Rozvadov regulars Rachid El Yaacoubi, Siarhei Narozhny, who has recorded multiple cashes here at The Festvial series, and Szymon Politowski are just some amongst the 59 strong field still going here in King’s Resort in Rozvadov.
Only 12.5% of the field will progress in the final non-turbo flight to the marquee tournament of the series – The Festival Main Event.
When the recap is released tomorrow afternoon, you will find out who will progress to Day 2 and the results of the first High Roller, the €1,100 PLO.
Five remain and four will be paid in the PLO High Roller. Leaderboard first and second Ville Hakala and Kare Hallamaa have been eliminated before the money in sixth and seventh but both will pick up leaderboard points for their efforts.
Fabian Bartuschk, Allan Arjut, Josef Dvorak, Vasilis Nikolas, and Richard Koppel remain in the field, all vying for the title.
Stefan Petri wins Melvin’s favorite tournanemnt – the Razz Big Bounty, besting Enrique Manfred Bergemann for a score of €700 plus around twenty bounty tokens worth €100 a piece. Bergemann had claimed eight bounties.
Jos Thannha has bubbled the Razz Big Bounty here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. He was by far the shortest stack of the four that remained. Here are the three payout places, not inclusive of bounties.
The Razz Big Bounty is down to its final 4 players. Only 3 will be paid due to the Big Bounty nature of the tournament and the 54 total entries the tournament attracted. “EyDuBrot” appears to have the most bounties at the table by a considerable margin, but it is “PATELLA” who leads the waty in chips.
The PLO High Roller has 15 player remaining and only 4 will get paid. Finnish nationals Kare Hallamaa and Ville Hakala remain in contention for additional leaderboard points and a first and second title, respectively.
The Ladies event was unfortunately cancelled earlier this evening due to a lack of entrants.
The Main Event 1E saw 229 total entrants and at the time of writing 47 remain, with 12.5% of the field finding the money and progressing to Day 2.
The Main Event 1F has attracted 136 total entrants thus far, and 101 remain. Registration remains open until 11.55 p.m. local time.
The €200 €30k GTD Friday Texas Hold’em has been in play for an hour and has seen 124 total entrants. Registration closes at 11.55 p.m. local time.
Come and the Festival Team (who are full of beer and meat) on the lawn outside the front of King’s Resort in Rozvadov. We are playing Molky and there are cans of beer!
A field of 10 have taken to the felt in the first High Roller of the series, the €1,100 PLO High Roller. Amongst the small field is Romanian national Marius Alexandru Gicovanu, who has recorded $2,135,209 in live tournament earnings.
He has bagged three six-figure scores in Rozvadov, including two wins (€111,350 and €115,350) and one second-place finish (€164,961). Can he add a first Festival title to his impressive resume?.
Rozvadov regular Rachid El Yacoubi is in the field here at King’s Resort in the Czech countryside. He will be looking to add another big score to his tally, and a first The Festival Series win to his resume. His current recorded Hendon Mob earnings sit at around €760,000, and all five of his biggest scores have come here in Rozvadov, including two deep runs in WSOPE bracelet events last October.
He won the €250 Italian Poker Open for €100,000 in 2021, finished 3rd in the €1,650 6-Max WSOPE Bracelet Event for €53,500 last October and banked €48,700 in the €10,350 WSOPE Main Event Bracelet event at the same series last year.
Paul-Adrian Covaciu has taken to the felt to be a part of the €500,000 guaranteed Festival Series Main Event here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. The Romanian national has racked up $1,321,788 in live tournament earnings so far.
His best cash came in a very familiar venue: King’s Resort in Rozvadov. He scored $330,734 for a 5th-place finish in the €10,350 WSOPE Main Event in 2022. His second-best cash of $102,665 also came in Czechia, in the €5,300 Main Event at EPT Prague in the same year. Can he add a first Festival title to his collection?
Day 1E has proved to be a hit here at The Festival Series at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. The €550 buy-in tournament has seen a total of 216 entrants, and 131 remain in the field. The number will continue to grow for the next couple of hours as registration remains open until the conclusion of Level 10, so there is still plenty of time to get involved. Below is a table of the numbers so far.
The field size currently stands at three entrants for the €1,100 PLO High Roller here in Rozvadov. However, the Satellite to the PLO High Roller remains in play, with 16 left in the field battling it out for a ticket.
Of the 16, only 8 will win a ticket, with 9th place securing a cash of €524 for their efforts. Friend of The Festival Allan Arjut aka “ChippingLeaks” remains in contention to qualify for the first High Roller of the Festival.
Check out the highlights from Day 8 of the Festival Series from here in Rozvadov! Shot by Nekita (@hellsjesus on Instagram) and edited by Aleks (@pljuw on Instagram). Drop the guys a follow!
Kare Hallamaa Player of the Series Leader after Day 8
At 4 p.m. local time today, The Festival Series 2025 hosts its first High Roller tournament of this installment here in Rozvadov.
The €1,100 PLO High Roller offers players 25-minute levels and unlimited entries for the first 8 levels. As always, play responsibly and only risk what you can afford to lose. The starting stack will be 100,000 and the blinds commence at 200/500 with a 500 big blind ante.
A total of 184 entrants have been made in The Festival Main Event so far, and 129 remain in the field. The total number should easily the 200 mark within the next hour. Will you be ing the field here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov?
Following another deep run in which Kare Hallamaa finished 3rd in the Deuce to Seven event, the Finn has now opened up a significant lead in the Player of the Series race. Despite having a big lead, he can still be caught, as the Main Event is the one that awards by far the most points to the top few finishers.
Kare Hallamaa, Player of the Series Leader after Day 8
Top 20
We’ve now expanded the table to show the top 20 players, as we enter the latter stages of the Festival in Rozvadov.
Position
Player
Points
1
Kare Hallamaa
204
2
Ville Hakala
152
3
Moreno Rutten
125
4
Horst Boeschen
119
5
Nils Doverklint
117
6
Julien Teissedre
114
7
Sascha Manns
114
8
ChippingLeaks
110
9
Olaf Martin “Franke” von Zweigbergk
110
10
Siarhei Narozhny
107
11
N.J.44
102
12
Yurii Rassamakin
100
13
Barrie Dear
98
14
Johannes Goossens
98
15
TURKEY
98
16
Silver
87
17
Leslie Smith
83
18
Haik Tougu
81
19
Oleksandr Sadovyi
80
20
berserk
78
How Are Player of the Series Points Calculated?
So how does this leaderboard work? I can almost hear some of you thinking this as you’re reading it. For the complete rules on how the leaderboard works, there’s an article on the main site that explains it all, but here’s a brief rundown.
Qualifying Events
Only tournaments that are open to all count, therefore no leaderboard points for cash game challenge, Festival Queens or the Seniors
Satellites do not count either
Participation Points
Players get points for simply taking part, but these can only be earned once per tournament, you don’t get extra points for extra bullets.
The amount of participation points is based on the buy-in of the event, the full breakdown is in the article linked above.
Base Points
Players “in the money” are awarded base points, with 25 awarded to the winner, 20 for second, 18 for third etc.
But if there is a deal, the points awarded to those involved in the deal are frozen and all are awarded the points earned by the player in the lowest finishing position in the deal, e.g. if three players, make a deal, they all receive the points awarded for a 3rd place finish.
Multiplier
A multiplier related to how many entries there were in the tournament is applied to the base points.
Total Point Per Event = (Base Points x Multiplier) + Participation Points
Fresh off his success in the record-breaking Hendon Mob Championship, Haik Tougu has ed the field of 130 in The Festival Main Event Day 1E. There have been 162 total entrants thus far, and registration remains open until 6.45 p.m. local time.
A field of 113 total entrants has already hit the tables at King’s Resort in Rozvadov, and it isn’t even the third level yet! Here is a table of the numbers from the previous flights in this Festival Series.
Social media extraordinaire Lemon Poker took to Hospitality hosting duties yesterday here in Rozvadov. Check out a selection of photos taken by our resident “EstonianWeirdo” Mairo Toom.
As the blogger finally emerges this morning and is working on the recap, here is a hand history from last night’s Texas Turbo Friday Madness involving The Festivals’ very own Melvin Schroen.
The blinds were at 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 big blind ante. Schroen opened from the cutoff to 4,200 and was three-bet by the button to 10,000. The blinds folded, and Schroen called.
He check-called a bet of 6,500 on the flop of K 10 J before the Q was checked around. The 9 put a straight on board, and Schroen checked again. The button then bet 15,000, and after some deliberation, Schroen folded.
He found the money, finishing in 23rd place for his effort, and was coolered in the process. He open-jammed approximately 13 big blinds from under the gun with Kings and was called by the big blind, who was playing a stack of around 15 big blinds. He made the call with fives, and a five in the window sealed Schroen’s fate and sent him up to his hotel room for the night. Unlucky lad!
“Dagobert”, a German national is the bubble boy in the 2-7 Triple Draw. Fellow countryman Benedict Kaiser departed in ninth and Latvian Raimonds Svans was next out in eight.
