Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham is gearing up to host the first The Festival Series of 2023, and it promises to be another hugely successful stop. Thirty-five events are scheduled across the series, which runs from February 12-19, including a £450 buy-in Main Event boasting a £200,000 guaranteed prize pool.

The Festival Series combines poker and casino games in one bustling package. How the organisers manage to cram in so much variety is a mystery because The Festival Series Nottingham has everything you can think of under one roof.

Everything kicks off with the £120 buy-in £25,000 guaranteed Poker Listings Championship on February 12. By the time the curtain comes down on proceedings and Dusk Till Dawn bolts shut its door on February 19, 35 champions will be crowned. Those champions will have taken down tournaments such as Sviten Special, No-Limit Hold’em Heads-Up, 8-Game, PLO High Roller, Round of Each NLHE/PLO, and Open Face Chinese. There are even blackjack and roulette events if casino table games are your forte.

It isn’t only tournaments taking place at The Festival Series Nottingham, but also the famous Cash Game Challenge. The Cash Game Challenges each last two hours and the aim is to win the most big blinds throughout the entire series. Be the biggest winner in terms of big blinds, and a €1,600 package for the upcoming The Festival Series Malta is all yours! No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha games are running with blinds from £1/£2 to £10/£10.

The Main Event features a quartet of flights, each costing £450. You sit down with 200,000 chips and play to a 30-minute clock. Late registration remains open for eight levels, and you can re-enter once per Day 1 before the registration desk closes. Each Day 1 plays until only 15% of the field remains, with those top 15% finishers progressing to Day 2 having secured a min-cash for their efforts. Day 1A starts on February 15 and the champion is crowned on February 19.

The Festival Series Nottingham Schedule

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There are several satellites taking place live at Dusk Till Dawn in addition to several of The Festival Series’ online poker partners. PartyPoker is one place you can win either a £450 ticket to the Main Event, or a £1,500 package.

February 2 and February 9 see £33 buy-in seat-only satellites take place at 7:00 p.m. GMT. Feeder satellites from £1.10 are available for the seat-only satellite.

On February 5 and February 12, also at 7:00 p.m. GMT, you have the chance to win a £1,500 The Festival Nottingham package for £109. Capture the package you will receive:

• £450 seat to The Festival Series Nottingham Main Event
• Six nights accommodation from February 13-19
• £270 for travel expenses

If the £109 buy-in is out of your bankroll’s constraints, feeders from £0.44 are in the PartyPoker tournament lobby.

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Day 3 of the PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold’em Championship has come to an end and Petar Kalev leads 52 players into Thursday’s Day 4. The surviving runners will return on Thursday at 12 p.m. local time for the penultimate day of this prestigious event.

The Bulgarian bagged the top stack of 3,360,000 and he is followed by Blake Bohn in second on the leaderboard with 2,800,000. Dylan Destefano ended the night in third with 2,665,000, while Platinum Pass winners Dominik Nitsche and Tom Parsons rounded out the top five with 2,360,000 and 2,265,000, respectfully.

Kalev has the chip lead after a late clash with a charging Fedor Holz, who looked as though he may emerge as the chip leader in the late levels. However, an ill-timed shove proved beneficial when he made an unlikely flush to cut Holz’s stack in half. After a late charge to end the night, Kalev stood tall with the biggest bag.

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Day 3 Action

The third of five days saw 255 players return for a shot at making it through a money bubble that paid the top 175 players a min-cash of $35,100. It took a little over three hours to reach the bubble, and then over two hours in hand-for-hand play, but it was Mauricio Ferreira Pais that busted out to earn the rest of the room their payday.

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Among the big stories was Glen Craigen, a Canadian road construction worker that won his Platinum Pass in a freeroll. Craigen ran all the way to 111th to take home $46,500 and the story of a lifetime.

Another player on the ride of his life was Tom Parsons, who waited patiently for his opportunity after winning a Platinum Pass at Lex Live 2 in March of 2019. Parsons was down to his last few big blinds on the bubble, but he spun it up and and went on a late run to finish with 2,265,000. According to Hendon Mob, Parsons had just $1,406 in lifetime earnings before this event.

Parsons is joined by Jerome Moreau on a list of dreamers that earned their way to The Bahamas by securing a Platinum Pass. Moreau is a dealer on the European Poker Tour, and he’s put his opportunity to good use. His big moment of the day was when he correctly called a bluff from Nicolas Betbese to take a big pot with a pair of eights. He went on to add more chips at the end of the night with the elimination of Kenny Hallaert. Moreau will return with 1,205,000 and a chance to live his dream from a different seat at the table.

