2026 The Festival Bratislava Day 6

Blogger still needs to write many words for the recap, so he is turning in for the night. The 10-Game Mix field is bagging and tagging for the night, and the counts will be in asap.

There are 7 left in the Mystery Bounty, and Walodik Gregorian binked the biggest bounty, worth €5,529.

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Michal Zielinski called the games the best in the €125 Sportsbook tournament. What makes the win even sweeter is that he won his ticket in a flip! Two previous Sportsbook champs made the money; Mairo “EstonianWeirdo” Toom and The Blogger cashed in second and fourth. The Festival’s resident Nederlander claimed the last podium spot, and his compatriot Bas de Laat, claimed the last payout spot.

de Laat remains in the field in the Mystery Bounty and has locked up two cashes today. Below are the payouts.

Mladen Stojanovic was on the wrong end of a cooler. He was all in pre with Q Q against the covering stack of Henning Wendlandt, who had A A . The 6 3 5 8 10 runout saw the plastic bags make an appearance, so the players could bag and tag. Below are the counts of the returning players.

Jo Kim open-jammed for around 1,250,0004 4 from early position in a six-handed table. She was called by the current chip leader, Zbigniew Wieczorek, who had 10 10 . There were no surprises this time across the 3 2 9 6 7 .

Markus Gaulhofer gave himself a pat on the back for relinquishing ace-queen to the muck, saying “good fold” to himself.

Julius Jurksaitis has become the BigO Champion here at Banco for the first-ever Festival title. The results of the Sportsbook tournament are currently being confirmed.

Here are the counts of the remaining players in The Main Event. Play will finish when the final table is reached.

Here are the players who no longer have any chips in the Main Event.

Here is our interview with Koen Roos, who was presented with The Hendon Mob Award for the most countries cashed in last year. Roos went on his travels and cashed in 50 different countries over the course of the year.

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The BigO saw Eva Jiretom miss out on the min-cash. Barrie Dear has since fallen in the money. In the Mystery Bounty, Lukasz Sajnog has narrowly missed out on the chance to play for bounties. He lost a flip with Big Slick versus sixes, as a pair became three of a kind on the flop.

On a nearby table, Alexandros Pissias bust immediately after, whilst on the bubble with eights against king ten suited.

Action was picked up with Jo Kim opening the button to 95,000. Tonis Vikk moved all in for around 350,000 with the blinds at 20,000/40,000. Kim called with 10 10 . Vikk had J J .

It was all fine and dandy for the jacks until the river, where Kim binked a ten across the 4 9 9 8 10 runout.

Jari Maehoenen, Jens Voertmann, Sergii Baranov, and Martin ‘Franke’ von Zweigbergk are the current big stacks at the break of the debut of the €1,100 10-Game Mix here at Banco Casino Bratislava. Play will run for nine levels before play stops for the night.

Registration will remain open for the first two levels tomorrow, so there is still a chance to play if you can’t tonight.

Heiko Hinkelmann, Julius Jurksaitis, and Nathan Ruell are the big stacks in the eight-handed BigO final table. The field is not in the money yet as only seven of the field will be paid.

Several of the key protagonists in the Player of the Year race are plugging away in various events at Banco Casino today. However, sadly Scott “pokerbrahs” Kenyon is not one of them, as he has had to return home for unexpected reasons. We wish him well and hope to see him again next time.

The top two of Lachezar Tsenov and Barrie Dear opted for the Big O, which has nine players left out of 54 entries, with 7 set to make the money. Barrie is still in, but Lachezar recently busted in 11th.

Wouter Schuurbiers chose the Mystery Bounty and is still in that as it also approaches the bubble. 

A strong finish for either Barrie or Wouter would put them in great shape to take down the title, however there is one player in the Main Event who could throw a spanner into the works. Komil Khamidov is one of the last 24 players left and a run to the final table would give him a very good shot at taking down the title.

Here are the Mystery Bounties that will be up for grabs from the Bounty chest. The bounties are juicy, so expect stacks to be flying when the field is in the money.

Two of the surprise attendees at this Festival stop in Bratislava have been Ari Engel and Jo Kim. The poker power couple have been taking to the tables across the week at Banco Casino in Bratislava. Engel has already secured a title in Sviten Special. Kim is still looking for her first title, but she is poised to threaten the field in the Main Event as she has accumulated a stack of over 1,000,000.

It would be no surprise to see Kim at the final table come 12 p.m. tomorrow. Engel is currently in the BigO, and it appears the Mixed Games have been the real attraction for the duo.

Thirteen are left, and only seven will be paid in the BigO tournament. Ari Engel is in contention for his second title of the week, having binked the Sviten Special. POS Leaderboard first-place Lachezar Tsenov will be looking to add to his current points tally of 117.5 with a deep run here. Below are the payouts in full.

Dortmund has taken the lead against Bayern Munich through Nico Schlotterbeck. Verona have equalised against Napoli via Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpo. Dortmund and Bayern players are indulging in half-time oranges, and Verona and Napoli have played 70 minutes of football.

Here are the biggest stacks in the Main Event. Eleven of the remaining 28 have over 1,000,000 in chips, and Ante Zvono has taken the lead. Gaulhofer, the start of the day chipleader, has slid down the rankings into sixth. Jo Kim has shot up the leaderboard, having come into Day 2 with roughly 360,000.

