra, who came to Bulgaria after attending the previous Cash Game Festival in Malta, locked down the high hand Omaha jackpot with quad-jacks and will now appear at three Cash Game Festivals in a row.

The hold’em high hand jackpot was very exciting. Up until the last hour before the jackpot closed, the previous best hand was a king-high straight flush. However, as time was ticking down, the poker room erupted in excitement after local Bulgarian player Nickolay J. Petrov automatically shipped a package with a royal-flush.

On the final day of the festival, Cash Game Festival Co-founder Martin “Franke” von Zweigbergk and Janar Kokk signed a contract to play in an epic heads-up match. While typically playing heads up doesn’t require any ink, this was a “go big or go to a new home” best of three match …

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