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BorgataPoker.com High Heads Up Tournament Leaderboard Standings (Sep 7 – 20)

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Heads Up Tournament Leaderboard

Earn Heads Up Tournament Leaderboard Points for participating in qualifying heads up tournaments on BorgataPoker.com.

High Heads Up Leaderboard:  Qualify September 7 – 20, 2015

  • Play in any $20, $50, $100, $200 or $500 buy-in qualifying Heads Up tournament on BorgataPoker.com and earn valuable Heads Up Tournament Leaderboard points
  • Every Heads Up online tournament entry earns Participation Points
  • Every Heads Up online tournament win earns Winner Bonus Points
  • Top fifteen (15) players during qualification period will win share of $2,000 in prizes

The BorgataPoker.com Heads Up Tournament Leaderboard standings will be updated throughout the month.

PlacePlayerPointsPrize
1GM-MitchMurphy12838.535$500 Tournament Dollars
2Wigler1311692.928$350 Tournament Dollars
3DONKBOY11668.402$250 Tournament Dollars
4joeyh19353466.665$150 Tournament Dollars
5GayGymnast3216.209$100 Tournament Dollars
6All_In_Me2867.772$100 Tournament Dollars
7HotNikkels2534.652$75 Tournament Dollars
8bobsterman19712274.106$75 Tournament Dollars
9spiderman8882055.261$75 Tournament Dollars
10xxx6395200xxx1961.519$75 Tournament Dollars
11Mikehack1898.905$75 Tournament Dollars
12TheSangwich1884.140$75 Tournament Dollars
13Scoop20201827.389$75 Tournament Dollars
14whit45551656.408$75 Tournament Dollars
15mags691511.547$75 Tournament Dollars

updated through September 19, 2015 completed events

BorgataPoker.com Low Heads Up Tournament Leaderboard Standings (Sep 7 – 20)

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Heads Up Tournament Leaderboard

Earn Heads Up Tournament Leaderboard Points for participating in qualifying heads up tournaments on BorgataPoker.com.

Low Heads Up Leaderboard:  Qualify September 7 – 20, 2015

  • Play in any $1, $2, $5 or $10 buy-in qualifying Heads Up tournament on BorgataPoker.com and earn valuable Heads Up Tournament Leaderboard points
  • Every Heads Up online tournament entry earns Participation Points
  • Every Heads Up online tournament win earns Winner Bonus Points
  • Top fifteen (15) players during qualification period will win share of $500 in prizes

The BorgataPoker.com Heads Up Tournament Leaderboard standings will be updated throughout the month.

PlacePlayerPointsPrize
1Fishkabob3596.054$150 Tournament Dollars
2Scoop20203544.129$100 Tournament Dollars
3TpocketT3386.156$75 Tournament Dollars
4SuperDonk1877.691$50 Tournament Dollars
5Frankie66361538.685$25 Tournament Dollars
6CardVix211350.132$10 Tournament Dollars
7Hayder5651310.296$10 Tournament Dollars
8andrewtrof1210.415$10 Tournament Dollars
9Bigfish991116.360$10 Tournament Dollars
10deadmoneyking991084.264$10 Tournament Dollars
11Dstunner271067.059$10 Tournament Dollars
12rjp221057.827$10 Tournament Dollars
13Jarek1980993.296$10 Tournament Dollars
14EddieC909.638$10 Tournament Dollars
15Amanda85851.581$10 Tournament Dollars

updated through September 19, 2015 completed events

Counting Crows at Borgata Festival Park September 5

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Counting CrowsIf you’ve never been to a Counting Crows concert, you might innocently ask something like “What can I expect when the Counting Crows play at Borgata’s Festival Park Labor Day weekend?

Ha, you really have never been to a Counting Crows show. What to expect? Who knows?

Oh, sure, there will be Counting Crows music sung by Adam Duritz, but that’s about all you can say for sure.

A set list? They don’t use one.

