2024 The Festival Rozvadov Day 3

The third day of The Festival Series in Rozvadov is still ongoing, but it’s the end of our coverage on the blog. It’s been a busy day, with both the H.O.R.S.E.S. Mixed Main Event and The Hendon Mob Championship now down to 16 and 15 players respectively. 

The first starting day of the €300 Mystery Bounty also began today, with the first of three starting days. They are on level 12 now withj 24 of the 83 starters still in. They will play until the end of level 18 tonight.

The €250 8-Game has been a popular one and there are still 13 of the 69 starters still in the running, with seven getting paid. The late night starting €125 Win The Button side event ha 156 entries and there still 49 players left. The the top 17 players will be in the prize money. Both of these tournaments will conclude this evening.

The first round of Franke’s Flips also took place tonight, with ten heats taking place. We’ll update you further on that in Monday’s blog.

Until tomorrow, keep calm and carry on pokering!

The last standing (technically sitting down) players in the €250 event have now bagged their chips and headed off for an early night to prepare for the final day tomorrow, when they will reach the business end of the poker equation.

They will return at 1pm to resume the charge for the final table and a shot at the €30,900 first prize, a €10,350 WSOPE tickets (for the top 3) plus a €2,000 package added by The Hendon Mob for their Cape Town event later in the year.

The most experienced player left in the field was Paul-Adrian Covaciu with over $1.1m in lifetime cashes, but he won’t be featuring on the final day, as he was eliminate in 18th place for €1,210, shortly before Iwan Tjew became the last exit of the day, departing in 17th for €1,370.

The chip leader going into the final day is Martin Wolf, who was the also the chip leader from Day 1c, having taken 874,000 cookies into Day 2. Wolf is the only surviving starting day chip leader left in the field. Robert Palasz and Matthias Steinberg, who topped their opening flights and had by far the two biggest stacks going into the day are still in contention, while all the other starting day chip leaders cashed.

End of Day 2 Chip Counts

They’re playing down to 16 players tonight and there are now 24 players left in the field. A table redraw has just been done and they will play down to the last 16 players before play ends for the day.

The Festival Series founder is still in, buying beers for anyone who’s willing to join him in little refreshment. He just called over that he made the bluff of the century…but got caught and lost a 1.2m chip pot. Ouch!

The most notable player left in the field (apart from Franke) is Romanian Paul Adrian Covaciu, who has over $1.1m in lifetime cashes, according to The Hendon Mob database. His results include victory in the Swiss Classic held here in Rozvadov last March for €64,350. That’s not his best result though, as he took fifth place in the 20223 WSOPE Main Event, also here in Rozvadov, for €321,838.

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News just in, Franke is now sadly out of the tournament, taking 23rd place for €1,050.

The final starting day of the €550 Mixed Games Main Event ended with just two of the nine players making it over the finish line for a place in tomorrow afternoon’s final day. Belorussian Siarhei Narozhny ended with the largest stack of the day on 220,000 while Paddy Schmidt from Germany is on 139,500. They join the thirteen other players who secured their Day 2 seats in the first two starting flights.

Play resumes for Day 2 at 1pm on Monday,

Tonight’s first Cash Game Challenge live stream has started, on a 30-minure has started, with the first of ten heats. This one is a €5/€5 No Limit Hold’em game, with minimum buy-in of €500. The goal is to make the most profit (in terms of big blinds) from any single heat. The winner receives a €1,600 package to The Festival in Malta in September.

The stream can be viewed on The FestivalOG Twitch Channel and on the Kings Casino Twitch Channel, with German commentary. English commentary is provided by Andreas ‘Wiseguy” Hoglund and Vaclav ‘Lemon’ Dušek.

American player ‘Stallion’ who finished second in yesterday’s €5/5 NLH Cash Game Challenge is back for another session. These are the chip stacks they started the session with.

Right now there is absolutely loads going on in the tiny Czech village of Rozvadov. Mostly poker, but not exclusively. Kings Casino is buzzing, with four tournaments running concurrently, including the first starting day of three in the €300 Mystery Bounty, which is now going into the fifth level of the day, with 70 players.

The Hendon Mob Championship is getting serious now that they’re in the money, with 44 players left, including Franke, who just won a big pot to take his stack over the 1m mark and well above average.

The 8-Game is now up to 56 entries and the final starting day of the Mixed Games Main Event has just begun the final level of the day with three players left from the nine that entered.

Tonight’s first Cash Game Challenge heat is a €2/€2 PLO and once again it will be live streamed on The FestivalOG Twitch Channel from 8.30pm (its on a 30-minute delay). Later there will be another heat, which will be €2/€2 NLH.

Franke’s Flips are also running from 8-10pm, where players can play a rake free flip tournament.

But there’s way more than just poker going on, as this is also the weekend for the Rozvadov Town Festival, which is taking place next to the football pitch across the main road from Kings Casino. Its mostly rock and metal bands and unfortunately has suffered because of the weather. I do think it needs a more catchy name, though, how about Rozkilde?

Scott ‘Pokerbrahs’ Kenyon made the money in The Hendon Mob Championship, but busted soon after making the money, losing a million chip pot. He’s not jumped into the €250 8-Game tournament, which is now up to 44 entrants and is streaming live on his Twitch Channel.

But Scott is not the only player streaming live from the 8-Game, as on the very next table is Norwegian Streamer Ylva ‘JevaKim’ Thorsrud who is also live on her Twitch Channel. 

