The Cash Game Festival hopes to follow up on successful trips to Estonia, England, and Malta with 120 hours of non-stop cash game action brought to you from the Platinum Casino, Bulgaria.

First, it was arm wrestling, then darts, followed by the pool league. Everything had a gambling angle to it. We would play cards, but it wasn’t often – Shoot The Pool and 3-Card Brag were the mainstays although we would sometimes play Pontoon.

Then one day a friend got into the World Poker Tour (WPT) on TV. It was the same time as his stag weekend in Las Vegas. He turned up at the pub one week with a deck of cards and some chips and taught us all how to play this game called poker.

When we arrived in Vegas, we hardly knew the rules. It helped. We opened 100% of hands. We were hyper-aggressive. We were the Scandinavians before the Scandinavians, except they knew what they were doing and we didn’t have a clue.