Exact performances of their songs to match their recorded versions so you can sing along? Nope, they change them—and usually the lyrics—every show.

You’ll hear the band’s signature hits like “Mr. Jones,” “Round Here” and “Accidentally in Love”.  Well, yeah on that one, but after that, there’s about 80 other Counting Crow songs they choose from.

The bottom line is that the Counting Crows have always been known for their live performances and their improvising on stage. It makes every Counting Crows show unique.

Take the set list. Duritz will work it out right before they take the stage September 5 at Festival Park by sending some text messages.

“It goes to the band, the crew and the opening band, if we’re good friends,” he tells USA Today in a recent interview.

At Festival Park, the opening band is Citizen Cope.

Of course, Duritz’s lyrical adventures does sometimes lead him far astray from the original lyrics, but then there is always a way back.

“I have a book of lyrics that sits behind me, under the piano,” he says. “It’s there to refer to in an emergency, or if I want to look at something before a song, but I can’t be referring to it during a gig.”

So even with the lyrics on stage, a Counting Crows show is a one of a kind experience, and it’s been that way since the band first broke out with the album August and Everything After in 1993. Touring and live performance always took a major role in the group’s history, the band has produced three live albums and encourages bootleg recordings of its shows. They are currently touring in support of their seventh studio album, 2014’s Somewhere in Wonderland.

“One of my guitar techs told me last year we have in excess of 80 songs in the rotation right now,” Duritz says. “The one real evidence of 20 years having passed is that we have all those songs to play every night. There’s a satisfying feeling in having created such a wealth of material.”

And with a unique show, Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa is offering some unique ways to experience Counting Crows at Festival Park September 5 including:

VIP Packages

Meet and Greet with Sound Check Package – $224.50

The package for the ultimate fan includes the following: one premium or general admission ticket to the show, a photo at the meet and greet with the Counting Crows, attend sound check, collectible autographed poster, $30 gift certificate to the Official Online Store, Somewhere Under Wonderland CD and an official VIP laminate.

Merchandise and Tickets Package – $129.50

The package for a night you want to remember includes the following: Premium or General Admission ticket to the show, $30 gift certificate to the Official Online Store, Somewhere Under Wonderland CD and collectible autographed poster.

BEVERAGE CABANAS

Private beverage cabanas are available with bottle service. For information and reservations, call 609.317.7249.

Doors open at 3pm with music by Sidearm, exclusively for ticket holders. Sidearm is a power trio with a diverse play list that includes everything from rock/pop/classic, rock/new wave/dance/r&b/funk/blues – they cover it all flawlessly.

Tickets for Counting Crows with Citizen Cope September 5 at 7pm at Borgata’s Festival Park are $49.50 and available here.

Say Goodbye to Summer and Hello to a Piece of $5,000 this Weekend

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$5,000 End of Summer SweepstakesIt’s the end of August – and almost the end of summer. We know, we know. It’s tough to leave beach season in the rear view mirror. But we’re making it easier to say goodbye to the hottest days of the year by putting a cool $5,000 in cash and prizes on the line.

Our End of Summer Sweepstakes packs a top prize of $1,000 cash and up to $500 in Bonus Dollars into one last weekend hurrah. From Friday, August 28th through Sunday, August 30th, we’re giving away entries to our sweepstakes and it’s easy to be a part of it.

If you want to earn entries, log in to your BorgataCasino.com account on August 28th, 29th or 30th and make a deposit using bonus code SUNSET15. When you do, you’ll get your first entry. To earn more entries, just play slots, classic slots, or progressive slots. Every time you rack up 20 iRewards Points, you’ll get one more entry, up to a maximum of 10 entries per day.

A total of 100 BorgataCasino.com winners will be randomly selected in the $5,000 End of Summer Sweepstakes. Enter and play this weekend and you could be one of them.

Borgata Online Winners for August 10 – 16

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Yahtzee Slot MachineThere are a lot of great things we get to yell when we win or score in a game. You know, stuff like “Bingo,” “Gooooaaaal,” “We’re No. 1” etc. But one of the coolest has to be when you get to yell “Yahtzee.”