A field of 49 unique entries has been whittled down to the final 11. Allan Arjut, Kare Hallamaa, and Julien Teissedre all remain in the field looking for additional Festival cashes and leaderboard points here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov at the Festival Series.
Even more from The Festival Series photographer Mairo Toom. A general selection of shots from across the tournament area today and yesterday. Give him a follow on Instagram: @EstonianWeirdo
Here are the payouts for the €150 2-7 Triple Draw. A field of 28 remain to battle it out for a title in the one and only Triple Draw tournament this festival.
Horst Boschen was eliminated early and his quest for a third title has been put on hold. Kare Hallamaa will be looking to add yet another cash and leaderboard points to keep him in contention to win a €1,600 package to the next Festival Series Event in Malta this coming September.
Krzysztof Kordus has emerged as the Open Face Chinese champion here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. He bested Yurii Rassamakin heads-up to secure the title. Below are the payouts in full.
The Open Face Chinese is three-handed, with Krzysztof Kordus, Yurii Rassamakin and “Guverner” all battling it out for the title. Below are the payouts so far.
Kare Hallamaa continues to run well here at The Festival Series at King’s Resort in Rozvadov.
He won a 10-handed PLO flip making a boat, and also a 5-handed flip, outkicking one of the King’s staff in a trips v trips situation. Hallamaa had J3 vs T3.
A Super Satellite to the Main Event Day 1E is set to commence at 8 p.m, as are Franke’s Flips that will take place at tables 11 and 12, which are located near the tournament registration area.
The flips are €25 and rake free! Get involved to qualify for the final flip off, which commences on Sunday at 1.30 p.m. local time. Come and the fun!
One unfortunate player is set to miss out on a minimum cash of €40 or a €550 Main Event ticket as the bubble is in effect here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. Only 15 remain of the 167 that entered.
A field of 41 have taken to the felt for the €125 2-7 Triple Draw here in King’s Resort in Rozvadov. Dual Festival winner Horst Boschen is in the field hunting his third title.
The tournament offered a €3,000 guarantee before the off, but the prize pool has ballooned to a total of €4,305! Registration remains open until 9.55 p.m. local time so there is still time for the prize pool to grow even more!
Francisco Arenas is the bubble boy in the Open Face Chinese tournament here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. The payouts have now been announced. See the table below for the rundown of who will win what.
Registration will close shortly for the Open Face Chinese. A field of 28 remain of the 91 total entrants, 61 of which were unique entries. The €10,000 guarantee has been smashed, with the prize pool currently standing at €19,110.
If you would like to learn more about “OFC”, click here to find out more about this interesting points-based variant of poker.
Only two levels left of registration remain here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. A field of 76 remains out of a total of 126 total entrants.
The second of the two flights that run today commences at 6 p.m,. and two flights will run tomorrow at the same starting times of 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.
The same again will occur on Sunday, but the first flight will be a turbo flight with 15-minute blinds, and the final flight is a Flip and Go Pineapple variant.
Check out the Highlights from Day 7 of The Festival Series 2025 in Rozvadov. The Hospitality events, and the poker, is now in full swing, with the first flights to the Main Event having taken place.
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If you are one of the lucky players who win a tournament, or in Horst Boschen’s case, two tournaments, feel free to collect your portrait from the table on the tournament table before you head home from The Festival Series here in Rozvadov.
The Cash Game Challenge has been running here at King’s Resort during this installment of The Festival Series 2025.
Below are the current rankings, and it’s Mario Scholz who currently leads the way with a big blind profit of 1,120, which is almost 6 minimum buy-ins worth of gains!
With five events concluding on Thursday, its all change at the top of the leaderboard in the Player of the Series race. Finland’s Kare Hallamaa booked two third place finishes, in the Blakjack and the PLO 4/5/6 events and has now has a 38 point lead over fellow Finn Ville Hakala.
Ville Hakala and Kare Hallamaa
Hakala, who won the PLO 4/5/6, had been in 4th place, but this moves him into clear second place, leapfrogging Horst Günter Böschen and Moreno Rutten. Nils Doverklint who finished 9th in the PLO 4/5/6 moves up to 5th place.
There are also two new entries in the top 10. Debuting at number 6 is Sascha Manns, following his 3rd place finish in the Thursday Texas Turbo Midnight Madness. Barrie Dear, winner of the Blackjack tournament sneaks into the list in 10th place. Franke sits just outside the top 10, 2 points adrift of Barrie, on 92 points.
Sascha Manns
There may be two players from Finland at the top, but this race is still a long away from the Finnish line.
A field of 75 players of 95 total entrants is currently in play here at the King’s Resort in the Czech countryside town of Rozvadov. There are still 5 levels of 40-minutes left to and plenty more flights running from today through to Sunday.
Come and take your seat at the table and be a part of what could be another record-breaking event here at The Festival.
Check out Andreas Hoglund’s interview with flag-hunter extraordinaire Maureen Bloechlinger! The Swiss national has cashed in over 40 countries worldwide! Don’t forget to like, comment, share an subscribe to keep up to date with the Festival action!
Here is our interview with Allan Arjut, who at the time was hunting for his first tournament win. Since then, he has won his first-ever title, which came in a PLO event just a few days ago. As always don’t forget to like, comment, share and subscribe to keep up to date with all the Festival action.
The Festival Series in Rozvadov will see its first Open Face Chinese tournament run today at noon local time. A field of 10 has already ed for this unique variant of poker. If you are new to the game, click here to learn more about the rules and strategy.
A field of 54 assembled from 11 a.m. this morning in pursuit of qualification to Day 2 of the marquee tournament here at King’s Resort, The Festival Series Main Event, which has seen a total of 254 entries over the first three flights, inclusive of 1C.
For €550, you can take a stab at winning a chunk of the whopping €500,000 prize pool. Come down and get involved, but as always, only stake what you can afford to lose.
Here is a table that shows the current winners of Franke’s Flips. These players will all be in a draw to win a package worth €1,600 to the next Festival Series that takes place in Malta this September.
Today is the last day to get involved with the flips. Entry is €25 and rake free! Come and get involved at 8 p.m. at the tables that are located near the tournament buy-in desk. Here are the results so far.
Maarten Mol is the bubble boy in the Crazy Pineapple. The field has quickly whittled down to 10.
That’s all from the blog tonight. Stay tuned for continued coverage on what will be an exciting day filled with action on and off the tournament floor here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov.
Play in the H.O.R.S.E has resulted in a seven-way chop and a famous Franke Flip for the remaining €300 and the title. Florian Wittich won the flip and took the remainder of the money and the title! Below are the payouts. (BERSERK is pictured above)
Siarhei Narozhny was the victim of the bubble in the H.O.R.S.E here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. The remaining seven are now in the money and all will be keen to take down the title.
TURKEY will add more points to his leaderboard tally, as will Narozhny himself with this deep run. The Boss Martin “Franke” von Zweighbergk has secured his fourth festival cash.
The final table has been assembled here in Rozvadov for the solo mixed game tournament of the day at King’s Resort. Below is the lineup. The Boss still remains at the table, but is fairly short-stacked.
Ville Hakala has secured his first Festival win this series and his fourth cash in total here in Rozvadov. He beat Leslie Smith heads-up, winning €3,060 in the process.
This is how the winning hand played out: Smith called in the small blind. Hakala raised to pot in the big blind and Smith called.
Smith then led out of turn on the flop of A K 2 before checking. Hakala asked the dealer if Smith’s bet still stands if he checks. Hakala then checked and Smith put in the rest of his chips, around 140,000 into a pot of 420,000. Hakala called.
Hakala had Q Q 7 J and Smith had A 2 5 8 . Smith was ahead with top and bottom pair and the 7 changed nothing.
However Hakala spiked a set on the Q river to finish the tournament.
Only Leslie Smith and Ville Hakala remain in the 4/5/6 PLO.
Smith has a mountain to climb, as the chip deficit stands at around 15:1. However as we saw last night in the 8-Game, anything can happen here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov!
A field of 43 unique players has been whittled down to 16 here at the King’s Resort in Rozvadov.
Amongst the runners is The Festival founder Martin “Franke” von Zweighbergk. Can he find his fourth cash of The Festival? Only seven will be paid. Below are the payouts.
The second flight to The Festival Main Event, 1B, has seen a total of 108 entrants take to the tables here at Kings’s Resort in Rozvadov. A field of 74 remain.
There are five levels left of registration, and players receive a 50,000 starting stack for their buy-in. The next level is Level 6 with blinds of 500/1,000 with a 1,000 big blind ante, which equates to 50 big blinds.
Kristjan Laas and Markus Drunagel are out of the 4/5/6 PLO in seventh and sixth, respectively. Hallamaa is set to add to his total leaderboard points haul so far with yet another deep run here in King’s Resort in Rozvadov at The Festival Series 2025. Who will take down the title?
Check out the highlights from Day 6 of The Festival Series from here in Rozvadov. The cards continue to hit the felt and the Hospitality events are in full swing.
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Ten remain in the 4/5/6 PLO (7-Max). Finland’s Kare Hallamaa and ’s Mathias Wieser appear to be leading the way in the chip counts here in King’s Resort in Rozvadov.
