It’s finally here! Today is the first day of a fantastic week here in Bratislava with the third installment of The Festival Series kicking off at 4 pm.
For the next seven days, the Banco Casino in the heart of the Slovakian capital will see action 24/7 at the poker tables, the blackjack tables, roulette tables, slots, and during our sportsbook tournaments.
The poker main event will start tomorrow at noon, but today the first events will kick off in the afternoon.
Here’s what’s on the menu for today:
| Mon Oct-10 | 16:00 | 1 | Sviten Special Day 1 | 225+25 | 6 lvls | 30k / 30 |
| Mon Oct-10 | 18:00 | 2 | The HendonMob Championship Day 1 | 225+25 | 6 lvls | 25k / 30 |
| Mon Oct-10 | 19:00 | 3 | Super Satellite to Main Event 10x €550 Main Event tickets gtd. | 50+10 | 8 lvls | 10k / 20 |
| Mon Oct-10 | 20:00 | 4 | Cash Game Challenge €2/2 Texas (*) | 250 | - | |
| Mon Oct-10 | 22:00 | 5 | Texas Knockout (bounty 50€) | 60+50+15 | 6 lvls | 15k / 15 |
| Mon Oct-10 | 22:30 | 6 | Cash Game Challenge €2/2 PLO4 (*) | 250 | - |
Franke’s Flip Flops: Players can participate in our special flip tournaments again this week. They proved to be a big success during the past Festival in Tallinn. They run every day from 21:00 until 23:00. The concept is simple: players play in flip and go's for Festival tournament tickets. Via those flips, you can win a seat to any of our tournaments for a fraction of the prize. On top, we keep track of all the winners and whoever wins the most flips will win a full package to our next Festival stop worth €1,600.
Cash Game Challenge: During the entire week we’re running the Cash Game Challenge. Those are daily cash game sessions (some of which are streamed on our final table) with various blind levels and different poker variants. Each of those sessions lasts exactly 135 minutes. We keep score of who wins how many big blinds in each session and whoever is most successful at the end of the week wins a package to our next Festival stop, also worth €1,600.
Roulette and Blackjack: The Festival Series is as much about all casino games as it is about Poker. Tomorrow will be our big Roulette Day. The €250 Festival Roulette Championship starts tomorrow. We have an excellent article if you want to brush up on your roulette tournament strategy. Wednesday the €225 Blackjack Championship commences and both tournaments will have their final Thursday evening.
Sports Betting Competition: Another significant pillar of the Festival Series is our Sports Book Championship. We have two different buy-in levels for our sportsbook competition and one freeroll which awards three tickets to the low buy-in sportsbook tournament.
You can find all the information and the freeroll on our Festival Sportsbook page: https://play.thefestivalcom.wpengine.com/
While the first players are entering the casino and the last preparations for the week are being made, we’re excited for the first big tournament to start in a few hours. It will be the Sviten Special and we’re happy that the probably best Sviten Special player in the world, Peter La Terra is in the house and will fire at least one bullet in this event.