Anyone who has ever played the classic dice game knows the feeling when all the dice line up just right. Well guess what? You can get your chance to yell Yahtzee playing online at BorgataCasino.com, as Anthony from Somers Point found out playing our newest slots game “Yahtzee.” His $2 bet won him $3,500, which is a little more than we ever won playing Yahtzee in the living room.

Hey we like to keep you yelling—and winning—here at BorgaataCasino.com and BorgataPoker.com.

Of course as much as we love yelling Yahtzee, the real story this week may be the $100,000 jackpot won by Donna from Franklin Lakes on our Double Diamond Slot game. We don’t know what she yelled when she hit the $100K, but she’s probably still yelling.

Here’s a look at the big online winners for August 10 – August 16:

BorgataCasino.com:

– On August 13, Donna from Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, won a $100,000 jackpot while playing the Double Diamond slot game.

– On August 13, Kevin from Colonia, New Jersey, made a $9 wager on the Super Lucky Spin slots game and hit a $5,005 jackpot, all from the comfort of his mobile device.

– On August 15, Anthony from Somers Point, New Jersey, made a $2 bet on our newest slot game, Yahtzee, and won $3,500.50.

BorgataPoker.com:

– Jermz ($8,342) and JohnnyDrama ($8,242) were the big winners in the August 16 Sunday $50K Guaranteed tournament, with Mercedes1951 cashing for $2,850 and Turkeyleg taking in $2,350.

– shadyro ($2,849), Mendey ($2,461), dragon ($2,271) and yazi4 ($1,965) each took first place in the Daily $10,000 Guaranteed tournaments this week.

– Winners of the daily $4,000 Guaranteed Turbo events this week include:  GiantGenius ($2,035), NowThatsAKnife ($1,835), suicidequ33n ($1,777), Jermz ($1,720) and talk5050 ($1,663).

– AAKKiah ($1,125), PocketProfits ($1,095) and TightTightTight ($1,095) each took first place in this week’s Daily $5,000 Guaranteed tournaments.

– BorgataPoker.com tournament players earn Monthly Online Tournament Leaderboard points and a chance to win a share of $7,800 in monthly prizes.  The top 500 place finishers from each month (June, July and August) will be invited to participate in the September 6th (3PM) Quarterly Freeroll Invitational Tournament awarding over $20,000 in prizes.

Turn $5 into a $3,500 WPT Borgata Poker Open Championship seat at BorgataPoker.com

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Borgata Poker Open QualifiersThis is it. This is the land-based tournament series you’ve been waiting for. Millions of dollars are on the table in the upcoming Borgata Poker Open, set to get underway this September in Atlantic City. The journey to securing your seats in several events begins online at BorgataPoker.com.

The Borgata Poker Open 2015 is a 22-event live series that begins with a $2 million guaranteed Texas Hold’em tourney. Hallmark events include the Almighty Million and the much-anticipated televised WPT Borgata Poker Open Championship where $3 million is guaranteed.

It all kicks off at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa this September and we’ve got loads of online poker satellites on our schedule to help you secure seats for a fraction of the buy-ins.

Satellites to several events are available only at BorgataPoker.com beginning Saturday, August 29th for just $45. Starting Monday, August 24th, you can also win your way through qualifiers for a small $5 buy-in.

For the televised WPT Borgata Poker Open Championship event, you’ll find qualifiers for $45 that lead to Super Satellites, where ~ 1 in 10 players wins a $3,500 seat in the land-based Championship tourney.

There are tons of events worth playing in, so check it all out on our Borgata Poker Open promotion page.

We can’t wait to see you online – and in Atlantic City.

Roll your Way to Big Wins with the New Yahtzee Online Slots Game

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Yahtzee Slot MachineReady to roll the dice and win big? Then you’re going to want to try Yahtzee, our brand new slots game from WMS Interactive, now live at BorgataCasino.com.