Stay tuned to see who makes the seven-handed final table and who comes away with the title.
Thirty-seven remain of the thirty-nine total entrants who took to the felt at 2 p.m. this afternoon here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. Two levels of registration remain, and the field contains the likes of Sascha Manns, Horst Boschen, and Allan Arjut.
One player had to miss out on the money here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov, and unfortunately for Andrea Di Giovanni, it was him. The remaining players are now in the money. Below are the payouts.
A field of 14 have taken to the tables in the pursuit of Main Event glory here at the Kings Resort in Rozvadov. There are 10 levels of registration, so there is plenty of time to come down and get involved, and a satellite to Day 1C will be running later on this evening.
The Turbo Satellite to Main Event – Day 1B has proved popular at King’s Resort at The Festival Series, Rozvadov. There have been 120 total entrants, 87 of which are unique. Only 52 remain with registration now closed. Below is the payout table.
Andreas Hoglund spent some time with Kare Hallamaa at the Blackjack table during The Festival Series Blackjack Tournament that took place here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. Click the video below to check it out and don’t forget to like, comment, share and subscribe to keep up to date with The Festival Series action!
Check out our Interview with a friend of the festival, Dan Pilgrim! He spent some time chatting to Andreas Hoglund. Click the video below and don’t forget to like, comment, subscribe, and share.
A further four events that qualify for the Rozvadov Player of the Series race were completed on Wednesday, after which three players have emerged as front runners in the race for the €1,600 package. Horst Günter Böschen took third place in the 8-Game, propelling him to the top of the chart, on 114 points.
Horst Günter Böschen
He is just 2 points ahead of Kare Hallamaa, who also made a final table yesterday, taking 6th in the Wednesday Night Turbo. Moreno Rutten drops back to third, once again all the additional points he earned yesterday were only participation points. Just outside the top ten is Sascha Manns, who took second place in the Wednesday Night Turbo. He has 73 points, just one point below tenth place.
Currently more bounties remain than players here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. The final three are €11,000 bounty puller Anja Schmidt, Mariya Todorova and Mikhail Zaitsev.
The two €6,000 bounties remain in play, adding an extra element to the fixed prize pool.
Koen Roos has a commanding chip lead, estimated to be around 9 or 10:1, over his opponent Markus Binder. Horst Boschen departed in third place. Below are the payouts so far.
The field of 71 that started Day 2 of The Festival Series in Rozvadov has streamlined to 7-handed play here at King’s Resort. The two €6,000 bounties remain in play. Below is the current final table lineup.
Allan Arjut is the bubble boy in the €250 8-Game here at The Festival Series in Rozvadov. He won’t be adding to his first Festival title in this event.
Horst Boschen is in contention for his third Festival Series title here in Rozvadov.
Koen Roos will earn his 21st Hendon Mob flag, having made the money in this event.
Hospitality package holders were treated to fun, food, and games at the local Vian Restaurant in Rozvadov, which specialises in Asian cuisine. See below for more details about the hospitality events click here.
Below is a selection of photos from the event that took place this evening.
A total of 9 remain and only 8 will find the money in the €250 8-Game here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. Stay tuned to find out who falls to the bubble and who takes home the title!
Only a field of 21 remains after the first three hours of play. The biggest bounties remain in play at King’s Resort in this year’s Rozvadov installment of The Festival Series NLH Mystery Bounty event.
After six-hours of play today, the €550 Mixed Game HORSES Main Event has crowned a winner! German national “N.J.44” has finished on top of the 20 that took to the felt today here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov!
The final three agreed on an ICM chop for the payouts, but Lechner is the champion! Below is the full payout table.
Click the video below to hear Mairo Toom’s interview with Check record-breaking Hendon Mob Champ Haik Tougu. This interview was conducted in Estonian, and there is also an English version on the same channel.
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The final five remain in the €550 Mixed Game Main Event HORSES here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. German national Sascha Manns fell victim to the bubble, meaning a new champion will be crowned when play concludes this evening.
Henrik Louwers departed in sixth, the first cash place, for €1,505.
The first flight to the €500,000 guaranteed Festival Main Event starts tonight at 6 p.m.
Will you be in the field to take down the title just like Presiyan Tsvetanov did at this event last year? He took home €90,350 from just a €550 buy-in!
The payouts have been released ahead of the NLH Mystery Bounty – Final Day which commences in just shy of 20-mintues time here at King’s Resort, Rozvadov. The bounty payouts will be released in due course.
Seven players remain in contention to become a Festival Series Main Event Winner, with Sascha Manns looking to defend his title. Here is the lineup and seating arrangement.
King of Kings: Mixed Games Main Event Champion Sascha Manns
The €250 8-Game is set to commence at 4 p.m. Like HORSES, 8-Game is a tournament that offers, you guessed it, 8 different variants of poker, with one different variant taking place each level.
8-Game consists of: 2-7 Triple Draw, Limit Hold’em, Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, Razz (click to learn more), Seven Card Stud, Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better, No-Limit Hold’em, and Pot-Limit Omaha.
Additionally, this guide will give you more information on Texas Hold’em, PLO Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud, and Stud Hi-Lo!
Only six of the remaining 20 players will find the money in the Mixed Games Main Event HORSES here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. See the table below to see which place will receive which prize.
The Festival Series 2025 has been running satellites to the €550 Main Event since Day 1 of this installment of the series here in Rozvadov.
Today, there are two chances to bag a ticket to the marquee event, the first of which takes place at 3 p.m. local time. The Turbo Satellite to Main Event – Day 1A is and €80 event with 15-minute levels and unlimited re-entries for the first 8 levels of play.
Day 1A then commences at 5 p.m. local time. However, the second satellite runs shortly after that in the form of the Super Satellite to Main Event – Day 1B. Again an €80 buy-in with the same re-entry and registration parameters. Both satellites will provide players with a 10,000 chip starting stack.
Come down and play, it is incredible value for money considering the €500,000 prize pool on offer in this Main Event! Check out the full schedule here.
Check out the highlights from Day 4 of The Festival Series Rozvadov 2025. There is still plenty more to come throughout the coming days. Come down and get involved in the €550 Main Event!
The Cash Game Challenge has been running here at King’s Resort at The Festival Series in Rozvadov. Check out the video below to see some of the action that has been taking place at the palace of poker’s featured table.
Day 5 of the Festival saw the continuation of flights to the NLH Mystery Bounty – Day 1C (€100 Bounty), the final flight of the Mixed Games Main Event HORSES, and a multiway deal in the Seniors 50+ event, as well as the arrival of package qualifiers from online tournaments. The blackjack tournament started and ran deep into the night here at Europe’s palace of poker, Kings Resort. Let’s have a look at what happened.
Seniors 50+ Event
Two players took to the felt today looking for a third Festival title. One was Swedish national Joakim Olin, who was looking for a third seniors title.
Unfortunately for him, he couldn’t top the rankings and he departed in sixth place, taking the first of the cash prizes on offer.
The final table resulted in a deal, and it turned out that Olin didn’t, claim the last cash prize, as Angela Jauß received a €300 bubble stipend for her efforts. The final five ICM chopped the rest of the prize pool, and it was Maltese national Joseph Grech who came out on top with the title. Below is the full list of payouts.
Seniors Event 50+
Position
Player
Country
Payout
1
Joseph Grech
🇲🇹
€2,164*
2
Roman Karl Cieslik
🇩🇪
€1,931*
3
Siarhei Tsentsevitski
🇧🇾
€1,912*
4
Hassan Fouladgar
🇩🇪
€1,729*
5
Roland Alexander Di Huebscher
🇩🇪
€1,388*
6
Joakim Olin
🇸🇪
€656
7
Angela Jauß
🇩🇪
€300**
* Denotes deal
**Bubble stipend
PLO Tuesday Knockout (Bounty 25€)
Dual Rozvadov winner Horst Boschen couldn’t complete a hattrick in this event and he was one of the first players to take to the table and to depart as he bust within the first few hands.
This bounty tournament saw a total of 102 entrants, with 67 unique players taking to the felt in pursuit of a title and lots of bounties.
The tournament ran deep into the night at King’s Resort, and it was Estonian national Allan Arjut, aka “ChippingLeaks”, who bested Finnish national and Festival Series regular Sami Pullianen heads-up to take down the title. Below is the full payouts exclusive of bounties won.
This is Arjut’s first ever recorded victory across all variants of poker. Arjut has recorded 11 second-place finishes and 6 third-place finishes. Now the Estonian has completed the podium place finishes with a victory here at The Festival Series in Rozvadov.
Position
Player/Nickname
Country
Payout
1
Allan Arjut aka “ChippingLeaks”
🇪🇪
€ 2,167
2
Sami Aleksi Pulliainen
🇫🇮
€ 1,506
3
Victor B.