Remaining PSPC Platinum Pass Winners

Included in the many Platinum Pass winners to hit the payout window on Day 3 were Soraya Estrada, Miguel Posadas, Dan Taieb, Mason Pye, Dinesh Alt, Bastian Hess, Porfirio Navarro, and Alejandro Lococo. Lococo ran to 89th for $53,400, and he was knocked out by Bohn’s Big Slick—a hand that put Bohn above 1.5 million chips on his way to a bag of 2,800,000.

Bohn, a Minnesota-native, is a regular at the WSOP and on mid-major tours throughout the United States. According to Hendon Mob, he has just over $3.5 million in lifetime earnings, including a recent win at Winter Poker Classic on the Mid-States Poker Tour. Bohn’s best live cash is just under $290,000, and he can beat that with an 11th place finish.

Sam Grafton also survived to see Day 4, thanks in part to a double knockout of Sammy Lafleur and Niklas Warlich. This is Grafton’s second cash of the series after a run to 52nd in the PCA Main Event, and the PokerStars Ambassador will return with 1,590,000 for the opportunity to add to his near $13 million in lifetime earnings. Grafton will be joined on Day 4 by other notable players Nadya Magnus, Chris Moorman, Fedor Holz, Sean Winter, Daniel Dvoress, and Chance Kornuth.

Players will return on Thursday in Level 23 with blinds at 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante. Each of the 52 returning players is guaranteed at least $70,700, while the winner is slated to take home the top prize of $4,053,200.

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On Episode 2 of High Stakes Poker Season 10 Tuesday night, Nick Schulman, paired with AJ Benza, made his debut appearance in the broadcast booth, replacing Gabe Kaplan.

It’s never easy to replace a legend, but if anyone is up to the task it is Schulman, who has been one of PokerGO’s most popular commentators for years. Although he’s normally teamed up with Ali Nejad, another legendary broadcaster and long-time host of Poker After Dark, Schulman eased into the role quickly and the chemistry with Benza was on point.

Kaplan, the former actor and poker pro, announced his retirement last week. Schulman wrote on Twitter that he received Kaplan’s blessing to step into his seat.

Replacing a Poker Legend

High Stakes Poker, which first launched on Game Show Network in 2006, is one of the most iconic poker shows in history. Gabe and AJ, much like Norman Chad and Lon McEachern are with the World Series of Poker, go together like peanut butter and jelly. But Schulman instantly showed that Nick and AJ are a pretty dang good team as well.

Benza eased Schulman into the booth, introducing his new co-host right off the bat.

“I’m doing great, AJ,” Schulman said. “When I got the call from the Big Guy it was a little bit surreal, and can’t believe I’m sitting next to you on High Stakes, but I’m happy to be here.”

“Oh, listen, we’re all Brooklyn guys. Me, you, and Gabe – never bet against Brooklyn guys, we’re gonna be fine,” Benza responded.

Benza, Schulman, and Kaplan were all born in New York City.

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The Action at the Table

When the action began, Ema Zajmovic took down a small pot of $3,400 with a pair of fives in the $200/$400 no-limit hold’em cash game.

There were six other players at the table — Jennifer Tilly, Eric Persson, Matt Hanks, Jean-Robert Bellande, Bobby Baldwin, and Chino Rheem. Hanks had the largest stack with just over $350,000 and three players began the episode with a tad below $100,000.

Last week’s Season 10 premiere featured one of the more entertaining chop pots in High Stakes Poker history between Zajmovic and Hanks. This week’s highlights include a mistake by Persson in how he attempted to get a call from Bellande.

On a board of and $40,000 in the pot, Persson made an over-bet of $100,000 with for a full house. Bellande went into the tank with . Persson made every effort he could to talk his opponent into a call, and he went so far as to turn over the queen. Unfortunately, for the loudmouth casino owner and high-stakes regular, it ended up convincing “JRB” to fold his cards and he only won a small profit with a monster hand.

Bellande would get some breaks later on, however, including a six-figure pot he shipped with a flopped set against Tilly, who missed her flush draw. But then he folded pocket 10’s on a board when Hanks bet $70,000 into a pot of $83,000 with nothing but ace-high.

High Stakes Poker Season 10 returns next week on PokerGO at 5 p.m. PT with Episode 3.

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