Only 28 remain of the Main Event field. Here are the recent eliminations as the field goes on an hour long dinner break.

Here is the field so far for the debut of the €1,100 10-Game Mix. Andreas Hoglund won his seat in a staff flip, so he is freerolling. Mixed Game Main Event – TORSES Champion Thor Morstoel is looking for a second title of the

Here are the full-time scores in what is now an 18-way tie. Five players have one point, 18 have three points, and 19 have two points. Bayern Munich and Dortmund have just got underway in the double points game. Napoli have taken an early lead against Verona through Rasmus Hojlund.

Burnley 3 – 4 Brentford

Liverpool 5 – 2 West Ham

Newcastle 2 – 3 Everton

Slovan Bratislava 4 – 0 Trnava

There has been over 20 goals across the four opening games so far in the Sportsbook tournament. Burnley have scored two goals in the second half against Brentford. They briefly took the lead to make it 4-3 but it was ruled out by VAR.

Liverpool are 5-2 up versus West Ham, and Slovan Bratislava ran out comfortable winners in the opening game, putting four past Trnava in a 4-0 victory. Newcastle and Everton has seen five goals, with Everton currently leading 3-2.

There will be no three-peat for Sebastian Kotowicz as he has become the latest casualty of the Main Event field. Mixed Game Main Event – TORSES champ Thor Morstoel has also been sent to the rail.

Slovan Bratislava have gone 2-0 thanks to a penalty. It’s half-time in the Premier League. Here are the scores.

Burnley 1 – 3 Brentford (Kayode Own Goal for Burnley)

Liverpool 3 – 0 West Ham (McAllister scored the third goal)

Newcastle 1 – 2 Everton

Thirty PLO enthusiasts are in play in the Big O tournament. Amongst the field are Ari Engel, who will be looking for a second Festival title, last year’s POS winner Ville Hakala, last night’s 2-7 Double Draw third place Barrie Dear, and current POS leaderboard topper, Lachezar Tsenov.

For those who don’t know, BigO is five-card PLO8, with half the pot going to the best high hand, and the other half going to the best low.

Brentford are putting Burnley to the sword as Kevin Schade makes it 3-0 from close range. There were two quick-fire goals in Newcastle and Everton. Jacob Ramsey’s equaliser was quickly cancelled out by Beto.

Brentford have taken a 1-0 lead away at Burnley courtesy of a headed goal from Mikkel Damsgaard, who converted the chance from Dango Outtara’s corner kick. Elsewhere, Jarrad Branthwaite also converted a chance from a corner courtesy of a great delivery from James Garner.

Keeping on trend with goals from corners, Virgil van Dijk outjumps the West Ham defense to head the ball into the opposition net. During the creation of this post, Brentford has put more distance between itself and Burnley. Damsgaard turned provider for the in-form Igor Thiago, who slotted the ball into the net from close range to make it 2-0.

In the biggest test of skill of the week, Slovan Bratislava has taken an early lead against Trnava courtesy of Andras Sporar.

The three Premier League games are all underway. Liverpool have gone 1-0 up thanks to Hugo Ekitike whose deflected shot passed the West Ham goalkeeper Mads Hermansen.

A whopping €45,525 will go to the winner of The Main Event. Stefan Raschbauer has become the first player to depart from the field.

Here are the chip leaders as The Main Event Day 2 gets underway. A field of 64 is returning with the blinds at 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 big blind ante.

Good luck to all who are playing.

The Hyperturbo flight to Day 2 of the Main has concluded, and Tal Moriel joins Markus Gaulhofer in the chip millionaire club. Last years runner up, Andrej Tekel, has bagged, but will need to spin up in order to make the final Day. Below are the counts from this flight.

In Festival fashion, the loser of each flip was the winner. Yevhenii Havriushenko won the heads-up cash game flip by losing with the worst hand.

Sami Korpela became Franke’s flip winner, outflipping a field of 5 players.

Franke then ran a staff flip-off, which was won by Andreas “Wiseguy” Hoglund. He was heads-up versus one of our resident rockstars, Pljuw, who rivered a straight to make the nuts and lose out on the chance to freeroll the €1,100 10 Game Mix.

Nine of the 72 will progress into today’s Day 2 of the Main Event. Ville Hakala will not be making the cut, as he was recently eliminated. Last years runner up Andrej Tekel is in contention to make the cut, as is Lachezar Tsenov, who is the current POS Leader.

A total of 92 entrants have made their way to Banco Casino Bratislava to play in the Mystery Bounty tournament. The €250 buy-in has a guarantee of €30,000, and €100 of each buy-in will go into the Mystery Bounty box.

Joakim Bakke, Attila Erdei, and Igor Narajczyk are just a trio of the strong field that is bound to grow stronger over the course of the day. Sami Pullainen is already on bullet number three.

In 50 minutes, registration for the €125 Sportsbook Tournament will close. The tournament takes place on paper from today! You have until Saturday, 1 p.m. local time to buy in and grab a sheet from The Festival team at the Hospitality desk.

The rules are simple. Pick either home team to win, draw, or away win and the correct score for each game. Players will receive one point for each correct outcome and two points for the correct score.

One of the games will be worth double points. In case of a tie, the player who predicts, or is closest to, the total number of goals scored across the seven games will win the title. All entrants will be added to a group chat on WhatsApp so we can all sweat the tournament together. Scorelines will also be updated on the blog.

Come and get involved!