🇩🇪
€ 996
4
Nils Leif Michael Doverklint
🇸🇪
€ 779
5
Burbone
🇮🇹
€ 628
6
Bohdan Zahurskyi
🇺🇦
€ 490
7
TURKEY
🇹🇷
€ 388
8
Nuno Miguel Campos Antunes
🇵🇹
€ 302
9
Georgios Toumpoulis
🇬🇷
€ 228
10
KAZERO
🇫🇷
€ 175
11
Falk Henrik Adrian Louwers
🇳🇱
€ 175
12
Carlo Braccini
🇮🇹
€ 163
13
Antti Juhani Honkala
🇫🇮
€ 163
Today’s Schedule June 11th
Time
Tournament
GTD
Buy-in
11:00
NLH Mystery Bounty – Day 1D Turbo (100€ Bounty)
100 000 €
250€
13:00
Mixed Games Main Event HORSES – Final Day
25 000 €
15:00
Turbo Satellite to Main Event – Day 1A
5 500 €
80€
16:00
8-Game
10 000 €
250€
17:00
NLH Mystery Bounty – Final Day
100 000 €
18:00
The Festival Main Event – Day 1A
500 000 €
550€
19:00
Super Satellite to Main Event – Day 1B
5 500 €
80€
21:00
PLO Wednesday Night Turbo
5 000 €
125€
That’s all, folks. Stay tuned to The Festival Series on social media and on the live blog for continued coverage of this years Rozvadov installment of the Festival Series.
There have been a total of 487 entrants so far across all flights to the €250 NLH Mystery Bounty (€100 Bounty), 242 of which are unique.
This means the guarantee of €100,000 has become €102,690, and there is still time for that number to grow. The bounty prize pool stands at €48,900, and the payout structure will see €53,000 in that side of the prize pool,
Fight 1D of the NLH Mystery Bounty – (€100 Bounty) is in play here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov.
This is the flight before Day 2 kicks off today at 5 p.m. local time. Blinds are currently at 300/600 with a 600 big blind ante, Level 4. Registration opens until the conclusion of Level 10, and blinds run for 15 minutes in duration.
Just one further event that counts towards the Player of the Series raced was completed on Tuesday, the €125 PLO Tuesday knockout. None of the players who were in the top ten cashed in the event, but the top two both played, picking up additional participation points.
Horst Günter Böschen and Moreno Rutten are now both on 84 points. Kare Hallamaa also played and moved up one spot to 3rd, overtaking Haik Tougu.
Kare Hallamaa
Maureen Bloechlinger has now dropped out of the top ten and the news has just come in that she won’t be returning to the Festival later in the week.
There is one significant new entry in the top 10, Nils Doverklint debuts on the leaderboard in 6th place, following his 4th place in the PLO Knockout. But the race is wide open, with only 5 points difference between 1st and 5th place. With most of the big events yet to come, there’s likely to be some big changes at the top of the leaderboard in the next few days.
Here is the list of payouts from the Seniors 50+ Event ,which ended in a deal. Joseph Grech came out best and gets first place money and a portrait made to commemorate his victory.
The final five have struck a deal in the Seniors 50+ Event here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. The numbers will be officially released shortly by the tournament staff here in Czechia.
Some well-known regulars of the Festival Series have arrived at King’s Resort, Rozvadov, on the eve of the first flight of the €550 Main Event.
Norwegian Ronny Albrigsten, flaghunter Koen Roos, everyone’s favourite Antoine Digiorgio, and our last Tallinn Weekender Main Event Champion Risto Viljur.
King’s Resort has seen some resounding numbers so far this series across a range of events, and many more are on their way to the Czech countryside to take part in the festivities on and off the felt.
There is plenty more action to come from here in Rozvadov, and if you’re thinking of ing us, click here to find out more about travelling to the venue.
A further two events concluded on Monday at Kings Casino, where The Festival in Rozvadov is now on its fifth day, but not quite yet at the halfway mark of the 11-day poker extravaganza.
The results have been checked and verified, and I can now reveal that there’s a change at the top of the leaderboard. Haik Tougu hasn’t added any further points to his total since his THMC win and has slipped down to third place. He’s been overtaken by Horst Boeschen and Moreno Rutten, who are tied on 82 points.
Horst added to his PLO win on Friday by taking down the Holdem 6+ (Short Deck), while Moreno has played in almost every event so far and has bumped his score up purely with participation points.
Player
Points
Horst Boschen
82
Moreno Rutten
82
Haik Tougu
81
Kare Hallamaa
80
Johannes Goosens
77
Ville Hakala
69
Philipp Klok
62
Doofy Downswinger*
58
Maureen Bloechlinger
57
Fabio Eckel
53
*Nickname used
But wait, somebody is missing, there’s absolutely no sign anywhere on the leaderboard of double Player of the Series winner (should have been 3-time, could have been more) Scott “Pokerbrahs” Kenyon. What the actual heck? Turns out he’s not very well at the moment and has had to give this edition of The Festival Series a miss. Get better soon Scott, hope to see you at the Malta edition in September.
No news yet of whether Maureen Blochlinger will make an unscheduled return to Czechia to maintain her challenge for the title. Having not played on Monday, she’s now slipped a little further back on the leaderboard, but could still potentially challenge for the €1,600 Malta package, if she makes a return.
Come down and the nine entrants who will be taking to the felt in the PLO Tuesday Knockout (Bounty €25).
Action will be a plenty in a knockout version of “The Great Game” here at King’s Casino in Rozvadov, Czechia. There are 8 levels of registration, and players will be able to an unlimited number of times. Of course, be gamble aware and only stake what you can afford to lose!
Can Horst Boschen win his third title of the series?
The final table of nine has been assembled in the Seniors Event 50+ here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov, Czechia. Below is the lineup, which includes Joakim Olin, who’s aiming for his third The Festival Seniors title. Only six will be paid for this event.
Franke’s Flips is set to take place at the tables near the tournament registration area!
For just €25, you can flip your way to glory in a series of “stand and goes” in a quest to win a pair of Franke’s fabled flip flops and tournament credits! Come in the fun!
Oh, and there’s a chance to win a Malta package worth €1,600!
Only 18 remain of a total field of 103 entrants in the Satellite to Day 1C of the Mystery Bounty – Day 1C here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. Whoever busts next will miss out on the €250 ticket but will claim a cash prize of €78 for their efforts.
Time to raise a glass and officially open the Hospitality Program!
us for welcome drinks where the atmosphere is relaxed, the drinks are flowing (on the house), and excitement is in the air.
Federico and Franke will deliver a warm welcome and introduce the rules for the massive 29-hour Blackjack Tournament.
We’ll also do Hospitality FLIPS to award Black Jack tickets—1 per 8 players. This is where the week’s fun gets real, and where you might win your first advantage for the games to come.
For more information on the hospitality events, click here.
A distinctly unique tournament is set to run here at The Festival Series 2025 at the King’s Resort in Rozvadov.
The Blackjack Tournament is a €125 buy-in and will be held on the gaming floor. Players will have a 10-hand session per entry, and the top 10% of all scores win prizes!
If you’re interested in ing in on the action, click here for more details from Melvin!
The third of four flights to Day 2 of the NLH Mystery Bounty – Day 1C (€100 Bounty) tournament starts tonight at 6 p.m.
This is the final non-turbo flight, with levels set at 30-minutes in duration. Currently, 23 have bagged for Day 2, will you be ing them at the table come tomorrow night?
A field of 16 has taken to the felt in the second and final flight to the Mixed Games Main Event HORSES Day 2.
There is plenty of time to as the tournament is still within the first level of play, and registration remains open until the conclusion of Level 10.
The Festival’s founder Martin “Franke” von Zweigbergk is in the field, so if you fancy taking your chances trying to stack The Boss, come down and buy-in!
For those new to Mixed Games, click here to learn the rules of each game that is played.
The Seniors Event 50+ is currently taking place here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. Currently, a field of 32 remains of the 46 total entrants. Thirty-nine of the 44 entrants are unique, and registration remains open for the remaining 18-minutes of the current level (5) and the entirety of the next 30-minute level (6). The buy-in for this event is €250.
The Hendon Mob Championship winner Haik Tougu spent some time with our very own Andreas Hoglund! See the video below to find out more about our record-breaking winner.
Chip counts have been released from the first flights of the €250 NLH Mystery Bounty (€100 Bounty) tournament here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. Below is the table of 1Bs progressing players. The flight saw a total 111 entrants.
Chip counts have been released from the first flights of the €250 NLH Mystery Bounty (€100 Bounty) tournament here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. Below is the table of 1A’s progressing players. The flight saw a total 69 entrants.
The Hendon Mob Championship winner Player of the Series race, with 81 points, 77 of which he banked with his win. However, the Estonian is only 2 points ahead of Moreno Rutten from Netherlands, who has cashed in four events so far at Kings Casino, Rozvadov.
Four of the players in the current top ten are those who made the final table of The Hendon Mob Championship with Omaha Masters winner Oleksandr Sadovyi sneaking into the top ten.
Maureen Bloechlinger currently sits in 5th place with 57 points, having made final tables in both the Friday and Saturday Texas Madness events. She’s unlikely to challenge for the €1,600 Malta package, as she has already returned home to Switzerland. But its only an eight hour drive, so we won’t rule out the possibility that she returns.
