Action Hots Up on the Third Day of The Festival in Rozvadov
The third day of The Festival in Rozvadov was another busy one, with both The Hendon Mob Championship and the H.O.R.S.E.S Mixed Main Event holding their last starting days. The Hendon Mob Championship also moved into Day 2, while the Mixed Main players will take their seats on Monday afternoon for its second and final day.
While these two key events that kicked off The Festival in Rovzadov have dominated the opening weekend of the festival, for the next few days the focus will switch to €300 Mystery Bounty, which had the first of its three starting days this evening.
Mixed Games remained central to the schedule on Sunday and it was the turn of 8-Game to be the format for the key non-Hold’em tournament of the day. There was also a Win The Button NLH side event and another two Cash Game Challenge sessions.
The Hendon Mob Championship
Day 1e Turbo was marginally the busiest of the starting days in the €250 buy-in event, with 187 entrants, of which 44 made it into Day 2. A few final one-table flips added a further six players to the second day, notably The Festival Series founder Martin ‘Franke’ von Zweigbergk, who won the very first flip, securing himself a seat in day two with a 400,000 chip stack.
With a total of 825 entries, this is the biggest ever edition of The Hendon Mob Championship, however it still managed to miss its €200,000 guarantee by just over €25,000.
The Hendon Mob’s Roland Boothby also made Day 2, however he was short stacked and attempted a failed blind on blind steal on the second hand of the day to hit the rail early. Franke faired somewhat better, at one point taking his stack to over 1m chips, however he busted in 23rd place after an audacious bluff went wrong.
They were amongst 121 players to progressed past day 1 but not all would cash, as the prize structure paid down to 89th place. Martin Georg Wolf bagged the largest stack of the remaining 16 players when play ended. There’s €30,900 up top awaiting the winner and play resumes at 1pm on Monday.
These are the chip counts and seating draw for the final Day
| Player | Country | Chip Count | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Georg Wolf | Germany | 6,455,000 | 37 | 5 |
| Rainer Johannes Sollfrank | Germany | 5,760,000 | 37 | 4 |
| Lucky777 | Ukraine | 4,565,000 | 37 | 8 |
| Matthias Steinberg | Germany | 4,120,000 | 38 | 7 |
| Robert Palasz | Poland | 2,765,000 | 38 | 3 |
| Marek Soukup | Czech Republic | 2,670,000 | 37 | 7 |
| Visa Viktor Valdemar Kiviharju | Finland | 2,620,000 | 37 | 3 |
| Nixon Hunter Dalton | United States | 2,395,000 | 37 | 2 |
| Tomas Svec | Czech Republic | 2,385,000 | 37 | 6 |
| Florian Nicolas Julien Bernard | France | 1,670,000 | 38 | 8 |
| Michael Francis Chiminolli | France | 1,590,000 | 38 | 2 |
| Xavier Jean Jacques Deschamps | France | 1,330,000 | 38 | 6 |
| Maurice Trapp | Germany | 1,095,000 | 37 | 1 |
| M.J | Iran | 800,000 | 38 | 5 |
| Ivica Malovan | Croatia | 790,000 | 38 | 4 |
| Jarmo Juhani Salonen | Finland | 615,000 | 38 | 1 |
Mixed Games Main Event
Another 21 players competed in the second starting day of the €550 H.O.R.S.E.S Mixed Main Event, with seven players securing their places in Monday’s Day 2. The chip leader from the day has bizarrely chosen to remain anonymous, posting a stack of 220,000. It’s bizarre because all of the previous $2.7m worth of cashes dating back to 2001 for the Ukrainian player are publicly available, including very recent scores. Only two players survived the day and will join the 13 who had already qualified for the final day.
Here are the chip counts and seating draw for the final day.
| Player | Country | Chip Count | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Siarhei Narozhny | Belorus | 220500 | 40 | 6 |
| Alexander Dovzhenko | Ukraine | 210500 | 42 | 4 |
| David Reiber | Germany | 171000 | 42 | 1 |
| Koen Roos | Netherlands | 151000 | 40 | 2 |
| Nicolas Bokowski | Germany | 140500 | 40 | 4 |
| Paddy Schmidt | Germany | 139500 | 40 | 3 |
| Scott James Maurice Kenyon | UK | 131500 | 42 | 3 |
| Craig Anthony Cooper | UK | 129500 | 40 | 1 |
| Barrie Michael Dear | Scotland | 105500 | 42 | 5 |
| Peter Emil Reck | Germany | 97500 | 41 | 4 |
| Sascha Manns | Germany | 97000 | 41 | 3 |
| Bruno Stefanelli | Italy | 88500 | 41 | 5 |
| Antoine Degiorgio | Malta | 70000 | 41 | 1 |
| Benjamin Maximil Bauermeister | Germany | 58500 | 41 | 6 |
| Andreas Dyll | Germany | 29000 | 42 | 2 |
Mystery Bounty Begins
The first starting flight of the €300 NLH Mystery Bounty started on Sunday with 13 players pushing through to the second day from a field of 83 runners. They will be joined by those who survive the next three flights and will continue their tournament on Wednesday afternoon.
€250 8-Game
The €250 8-Game attracted 69 players and paid seven places. There were many familiar faces in the field. It was won by Nikolas Bokowski, who defeated compatriot Sascha Manns to claim the €4,646 first prize.
Win The Button
The late-night side event on Sunday was a €125 Win The Button No Limit Hold’em. This is a fun variant in which the dealer button does not move round the table in clockwise fashion. So how does the button move? The answer is of course revealed in the name of the format, as whoever wins the each hand ‘wins’ the button for the next one. There were 156 entries for this event, with Croatian Ivo Gazde emerging victorious, winning the final button to take down the €4,103 first prize.
A special mention for tournament hopping Scott Kenyon, who finished second. He started the day late registering for Day 1e of The Hendon Mob Championship, made it into the second day with 10 big blinds and cashed. He then jumped into the 8-Game and after busting that progressed to Win The Button, where he picked up his second payout of the day!
Full results for both the 8-Game and Win The Button, as well as all other completed events are posted on Rozvadov results page.
Franke’s Flip Flops
Sunday was also the first day for Franke’s Flip Flops, a unique rake free offering, which has become a firm favourite at The Festival Series. The buy-in is €25 and its a winner takes all game, where the players mutually agree the format and then flip for fun. The winners receive tournament credit to use at the current series and by the end of the promotion on Friday, the player who wins the most flips takes down a €1,600 package to The Festival in Malta.
There were ten heats yesterday and so far Andre Sorm leads the with two victories.
Monday’s Schedule at The Festival in Rozvadov
The final days of The Hendon Mob Championship and the H.O.R.S.E.S Mixed Main Event restart at 1pm. The second flight of the Mystery Bounty begins at 6pm and there are three other side events, including a €250 PLO.
Further heats of the cash game challenge are also scheduled and Franke’s Flip Flops continues between 8-10pm.