It will be really interesting if they both end up on the same table and get in a hand together!

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Well, that didn’t take long. After a short hand-by-hand bubble time, the 90th player busted, holding AsKd on a flop of 3d5c3h. He did hit his ace on the turn, however his opponent had pocket fives and there was no miracle Ace on fifth street to send the unfortunate soul home empty handed. We’re not going to report his name, because that would just not be a fun thing to do. Privacy respected.

There’s now 90 of the day’s 121 starters left, which means they’re now on the bubble in The Hendon Mob Championship. One unlucky player will be going home with nothing, but the remaining 89 players will be taking home at least the €484. Obviously they all want to ladder well beyond min cash territory, with sights firmly fixed on a seat on the final table and shot at the €30,900 first prize.

This is what they’re playing for:

Day 2 of The Hendon Mob Championship has begun, with 121 players taking their seats. Before play started Franke gave his now traditional pre-day 2 speech, followed by a few words from The Hendon Mob’s Roland Boothby. 

Roland made two very special announcements, first that this is the biggest edition of The Hendon Mob Championship that has ever been held, with 825 entries, beating the previous best by five players. It’s also a great value event, as it missed its €200,000 guaranteed, creating an overlay over €25,000.

The second announcement by Roland was that the winner will receive an additional previously unannounced prize of a package to The Hendon Mob Championship in Cape Town, South Africa, which takes place in November.

Both Franke and Roland made it into Day 2 tournament and Roland also announced that there’s a bounty on his head. It didn’t take lon for that prize to be won, as Roland busted within the first hands of the day.

Here is the complete list of chip counts and seating draw for all the players who made it into Day 2

Although the biggest events at The Festival in Rozvadov are No Limit Hold’em, it’s a very varied tournament schedule, specially designed to appeal to mixed game players. There is at least one event every day that is not Hold’em. In addition to the final starting day of the Mixed Games Main event, the €250 8-Game is also in play, with 38 players entered so far.

Already spotted in the field are Antoine Degiorgio, Carlo Braccini, Bruno Stefanelli, Nicolas Bokowski, Andreas Dyll, Rolf Bechstroem and Sascha Manns.

In other news, there are now nine players in the Mixed Games Main Event and Day 2 of the The Hendon Mob Championship is about to start.

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The final flight had a turbo (15-minute blinds) structure and was the busiest of the starting days in the €250 buy-in event, with 187 entrants. By the time level 16 had been completed and play had stopped, 44 players remained, who now have just one hour to rest and rejuvenate before Day 2 starts at 5pm.

In total 116 players made it through from the five starting days at Kings Casino in Rozvadov plus the remote starting day at Kings Casino Prague. They will be joined in Day 2 by the winners of The Hendon Mob Championship Pineapple Flips, of which five have taken place so far and a few more will start before play restarts.

Matthias Steinberg posted the largest stack of the flight and is second overall, with 1.6m chips, but still over 600k behind Day 1d chip leader Robert Palasz.

Late registration has now closed in the final starting day of The Hendon Mob Championship, which had 187 entries, bringing the total number of entries up to 777. However, Flips to Day 2 are now in progress and the first one drew a large crowd of spectators.

The format is a bit like Crazy Pineapple. All players are dealt three cards, they discard one and then turn their hands over and deal the board. The Festival Series Founder Franke entered the first one and both he and one other player both had K9 offsuit. Another player had pocket sevens and was in the lead until the river, when a King hit the board, leaving Franke and his opponent to play another hand to determine the winner.

In the second hand Franke had KT and was up against Q9. This time a King hit on the turn, to end the spin, leaving Franke as the winner, taking a 400,000 average stack into Day 2, which starts at 5pm.

The final flight of the €550 H.O.R.S.E.S Mixed Main Event is also running and Franke is in that too, but he stepped away from the table for a few hands during the Razz rotation to win his flip. It’s a small field so far, with  six players so far, however it is only on level three and there are ten levels for late entry. Also playing is Jason Glatzer, still glowing from yesterday’s bubble avoidance coup.

Day 1d was literally a carbon copy of Day 1c, as both flights had exactly 176 entries, with 21 players taking stacks into Day 2.

The overwhelming chip leader from Day 1d was Robert Palasz from Poland, who bagged up an incredible 2,230,000, thee times more than second placed Rainer Sollfrank from Germany. Here are the chip counts of all the Day 1d survivors.

Welcome to the third day of The Festival in Rozvadov. On yesterday’s second day of The Festival in Rozvadov two further flights of €200,000 guaranteed The Hendon Mob Championship were staged, as was the second of three starting days in the €550 H.O.R.S.E.S Mixed Main Event. The €250 PLO Masters and the €125 Saturday Knockout also took place, as did the first heat of the Cash Game Challenge.

Read the full story in the Day 2 wrap.

Sunday Schedule at The Festival in Rozvadov

The third day of The Festival in Rozvadov kicks off with the fifth and final flight of The Hendon Mob Championship. The HORSES also has its last starting day and the €300 Mystery Bounty has its first starting day. There’s also a €250 8-Game starting this afternoon and the 10pm late slot is filled with a €125 NLH Win The Button tournament. 

Day 1e Turbo, the final starting day of The Hendon Mob Championship has already begun, with 69 players in their seats shortly after the start. A further 250 players are required to meet the €200,000 guarantee. Late registration closes shortly before 2pm.

Further heats of the cash game challenge are also scheduled and Franke’s Flip Flops, a rake free flipout competition, has its first session of the series.