Maureen Bloechlinger
With six events of The Festival in Rozvadov now completed, here’s an early peek at the Player of the Series leaderboard.
Horst Boeschen has won his SECOND title at The Festival Series 2025 here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov!
He has added the €125 Holdem 6+ Bounty (Short deck) (Bounty €25) title to his victory in the €150 PLO Championship from the first day of the festival! He topped a field of 109 entrants, 59 of which were unique. Judging by the stack of bounty cards Boeschen had in front of him, it looks like he secured a decent portion of the bounties that were put into play, on top of the €2,189 first-place prize! Below is the payout table, not including bounties earned.
Franke’s Flips is set to take place at the tables near the tournament registration area! For just €25, you can flip your way to glory in a series of “stand and goes” in a quest to win a pair of Franke’s fabled flip flops and tournament credits! Come in the fun!
Oh, and there’s a chance to win a Malta package worth €1,600!
The first of two Cash Game Challenges is set to commence at 8 p.m. this evening.
Today will start with “The Great Game” of PLO, with the minimum buy-in set at €200. The challenge will be held on the featured table, which will be streamed on King’s Casino’s YouTube channel.
The challenge is decided on a leaderboard basis, meaning whoever finishes up the most amount of money during the challenges will win a €1,600 package to the next installment of The Festival Series in Malta!
Feel free to tune in and check it out when the action kicks off shortly.
Seven players have become four at a decent pace here in Rozvadov. Here is a look at the current payouts, all of which exclude bounties earned throughout play today.
Stefano Bertoldi was all in for 6,000 in the big blind with the blinds at 3,000/6,000.
Torsten Rink called from under the gun, as did the €150 PLO Championship winner, Horst Boeschen.
The J K J 6 8 runout was checked down by the two non-all-in players. Boeschen believed that Bertoldi had the winner as he tabled 10 7 . Bertoldi had a slightly better holding with 10 9 but it was Rink’s Q 10 for queen-high, which was good enough to secure the pot and Bertoldi’s bounty.
Today, players will have the opportunity to qualify for Day 2 of the ever-popular Mystery Bounty format. The €250 NLH Mystery Bounty – Day 1B (€100 Bounty) starts today at 6 p.m.
This is the second of four flights to the €100,000 event here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov and the only Mystery Bounty tournament of this installment of The Festival Series.
Registration will remain open for the first 10 Levels of play, each lasting 30-minutes in duration. Players will receive a stack of 50,000 chips for their buy-in and blinds will commence at 100/300 with a 300 big blind ante.
Here are the payouts for the €125 6+ Short Deck Bounty tournament from here at the King’s Resort in Rozvadov, Czechia, and a gallery of the players in action!
A unique tournament in The Festival Series 2025 in Rozvadov is set to commence shortly. The Sviten Special is a €250 buy-in event has a guarantee of a €10,000 prize pool and is sure to be popular amongst the Scandinavian contingent that have come to the Czech countryside. Players are allowed unlimited re-entries over the first 8 levels of play and levels run for 30-minutes in duration each.
Also known as “Drawmaha” in the States, if you would like to know more about this game, click here to learn about the rules and dynamics of this particular poker variant.
Twelve players have taken to the felt in the first flight of one of the marquee events here at The Festival Series in Rozavadov.
This is the first of two flights, the second of which takes place tomorrow. Registration in this flight remains open until Level 10, so there is plenty of time to get involved as the first Level remains in play. Each level runs for 30-minutes and players will receive a 40,000 starting stack for their buy-in.
Currently taking place on the King’s Resort tournament floor today.
The first satellite to the Mixed Games HORSES – Day 1A is underway, and saw 28 unique entries. The only short deck tournament is also in play, and 36 have entered so far, and two have already busted in the first 15 minutes of play.
Registration Holdem 6+ Bounty (Short deck) (Bounty €25) remains open for the first 6 levels, and players can enter as many times as they like. Come in the fun!
Day 3 of The Festival series has seen a record-breaking event champion crowned here in Rozvadov! The latest installment of the Hendon Mob Championship found its latest winner at Europe’s largest poker room, the King’s Resort, and The Festival’s first Schafkopf champion was discovered! Without further ado, let’s jump in.
Record-breaking Hendon Mob Champion has been crowned!
Haik Tougu of Estonia took the title in the small hours of this morning after a marathon 14-hour session in the King’s Resort cardroom. He bested the record-breaking field of 2,418 across the three-day event here in Rozvadov.
He bested German national Philipp Klok heads-up in just ten hands, due to having a fairly substantial chip advantage, having eliminated three players at the final table before going on to stack Klok.
Tougu has walked away with a career-best cash of €51,300, an incredible return on investment from the €150 buy-in, a total of 343x the buy-in! His largest ever cash before this event came back in 2016. He finished 2nd in a €110 No Limit Hold’em event at the OlyBet series in Tallinn for €2,100.
The Hendon Mob Championship Action
The Day 2 field of 292 condensed to under 100 at a fairly steady pace when the tournament began yesterday at 6 p.m.
The bust-outs eased off around the 65-70 player mark as shorter stacks were absorbed by the bigger stacks around the room. Seemingly, everyone came to play, and with a 20-25 big blind average in play across the room, stacks were fairly shallow. The general quality of play on display was solid from what was seen at the feature table, and I highly recommend that poker fans around the world check out the stream.
Final Table Play
Tougu dispatched four players at the final table, but came into the final table in sixth place, with eventual runner-up Klok coming into the final table in first place, which just goes to show that anything is possible in poker and no deficit is insurmountable given a good string of cards and some run good.
Italian national “Sino” was one of a handful of players to make it into Day 2 with a stack of over 1,000,000 chips. He started in fourth.
Tougu’s spin-up started when he dispatched Lukas Rath in eighth place. He won a flip with pocket fours versus Rath’s ace-queen offsuit after the latter moved all in for five big blinds over Tougu’s early position open to win a 10,000,000 chip pot.
A few hands later, Adrianus van Dongen was on the wrong end of a cooler as he ran pocket Queens into Tougu who woke up with Kings. Van Dongen opened from under the gun before Tougu three-bet from the small blind. Van Dongen called, and the runout was clean for Tougu, and he rocketed up the counts, having won the 60 big blind pot.
Tougu and Klok tangled throughout. Klok won a classic preflop race with Queens versus Tougu’s ace-king offsuit shortly after scooping the pot with Kings to peg back the eventual winner. He flopped top set to secure a crucial double-up.
The remainder of Van Dongen’s chips eventually found their way into the stack of Tougu when Van Dongen moved all in on the turn of a double flush draw board. Tougu flopped a set of sevens, and Van Dongen couldn’t improve.
Klok eliminated “Max Value” with both players having hit a four-liner to a flush in a preflop all-in situation. Klok made the nut flush with ace-nine offsuit which bested Max Value’s nine-high flush with pocket nines.
Tougu then sent “Doofy Downswinger” to the rail, winning another flip with fives versus “Downswinger’s” king-jack offsuit to take play heads-up with a substantial advantage, before going on to bust Klok after ten-hands of play. Below is the winning hand!
The Winning Hand!
The Hendon Mob Championship Final Table Payouts!
Player Name/Nickname
Nationality
Payout
Haik Tougu
€ 51,850
Philipp Klok
€ 27,300
Doofy Downswinger
€ 18,800
Max Value
€ 13,700
Adrianus Van Dongen
Netherlands
€ 11,550
Daniele Barbera
Italy
€ 8,800
Lukas Rath
€ 6,700
Sino
Italy
€ 5,600
Luca Venece
Italy
€ 3,600
First Festival Schafkopf Champion Crowned!
A new king has been crowned in the “King of Bavarian card games.” Roland Klaus Vollrath bested a 171-strong field over two days of play to win €7,000 and a beautiful glass trophy to add to his cabinet.
Vollrath is no stranger to cashing in Schafkopf events at Kings, as he finished fifth last year for €1,100 in the €155 King’s Schafkopf Masters last year. Click here to see the full payouts.
For more on the rules and how Schafkopf is played, click here to learn more.
Today’s Schedule – June 9th
09.06.2025
Event
Guarantee
Buy In
12:00
Turbo Satellite to Mixed Games HORSES – Day 1A
€2,750
€80
14:00
Holdem 6+ Bounty (Short deck) (Bounty 25€)
€10,000
€125
15:00
Satellite to Mystery Bounty – Day 1B
€2,500
€50
16:00
Mixed Games Main Event HORSES – Day 1A
€25,000
€550
17:00
Sviten Special
€10,000
€250
18:00
NLH Mystery Bounty – Day 1B (100€ Bounty)
€100,000
€250
19:00
Super Satellite to Main Event
€5,500
€80
20:00
Cash Game Challenge PLO €2-€2
21:00
PLO Freezeout
€10,000
€250
22:30
Cash Game Challenge TX NL €2-€2
That’s all for now folks, stay tuned to the live blog and the social media pages for continued coverage from here at The Festival Series in Rozvadov.
The Hendon Mob Championship feature table is schedule to start at 10.30 pm!
