2026 The Festival Rozvadov Day 3

In the €350 8-Game at King’s Resort in Rozvadov, Siarhei Narozhny has made his second final table of the day. He is joined by OFC Pineapple wizard Risto Ponnio, Peter Kepplinger, Dieter Kuehnl, Yurii Rassamakin, and Jens Voertmann. Christian Arstad was the unfortunate player to miss out on the min-cash and a shot at a beautiful Festival Series trophy.

In 1A of the Main Event, 8 players will progress to Day 2 and be in the money, whilst two more players will make the money, but have to try again in 1B, C or the Flip, to play Day 2 of the €500,000 event.

In the Thursday PLO Bounty Madness (40€ Bounty), the field are in the money, and they will play long into the small hours.

Blogger is signing off to get some beauty sleep. Stay tuned to the recap tomorrow for a recap of the day’s action. Lemons are impervious to fatigue, so keep an eye on The Festival Series Facebook page and TheFestivalOG on Instagram for high-energy action and coverage.

That’s all for now, folks, until later on.

The Madness is setting in at King’s Resort Rozvadov as 114 total entries took to the felt in the PLO Bounty Madness. €40 of each €125 buy-in goes into the bounty prize pool. 29 are currently left in the field, and below are the payouts exclusive of bounties.

59 total entrants, comprised of direct buy-ins, online package winners, and satellite ticket winners, have taken to the felts at King’s Resort in Rozvadov over the course of the day. 25 are left in pursuit of a bag for day 2, including THMC final tablists Dong He and Mykhailo Lohvinenko.

15% of the total field will find the money and cash for €1100, but only 10% will progress to Day 2.

Here are the counts from 1B of the Bounty Hunter Days Mystery Bounty. Leading the way is Romanian regular Paul Adrian Covaciu, who bagged 1,531,000, topping the 173 total entrant field. Bounty Hunter Days Head honcho Stephan Kubler also found a bag for Day 2. To learn more about the Bounty Hunter Days crew, click here.

14 are left battling it out in the second Mixed Games tournament of the day, the €350 8-Game. Mixed Games Main Event Final Tablists Siarhei Narozhny and Erik Hamre remain in contention for the trophy, as does Sviten Special third-place finisher Evert Bos. Below are the payouts.

In a hand of Seven Card Stud, Ameer Sabri was all in on fourth street with 5 9 K 2 against Freitas’ 5 4 Q 3 .

Sabri was drawing dead on the fifth as Freitas binked the 9 to complete his flush and seal the deal. Below are the payouts in full.

Richard Freitas drew three in a hand of Sviten Special against his opponent Ameer Sabri. In what was a substantial pot, Freitas made a full house in hand and quads on board to scoop and leave Sabri short. The next game up is Seven Card Stud.

In what has been a rollercoaster day for a certain poker writer, the blog is back full-time as he didn’t win the Mixed Games Main Event TORSES.

Two players are left, Ameer Sabri and Richard Freitas. Sabri has 940,000 and Freitas 1,400,000, so it is still anyone’s game. The duo has retaken their seats and heads-up play continues.

While we are in Rozvadov for the third year in a row, online qualifiers keep on going in the online world. Every Thursday, you can qualify for as little as 0,01 euro for any of the remaining The Festival stops in 2026. There are also flips available at 17:45 and 17:55 CET, which award 50 euro tickets for the tournament that you can see below:

Come check it out and perhaps we will see you at our next event! The good thing about online packages at Unibet? Hospitality events are included!

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Thomas Eckerstorfer, who has visited our events before, had a glorious day yesterday which puts him in the hotseat for the rest of the week. He not only bagged the overall chiplead in the Mixed Games Main Event TORSES, but also secured the overall chiplead in the Bounty Hunter Days Mystery Bounty!

What a start of the week for him!