Flamingo & Friends Festival #3 in Gevgelija, North Maceonia in Full Swing

Flamingo & Friends five-day tournament festival is taking place at Flamingo Casino in Gevgelija, North Macedonia, right on the border with Greece. All eyes are on the €230 Main Event where first two Day 1 flights were played. PokerPro.cc Team is once again at the floor, playing and reporting from this great event.

Day 1A on Thursday attracted 74 entries, while Day 1B yesterday saw 156 entries and prize pool has grown to €46,000 already. Today there’s another Day 1C turbo flight at 13:00 local time and all surviving players will be back at the tables at 17:00 for Day 2 of the Main Event. Late registration lasts for another two levels in the second day.

Ronny Albrigtsen

Chip leader from the first two days is Albert Zogiani from Kosovo with 350,500 chips. Right behind him is Macedonia’s Aleksandar Docevski with 334,500, who already won a tournament in Flamingo back in 2015 when our team was present as well. PokerPro.cc representative Ronny Albrigtsen from Norway is the only other player with more than 300k in chips with 322,500.

Cash Games in Gevgelija

But it’s not only tournament poker played in the casino, but also big cash games. Up to a seven cash games tables are opened at the same time and yesterday these games were running for many hours.

Omaha €5/€10/€20
Omaha €5/€5/€10
Texas €2/€5
Texas €1/€3/€6
Texas €1/€3
Texas €1/€3

Flamingo & Friends #3 Schedule

As said, turbo Day 1C and Day 2 is played today and the Final Day on Sunday. As the Main Event will be played down to its winner, a new Mystery Bounty side event will start with €120 buy-in.

This is the third installment of Flamingo & Friends with first two being earlier this year. Dimitris Dimitros took down the February event for €32,711 and Oliver Mihajlovski was crowned champion in May for €17,729.