Myself and Hendon Mob’s very own Roland Boothby will be taking on commentary duties, and more special guests to witness the record-breaking field play down to its conclusion tonight
The field continues to decrease as 71 remain battling it out to become the champion of the record-breaking Hendon Mob Championship here at King’s Resort, Rozvadov.
The featured table stream will commence from 10 p.m. local time, so be sure to tune in to that on YouTube when it begins!
The assembled field of 296 that made Day 2 here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov has been quickly whittled down to a field of 90 players.
Blinds are currently set at 25,000/50,000 with a big blind ante of 50,000. There are 20-minutes left of the current level (21). The average stack is approximately 1,300,000, which equates to 26 big blinds.
Franke’s Flips is set to take place at the tables near the tournament registration area! For just €25, you can flip your way to glory in a series of “stand and goes” in a quest to win a pair of Franke’s fabled flip flops and tournament credits! Come in the fun!
Oh, and there’s a chance to win a Malta package worth €1,600!
German national Roland Klaus Vollrath has emerged as The Festival’s first 2025 Kings Schafkopf Europa Meisterschaft Champion!
He scored the most amount of points over the two-day tournament to secure the first-place prize of €7,000 and the stunning Kings Schafkopf Europa Meisterschaft trophy!
Action was picked up on the bubble for the payout places. Marcin Karzak was all in and at risk from the cutoff in a multiway all-in versus the covering stacks of Etienne Kobel in the small blind and Abdulaziz Al-Dosari in middle position.
Marcin Karzak: A J
Etienne Kobel: K K
Abdulaziz Al-Dosari: 8 8
The J 2 2 Q 9 runout provided Kobel with two pair, and confirmed Karzak’s elimination from the tournament. He was the first player to receive the extra €44 on top of the €300 from the flight.
Unfortunately for Jussi Petteri Pohjanharju, he missed out on the payout places and a shot at the grand prize as he fell in 225th place.
The one and only Mystery Bounty event at this year’s Rozvadov installment of The Festival is set to start at 6 p.m. today.
The NLH Mystery Bounty – Day 1A (100€ Bounty) is a €250 buy-in event, with €100 of each buy-in being put into the bounty prize pool! The tournament will have a €50,000 total prize pool, and each player will receive a 50,000 chip starting stack for their buy-in.
The payouts have been announced as the dealers shuffle up and deal for Day 2 of the Hendon Mob Championships!
All players in the field have wrapped up €300 for their efforts thus far, with the top two from each flight receiving €300 and a €550 Main Event ticket, hence the smaller priced min-cashes on offer.
The €50 to Day 1A has kicked off at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. 27 players have taken to the felt to try and qualify for the first Flight, which kicks off at 6 p.m. this evening.
Finnish national Kare Valtteri Hallamaa (pictured, centre) won the first 8-handed flip of The Hendon Mob Championship – Day 1 Flip and Go Pineapple! He flopped two pair, which proved to be the winner after all the cards were tabled.
Hallamaa has added a Day 2 ticket to his second-place finish of €3,490 in the €250 PLO Masters last night.
The Hendon Mob Championship – Day 1 Flip and Go Pineapple is about to start at table 18, which is located near the tournament buy-in desk and buffet area.
Come get involved! You won’t want to miss out on being a part of history by making Day 2 of the record-breaking Hendon Mob Championship!
Additionaly, registration has closed in Flight 1D, which attracted a field of 433 total entries, 306 being unique. 240 players remain.
The Flip and Go Pineapple Flight commences at 2 p.m. and will be the last chance saloon for players looking to qualify for the record-breaking Hendon Mob Championship here in Rozvadov.
The second and final day of the Kings Schafkopf Europa Meisterschaft is currently in play.
The tournament, featuring the “King of Bavarian card games”, will play to a conclusion today here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. The event has seen a total of 171 entrants, 32 of which will cash.
For more information on Schafkopf, and a look at the trophy, click here.
Oleksandr Saovyi of Ukraine has won the €250 PLO Masters tournament here at the King’s Resort in Rozvadov.
He overcame Kare Valtteri Hallamaa of Finland heads-up, overcoming a decent sized chip deficit in the process and bagging a score of €4,909 players after around seven hours of play here at The Festival series and becomes our second PLO champion. Below is the payouts table.
The PLO Masters is down to its final three players, who have all secured a four-figure score for their efforts here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov.
Festival founder “Franke” von Zweigbergk fell in fifth place, securing the second of six four-figure sums for his efforts. Below is the current payout list.
Position
Player
Nationality
Payout
1
€4,909
2
€3,490
3
€2,285
4
Volodymyr Hera
Ukraine
€1,758
5
Martin “Franke” von Zweigbergk
Sweden
€1,392
6
Joaquim Ferreira
Portugal
€1,089
7
Hermanus Rutten
Netherlands
€857
8
Christopher Berthold
€669
9
Allan Arjut
Estonia
€509
10
Danail Lyubomirov Zhelev
Bulgaria
€446
11
Tolga Karakaya
€446
The final three players are: Manuel Koeberl, Oleksandr Sadovyi and Kare Valtteri Hallamaa. Who will come out on top?
It’s official! The Festival Series here in Rozvadov, Czechia, has hosted the largest ever field assembled for The Hendon Mob Championships! Not just in Europe, but the entire world!
The total entrants currently stands at 1,611 players, eclipsing the record set at the Lincoln Resort in the United States of America in 2023.
Only 9 remain in the €250 PLO Masters tournament here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. One of which is The Festival’s very own head honcho, Martin “Franke” von Zweigbergk!
Across all flights, a total of 1,550 have entered this year’s Hendon Mob Championship here in Rozvadov!
Currently in Flight 1C, 71 players are remaining of 501 at the start of Level 17. The blinds are at 8,000/16,000 with a 16,000 big blind ante.
In Flight 1D, 267 remain of 346 players. The field is retaking their seats as they were sent on break ten minutes ago. The blinds will resume at 400/800 with an 800 big blind ante, and registration remains open for six more levels, so there is still plenty of time for the record to be broken today!
In 15-minutes, one of the highlight events of The Festival is set to start at 8 p.m.
Franke’s Flips Flops is set to take place at the tables near the tournament registration area! For just €25, you can flip your way to glory in a series of “stand and goes” in a quest to win a pair of Franke’s fabled flip flops and tournament credits! Come in the fun!
Half way through the third level of the Hendon Mob Championship here at King’s Resort, Rozvadov, a field of 243 are in play and a total of 273 entries have been made on the final flight of the day!
Across all flights, a grand total of 1,500 have entered into the Hendon Mob Championship, meaning the record of 1,605 is at threat of being smashed.
Half way through the start of Level 1 here in King’s Resort, Rozvadov, a field of 160 have assembled to battle it out in Flight 1D of the Hendon Mob Championship.
The field consists of 19 qualifiers via the €40 satellite that ran from 3 p.m. till 6 p.m. today.
The results are in from the satellite to 1D of the Hendon Mob Championship here in Rozvadov.
Maximilian Leopold Drechsel missed out on the €140 cash, which would have meant he only needed to add €10 to the cash to buy-in to the flight directly. Below are the full results.
With just two-minutes left to in Flight 1C of the Hendon Mob Championship here in Rozvadov, the flight has received a total of 501 entrants over the first 10-levels of play. A field of 197 remain in this flight.
Of the 89 entrants into the satellite to Flight 1D of the Hendon Mob Championship, 45 remain in pursuit of a ticket to the €150 event. Below are the payouts.
The field of 249 have retaken their seats as play as resumed here in Rozvadov in flight 1C of the Hendon Mob Championship.
This flight’s total entries has reached a total of 464 players and registration remains open for two levels, inclusive of the one that is currently in play now. Action resumes at Level 9 with the blinds at 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 big blind ante.
The second PLO of this installment of The Festival series in Rozvadov is about to get underway shortly.
This event has currently attracted 17 players so far, including yesterday’s €150 PLO Championship winner Horst Boeschen. Last years Rozvadov Mixed Game Main Event winner Sascha Manns is also ed to take to the felt in five-minutes time.
The field in Day 1C of the Hendon Mob Championship have been sent on a 40-minute break. Currently, 252 remain of a total of 446 entrants. This flight has seen 330 unique player entries. When play resumes, there will be two levels of late registration, and the blinds will be 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 big blind ante.
In the satellite to 1D, 49 of the 55 remain of the total entrants. Of the total, 52 are unique entrants. Registration remains open for four more levels, and level 4 is about to start with the blinds at 200/400 with a 400 big blind ante.
A field of 27 is about to take to the felt in the €40 satellite to flight 1D of the Hendon Mob Championship. Late registration is open for 8 levels and with unlimited reentries.
Currently 276 are in the field of the first Hendon Mob Championship flight of the Day!
Flight 1C has attracted 405 total entrants, 320 of which are unique! There are still 3 Levels of registration left, approximately an hour and a half in duration.
Across all flights so far, The Hendon Mob Championship has seen a resounding 1,113 total entrants!
For the next 45-minutes to an hour, come down to the Fan Zone to challenge Mairo at Air Hockey, Andreas at Darts, or me at Foosball!