If you’re familiar with the classic family cup and dice game, then you’re going to love Yahtzee. If you’ve never played the board game before but you’re all about other casino dice games, Yahtzee is destined to become your new favorite.

The 25-payline slots game with 5 reels comes packed with rewarding bonus rounds, like the Party Bonus and the Back-to-Back Yahtzee Jackpot, so there’s always something fun waiting for you with each toss of the dice.

Yahtzee joins our suite of slots games based on classic game night favorites, including Super Monopoly Money and Battleship. All it takes to play is a free account. Don’t have one? Create yours now and get $20, just for signing up.

Jeff Foxworthy at Borgata’s Event Center August 23

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Looking at the line-up of veteran stand-up comedians that perform here on the big Event Center stage at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, it’s pretty easy to see what the typical stand-up is shooting for.

And that’s a multi-faceted, multi-media career. Seems veteran stand-ups always have books to sell, TV shows to promote and manage to play great rooms like the Event Center.

Of course, it’s not just handed to them. First they have to make a connection with America.

And few comics have ever made the connection as well as Jeff Foxworthy, who plays Borgata’s Event Center August 23.

Just hearing the name, you’re mind goes to “You might be a redneck if…” Or maybe it was “Are you smarter than a fifth grader?” Or you’re thinking of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. Or maybe it’s the “American Bible Challenge.”

Whichever one comes to mind, chances are you’ve spent a few very funny, down-home minutes with Foxworthy on your TV somewhere. Foxworthy even presents himself as a three-pronged attack—comedian, outdoorsman and just a plain old down-home “guy.”

He’s the largest-selling comedy-recording artist, a multiple Grammy Award nominee, and bestselling author of more than twenty-six books. He’s even launched a line of merchandise based around his “You might be a redneck” routines.

But for all his success as a TV host and unofficial spokesman for the south, Foxworthy has always made his stand-up—including the year’s with Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall and Ron White on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour—his main career focus.

Jeff Foxworthy“Stand-up is a strange job, because you think about it, there’s a lot of musicians, and there’s a lot of actors, but there’s very few people that make stand-up their life’s work,” Foxworthy recently told Creative Loafing.com. “There’s people that’ll get popular for a few years and then they’ll just go away, but there’s not a whole lot of people that, 30 years later, that’s what they’re doing.”

Foxworthy says that even after his long career, he still finds stand-up audiences the best test of what’s funny.

“So you do get that instant feedback, and I just accepted a long time ago, the audience is always right. If they say that’s funny, then that’s funny,” he says. “If they say it’s not, no matter what I think, then it’s not.

“For me, I guess I’m a little bit of a weird writer in that, I don’t necessarily sit down and think, ‘All right, what’s funny? What’s funny? What’s funny?” he says. “Hey, if I think of something, or my wife says something, or my family does it, then surely we’re not the only ones, because I do think everybody has the thoughts that comedians have, but I think they think it and it just kind of goes on down the river, and you don’t really examine it. So for me, when you’re doing a show, and somebody goes, ‘Oh my God, I’ve done that,’ or, ‘Oh my God, I’ve thought that,’ you’re like, ‘Yeah. I just grabbed it, polished it up and showed it to you.”

Lately, Foxworthy has been busy with a revival of “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader,” which he calls “his baby” and even made headlines for challenging “Jeopardy” host Alex Trebeck to come on the show.

And he always has a “You might be a redneck” joke at the ready. (You might be a redneck if… you list “beginner’s luck” as a skill on a job application.)

It’s all part of the connection Foxworthy has made with America.

Tickets for Jeff Foxworthy August 23 at 8pm in Borgata’s Event Center are $49.50, $55 and $65 and available here.

Borgata Online Winners for August 3 – 9

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There may be a small lesson in this week’s big online winners at BorgataCasino.com and BorgataPoker.com.

