BetMGM announces Borgata Poker Open
The Atlantic City poker event will take place September 3-17.
US.- BetMGM’s Borgata Poker Open will take place September 3-17 at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City. The event features $4m in guaranteed total payouts.
The event will begin with the Kick-Off Deep Stack with a $800 buy-in and a $1m guarantee and conclude with the Borgata Poker Open Championship, with a $3,500 buy-in and $1.5m guarantee playing down to a live-streamed final table.
Until September 12, BetMGM Poker will have weekly seat-only qualifiers for a $2 buy-in, where players can earn a chance to participate in the competition. It will also offer chances to win packages at in-person events.
BetMGM director of poker Luke Staudenmaier said: “BetMGM Poker is proud to power another multimillion-dollar Borgata Poker Open with a wide variety of events for players to choose from. This is another opportunity to showcase the exciting blend of online poker with the East coast’s premier poker destination.”
The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement has reported that the state’s casinos and horse tracks that offer sports betting took $491m in gaming revenue in June. The casino win for the nine Atlantic City casino hotel properties was $244.1m, up 1 per cent compared to June 2023 ($241.6m). The online gaming win was $186.8m, up 25.2 per cent year-on-year from $149.3m. Sports wagering gross revenue was $60.1m, a 9.5 per cent decrease from $66.4m.