Up for grabs are 6 tickets per event worth €25 each to Frankes Flips, which take place tonight at 8 p.m. Up for grabs is a priceless, timeless award, a pair of Franke’s very own flip flops.The flips will take place at the tables near to the tournament registration desk.
Everyone is welcome to in the Fan Zone fun to take on The Festival team. Will you take up the challenge?
After just an hour and a half of play has elapsed here in Rozvadov, and already Flight 1C has reached 245 unique player entries. There have been 17 re-entries, taking the total to 262!
Day 2 of The Festival is already underway here in Rozvadov, with The Hendon Mob Championship Flight 1C up and running.
The first flight of the Day has already attracted 163 entrants since the cards were first shuffled up and dealt at 11 a.m. local time. Expect this number to grow exponentially, and it would be no surprise if the 500 runner mark is met.
Presiyan Georgiev Tsvetanov, the reigning Main Event Champion, has taken to the felt once more in the Hendon Mob Championships to try and bag a stack for Day 2. Tsevtanov played Day 1A yesterday, but to no avail.
Schafkopf
At 2 p.m., the King’s Schafkopf Europa Meisterschaft gets underway. Schafkopf is known as “The King of Bavarian card games” in its country of origin, .
The event is expected to see a solid turnout, and it would be no surprise to see the reigning champion Dieter Josef Stapfer take to the felt to defend his title.
For more information on Schafkopf, and a peek at the trophy, click here.
PLO
The second PLO tournament of The Festival also commences today. The €250 Pot Limit Omaha Masters starts at 4 p.m. with a €20,000 prize pool. Horst Boeschen took the first PLO title down yesterday, winning €3,246 after just over seven hours of play. Maybe he will return today and take down another title in the four-card streets.
Satellites and Hendon Mob 1D
Two satellites will also be running today; firstly, at 3 p.m., there will be a satellite to Day 1D of the Hendon Mob Championships, which also starts later on today from 6 p.m. Entry to the Hendon Mob 1D satellite is €40, and registration is open and unlimited for 8 levels.
The second satellite of the day is the €80 super satellite to the Main Event, which starts at 7 p.m. Unlimited re-entries for 8 levels also feature in this structure.
Stay tuned to the live blog and social media platforms for continued coverage from The Festival here in Rozvadov.
After just over seven hours, the €150 PLO Championship has found a winner, and the first winner of The Festival in Rozvadov!
German national Horst Guenter Boeschen has won the event for a total score of €3,246, besting Tiago Martins heads-up. Martins claimed second for €2,255 and Ville Hakala claimed the third podium spot with a score of €1,491. Below is the full table of payouts.
The final five is now the final four in the €150 PLO Championship. German national Victor Joachim Bubak is the latest player to hit the rail, meaning the remaining players are guaranteed a four-figure payout.
The final table of nine has quickly become five in the PLO Championship! Since reaching the final table, it has taken around a level for the remaining players to be whittled down and for play to continue five-handed. Here is an updated payout table, with the final five guaranteed €941 for their effort thus far.
In the Hendon Mob Championship Flight 1B, 177 players remain of the 257 total entrants! With three levels left of registration, that number is bound to grow over the next hour or so.
Currently the tournament is at Level 6 with the blinds at 500/1,000 with a 1,000 big blind ante. Flight 1A saw a total of 227 entrants, and only 40 remain at Level 15 with the blinds at 5,000/10.000 with a 10,000 big blind ante.
In Prague, 52 players are currently in Day 1B in the King’s Casino at the Hilton Hotel, with 61 entrants being made. There, the blinds are also at 500/1,000 with a 1,000 big blind ante during Level 6 of play.
Only 10 remain in the PLO! Here is the updated payout table and with the players now on the final table bubble.
The 2023 Coolbet €550 Main Event Bratislava Champion Ville Hakala (pictured below) is in the field, and he will be looking to add another title to his collection here at The Festival.
In Prague, 18 remain in the first satellite to the Hendon Mob Championship. One player will leave empty-handed, with 17th place receiving €120 for their efforts. The top 16 will receive a ticket to the €150 Hendon Mob Championship.
The €150 PLO Championship and the 1A Flight to the €150 Hendon Mob Championship has now closed.
The PLO Championship attracted a field of 93 players with 28 remaining when play resumes in 15-minutes at Level 9 with the blinds at 1,000/2,000 with a big blind ante.
1A of the Hendon Mob Championship saw 227 total entries and 89 remain to battle it out for a place at the table come Day 2. The blinds are currently set at 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 big blind ante at the start of Level 11.
Flight 1B of The Hendon Mob Championship is underway here in Rozvadov and has already attracted a total of 100 entrants over the first 45-minutes of play.
With late registration closed in 1A, the field size could grow in this flight as players hit the rail after their first attempt at making Day 2.
The blinds are currently at 200/400 with a 400 big blind ante in Level 2, meaning there is plenty of time to and get involved!
King’s Resort in Rozvadov isn’t the only venue where you can qualify for the prestigious Hendon Mob Championship.
Registration has closed in the first satellite running in the Czech capital, which has seen 56 total entries. If you are in the capital and want to get involved, then the next satellite to 1B of the Hendon Mob Championship runs today at 7 p.m. local time.
The 115 players in 1A of the Hendon Mob Championship were sent on dinner break around 30-minutes ago. Here are some of the biggest stacks in the field as play resumes in a few minutes.
Player
Country
Chips
Big Blinds
Achim Prinzing
252,000
252
Tiago Martins
Portugal
240,000
240
Sergiy Bikyetov
Ukraine
223,000
223
Christoph Tanner
Switzerland
209,000
209
Payam Ansarian
United Kingdom
187,000
187
Level 9 will see the blinds increase to 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 big blind ante.
Day 1A of the Hendon Mob Championship has seen a total of 200 entrants so far, with 112 still in the field and Level 9 fast approaching. The blinds are currently 800/1600 with a 1600 big blind ante, meaning a starting stack is good for 31 big blinds. There are still two more levels of registration left for this flight, with 1B starting at 6 p.m.
In the €150 PLO Championship, 67 have entered and 40 remain. Blinds are at 300/600 with a 600 big blind ante, meaning the 20,000 starting stack is now the equivalent of 33 big blinds.
The late registration period for the €30 satellite to Flight 1B of the Hendon Mob Championship is almost at a close and 45 remain in the battle for a €150 ticket. Blinds are currently posted at 500/1,000 with a 1,000 big blind ante.
The Festival 2024 Main Event has taken to the field in Day 1A of The Hendon Mob Championship. Bulgarian Presiyan Georgiev Tsvetanov took down the title last year at this very venue in the €550 Main Event and won €90,350 for his effort, €10,350 of which consisted of a Main Event seat to the WSOPE event which ran last October. This score still stands as Tsevetanov’s largest career cash.
Tsevetanov also played Day 1C of the Hendon Mob Championship last year and took a massive chip lead into Day 2 of last year’s installment, but despite this, he failed to secure a cash. He did claim another podium finish last year, finishing 2nd for €1,587 in the €125 PLO/PLO8 or Better Event two days later. Maybe this year it could be different, and the Bulgarian will be wanting to secure a piece of hardware from Rozvadov and another special portrait.
The King’s Schafkopf Trophy has been revealed ahead of Day 1 of the tournament, which starts at 2 p.m. local time tomorrow, Saturday, June 7th. The €190 buy-in event has a €25,000 prize pool, and only one entry is allowed per player. Day 2 starts bright and early at 11 a.m. on Sunday, June 8th.
Last year, German national Dieter Josef Stapfer topped a world-record-breaking field of 248 players and the lion’s share of the €38,464 prize pool. Stapfer took home €7,100 for his victory in Rozvadov, and it would be no surprise to see him return to King’s to defend his title.
Known as the “King of Bavarian card games”, the classic German card game is sure to prove popular again this year. Schafkopf is played by four people with a special 32-card German deck. The game is all about winning tricks (rounds of cards) and collecting points. The card rankings are displayed below:
Trumps: The most powerful cards are the Obers (O), Unters (U), and all Hearts.
Side Suits: The other cards are Ace (A), Ten (10), King (K), Nine (9), Eight (8), and Seven (7).
The goal is to score at least 61 points out of a total of 120. Points come from the cards you win in tricks: Aces are worth 11 points, Tens are worth 10, Kings are worth 4, Obers are worth 3, and Unters are worth 2. The other cards (9, 8, 7) don’t have any points.
For additional information on this historic German pastime, check out this article here.
The Festival’s first foray into PLO this installment commences shortly with the €150 PLO Championship. The tournament offers a €10,000 guaranteed prize pool and unlimited re-entries for the first 8 levels of play. Currently, nine players are ed, and all entrants will receive a 20,000 chip starting stack, good for 100 big blinds.
The second and final satellite running today for the Hendon Mob Championship is currently in play, with registration still open and unlimited until the end of Level 10. Forty-five players are currently battling it out for a €150 ticket.
The Hendon Mob Championship has been revealed! This year’s winner will be taking home this impressive piece of glassware to add to, or start, their trophy collection!