Namely, if you’re playing the Montezuma slots games at BorgataCasino.com, you should bet $6.

Hey it worked for Tracy from Middlesex and Jessica from Atlantic City who both made $6 bets on the Montezuma slots and hit jackpots totaling more than $14,000 collectively. Hey, a trend is a trend.

And let’s hear it for Jessica, who showed just how convenient Borgata online play really is. She’s our neighbor here in Atlantic City and still likes to play online.

As for BorgataPoker.com, our schedule of daily tournaments continues to pay off big for grinders.

So the biggest trend of the week—and every week—is winning.

Here’s a look at the big online winners for the week of August 3 – August 9:

BorgataCasino.com

– On August 4, Tracy from Middlesex, New Jersey, made a $6 bet playing the Montezuma slots game and won $8,983.

black-knight– On August 5, Raquel from West New York, New Jersey, made a $14.44 wager on the Black Knight slots game and hit a $5,345.08 jackpot.

– On August 8, Jessica from Atlantic City, New Jersey, made a $6 bet on the Montezuma slots game and won $5,662.

BorgataPoker.com

– Gustavo took the first place prize of $10,000 in the Sunday $50K Guaranteed tournament on August 9, with ratboy33 taking second for $6,585 and pinkyup taking third for $4,750.

– AcPoker0271 ($2,752), BOBBY_DIGITAL ($2,250), hort336 ($2,190) and bahama111 ($2,190) each took first place in the Daily $10,000 Guaranteed tournaments this week.

– Winners of the Daily $4,000K Guaranteed Turbo events this week include: The_Malm ($2,497), bahama111 ($2,000), joeyrup ($2,000) and MistaMenza ($1,892).

– Pot4Jack0ff ($1,125), skonny ($1,095), Billybackpack ($1,046) and NowThatsAKnife ($1,022) each took first place in this week’s Daily $5,000 Guaranteed tournaments.

– BorgataPoker.com tournament players earn Monthly Online Tournament Leaderboard points and a chance to win a share of $7,800 in monthly prizes.  The top 500 place finishers from each month (June, July and August) will be invited to participate in the September 6th (3PM) Quarterly Freeroll Invitational Tournament awarding over $20,000 in prizes.

Special Wedding Offer for The Water Club

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You probably already know about many of the things that make Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa a special place to come together with friends.

There’s the exciting nightlife and clubs, the casino action, the relaxing and rejuvenating spa experiences and the great shows and dining. In short, Borgata is a great place to party.

But you may not realize that Borgata is also a great place for one of the most elegant and important events of your life. Namely, your wedding.

Borgata Casino Hotel & Spa along with The Water Club Hotel offers a uniquely Atlantic City ambiance for your special day—sophisticated, modern and with style that knows no equal.

Weddings at Borgata are custom-crafted by a dedicated team, with our wedding specialist providing personal attention to even the minutest detail.

Borgata and The Water Club provide spaces for ceremonies, cocktail hours and receptions, including the lavish Water Club Indoor Pool. A complimentary pre-ceremony room is also available to you on your wedding day.

Weddings at The Water Club feature signature wedding menus crafted by The Water Club’s culinary consultant, Iron Chef Geoffrey Zakarian, and custom-designed wedding cakes by Borgata’s Executive Pastry Chef, Thaddeus DuBois.

And with the long-awaited passage of marriage equality in New Jersey, Borgata and The Water Club are excited to plan and host weddings for our LGBT guests.

And after the wedding, remember all of Borgata’s amenities await your guests.

2016 Wedding OfferWe bring this up because we’re offering a special offer for weddings planned in 2016 at The Water Club. Book your wedding at The Water Club in the next 16 days (by September 1) and experience these discounts.

$20.16 room rental

$16 off 16 dinners

16 complimentary parking passes

To learn more about this special promotion, contact Borgata Sales Office at 609.317.7729.

The Water Club offers the best wedding experience Atlantic City has to offer. And doesn’t your wedding deserve the best?

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