One of the marquee events of the entire Festival kicks us off with a bang. The ever-popular Hendon Mob Championship is hosting its first Day 1A here in Rozvadov with the cards first hitting the felt at 1 p.m. local time.
This year has the potential to see the world’s largest Hendon Mob Championship, with a staggering €300,000 prize pool on offer from just a €150 buy-in.
Day 1A is scheduled to play down to 12.5% of the field remaining, with a €300 min cash guaranteed for those who progress to Day 2 on Sunday night.
The top two chip leaders from each flight will receive a Festival Main Event ticket worth €550 each, a nice juicer for anyone looking to get involved.
Currently in the field is a previous €2,000 Cape Town Package winner, Hermann Schweiger (pictured above on the right). The very same package is also up for grabs for the winner of this installment.
At the time of writing, 86 players are in the field of 92 entrants, but expect that number to grow as more entries filter in through the satellite and direct buy-ins throughout the 10-level long late registration period.
The stage is set and the cards are in the air for The Festival from here in Rozvadov, Czechia. Held at King’s Resort in the border town, The Festival promises to be a fun-filled and action-packed event over the following 11-day stretch.
At 11 a.m. this morning local time, players took their seats for the day’s first event and The Festival in general, the €30 satellite to The Hendon Mob Championship.
The €3,000 guarantee was hit, with 120 players taking a chance at qualifying for the €300,000 guaranteed event. At the time of writing, 32 remain in the field, with the top 20 receiving a ticket to the €150 buy-in event. Twenty-first will receive €24, a small rebate from the €30 buy-in.
Satellites to The Hendon Mob Championship will continue to run daily until Sunday. For those who missed out this morning, a satellite to Day 1B commences at 3 p.m. local time, with 1B commencing three hours later at 6 p.m.
After a successful run last year in Rozvadov, The Festival returns once again to the Czech town for its first event of the year. Hosted at the palace of poker that is King’s Resort, the event will run from the 6-16th of June and attract players of all creeds and colours from all four corners of the world throughout the scheduled 11-day stint here.
Action will be plentiful, and the place will be packed to the rafters with players all seeking their chance at a title. The Festival will be offering over €1,000,000 in total prize pool across all the tournaments on the schedule, indicating substantial value for all who want to take their chances at a shot at poker glory.
This year will see 72 unique tournaments, 12 more than last year’s installment, and is equally as diverse in of game selection, as you will see from the get-go when the Festival officially kicks off at 11am on the 6th June with a €30 satellite into The Hendon Mob Championship. That being said, let’s dive into the schedule over the opening weekend in a little more depth.
Kicking Off The Festival
The Hendon Mob Championship (THMC) starts the festival with a flourish. The six-flight €300,000 guaranteed event will run from June 6-8th and will be the largest installment of the THMC to date across any venue. Two flights have already run at the King’s Casino in Prague, situated inside the luxurious Hilton Hotel in the nation’s capital. This is the fourth location that the THMC has hosted with The Festival, having run at Dusk Til Dawn (DTD) Nottingham, Portomaso Casino Malta, Banco Casino Bratislava, and King’s Resort Rozvadov.
The tournament will feature 30-minute levels in all flights other than the turbo flight, which will have 15-minute levels. These final flights run on Sunday, which offers a last chance for players looking for a share of the gigantic prize pool. All players will start with a stack of 50,000.
In the last installment in Rozvadov, Iranian win the title. The duo chopped the money and took home €35,250 each, and a seat at the WSOPE Main event worth €10,350. Alimoradpour also secured a €2,000 package to The Hendon Mob Championship in Cape Town along with the win. Remarkably, this was Alimoradpour’s first recorded cash. Perhaps a similar story could emerge this year?
The Final Table Result
Position
Player
Country
Prize
1
Majid Alimoradpour
Iran
€ 35,250* + €2,000 Cape Town THMC Package
2
Marek Soukup
Czech Republic
€ 35,250*
3
Tomas Svec
Czech Republic
€ 23,850**
4
Matthias Steinberg
€ 10,400
5
Robert Palasz
Poland
€ 8,200
6
Martin Wolf
€ 6,400
7
Visa Kiviharju
Finland
€ 4,700
8
Rainer Sollfrank
€ 3,200
9
Ivica Malovan
Croatia
€ 2,530
*Denotes deal and includes a €10,350 WSOPE seat ** Includes a €10,350 WSOPE seat
Schedule for The Hendon Mob Championship.
Day 1a: 1pm Friday 6th June.
Day 1b: 6pm Friday 6th June.
Day 1c: 11am Saturday 7th June.
Day 1d: 6pm Saturday 7th June.
Day 1e Turbo: 11am Sunday 8th June.
Day 1 Flip and Go Pineapple: 2pm Sunday 8th June.
Day 2 Final Day: 5pm Sunday 8th June.
Mystery Bounty at Rozvadov
Flights to the Mystery Bounty.
Day 1A of the €250 Mystery Bounty kicks off on Sunday, the 8th of June. Of the €250 buy-in, €100 will be placed into the bounty prize pool. There is a slight discount on the buy-in from last year, and the prize pool remains the same at €100,000 guaranteed. There will be four flights to Day 2 with registration being open for the first 10 levels of play, which will run for 30-minutes apiece. Players will receive a 50,000 starting stack from their buy-in. The final flight however, is a turbo with a 15-minute level blind structure, and Day 2 will commence the same day, similar to the final flight of the THMC.
Mystery Bounty Schedule.
Day 1a: 6pm Sunday 8th June.
Day 1b: 6pm Monday 9th June.
Day 1c: 6pm Tuesday 10th June.
Day 1d: 11am Wednesday 11th June.
Day 2: 6pm Wednesday 11th June.
PLO Events.
The Festival will also see two PLO events run over the first weekend: the €150 PLO Championship starts at 4pm on Friday June 6th. The prize pool is set at a €10,000 guarantee and players will have access to unlimited registration throughout the first 8 levels of play, which are set at 20-minutes each. Players will receive a 20,000 chip starting stack.
The second PLO tournament, the €250 PLO Masters, will have a €20,000 prize pool on offer and also features unlimited registration throughout the first 8 levels and levels will also run at 20-minutes each, so a very similar structure to the Championship the day before. The tournament starts at 4pm with a 20,000 starting stack.
For those who want to dabble in a bit of two-card and four-card action in the same tournament, the €125 Half ‘n’ Half (Texas & PLO) is the one for you to kick off The Festival. Running on Sunday 8th from 9pm, the tournament will have a €5,000 guaranteed prize pool and unlimited reentries up until Level 10 and feature 20-minute levels.
Satellites to The Main Event.
If you’re playing a smaller roll and looking to spin up, or just looking to bag some extra bang for your buck, there are Super Satellites to the Main Event starting from the get-go. For the €80 buy-in, players can win a seat to the €550 Main Event, which will feature a staggering €500,000 guaranteed prize pool. The satellites will offer a minimum of 10 seats each and start at 7pm daily up until Wednesday, 11th of June. The last satellite runs on Wednesday at 3pm, with the Main Event Day 1 kicking off at 6pm the very same day.
Day 1A of the HORSES Mixed Game Main Event.
And last, but certainly not least, in what is sure to be an immensely popular event, the Mixed Game Main Event HORSES will kick off on Monday 4pm. The €550 buy-in will see a €25,000 guaranteed prize pool, and players will be allowed to re-enter once per flight. Players will receive a 40,000 starting stack, and levels will run for 30-minutes.
Off the Felt Activities.
The Festival isn’t just about the cards. There will be an eclectic range of activities for online qualifiers, with the hospitality deal included in their package. The activities are on from flag fall, the first of which is a Boule school hosted by The Festival’s main man, Franke! This activity runs from 2pm to 4pm and offers an introduction to the classic French lawn game.
The following day, qualifiers will get to learn about Molky, a Finnish game that combines bowling and strategy. Franke hosts again and will guide you through the game, which involves throwing a stick at numbered pins. Players must score exactly 50 points, no more, no less, or they are penalised. This activity also runs from 2pm to 4pm.
On Sunday, another Scandinavian game takes centre stage in the form of Kubb. Also known as “Viking Chess”, the game involves throwing wooden sticks at opposing teams’ blocks. Franke takes to the helm on hosting duties again in what is sure to be a fun-filled afternoon in the fresh air, running from 2pm to 4pm. For additional information on the Hospitality Events throughout the week, click here.
Kings Casino hosts The Festival Series
Location, Location, Location!
For those who may be unfamiliar with Rozvadov, the Czech town is home to the largest poker room in Europe, the aforementioned King’s Resort. It is located close to the Czech-German border. It is approximately a 45-minute drive from Plzen and around an hour and a half drive from the Czech capital of Prague. From , Kings can be reached in around an hour and a half from Nuremberg, two hours from Munich, and three hours from Stuttgart. Kings offer a transport service which can be ed on +420 777 281 804. For general enquiries, +420 605 000 888 or visit the website https://www.kings-resort.com/
That’s all for now folks, until The Festival kicks off in a few days time. Stay tuned to the live blog for continued updates of the tournament action and the hospitality events taking place off the felt.
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