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$100K Guaranteed this Sunday at BorgataPoker.com

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Sunday $100K Poker TournamentIt’s not just the Borgata Winter Poker Open in Atlantic City that’s seeing sky-high prize pools. This weekend at BorgataPoker.com, we’re supercharging the guarantee in our Sunday Major.

On Sunday, January 31st at 5pm, step into our $100K Guaranteed No Limit Hold’em Tournament for $200+15. That’s double the guarantee of our regular Sunday $50K GTD for the same $215 buy-in.

You can register for the tournament right now, or win your way into it through a low buy-in satellite.

Don’t forget, just like our regular Sunday Major, the $100K Guarantee comes with one re-entry option. So load your account just in case you bust out early. You’ll be able to jump back in with a fresh chip stack in a snap.

Vinny Pahuja Turns Online Satellite Wins at BorgataPoker.com into Live Event Victories

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The $3 Million Guaranteed WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship event gets underway this Sunday, January 31st at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City.  Seated among a large field of would-be champions, you’ll find New Jersey resident Vinny Pahuja proudly wearing a BorgataPoker.com patch.  If Vinny looks familiar to you, it’s not just because you might have dined next to him at Fornelletto, one of Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa’s exceptional restaurants.  Most likely, it’s because you’ve seen him stacking his way to victory in countless Borgata Poker Open events for the good part of a decade.

“I’ve been coming to Borgata for live events since 2008,” says Vinny from the tournament floor of Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. “I don’t think I’ve missed a major tournament in seven or eight years.  I’ve always loved the product.  I spend so much time here throughout the year that everyone from the floor staff to the dealers are like family.  Everyone is so welcoming that there’s a nice comfort level every time I play at Borgata.”

If describing an Atlantic City casino and the people behind the poker room as family sounds a bit bizarre, take a look at Vinny’s tournament success list and his sentiments start to make a whole lot of sense.

Most recently, Vinny, who has won nearly $2 million playing live poker, finished 60th in Borgata Winter Poker Open’s event #1, a $2 Million Guaranteed Deep Stack NLH tournament that saw 5,101 entries compete for a $2,550,500 prize pool.  But that’s just one notch on Vinny’s Borgata bedpost.

Vinny’s top tournament win came back in the 2008 Borgata Summer Poker Open when he finished 2nd for $289,000.   He also notched a first place victory in September 2014 in the Borgata Poker Open’s $1,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament for $58,491.  That win followed his April 2014 first place finishing the Borgata Spring Poker Open’s $1,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament for $43,648.

It’s that family feeling and a great poker product that brings Vinny back to Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa over and over again. But it’s not necessarily the only reason the New Jersey resident is back this year. Credit, this time, is due to BorgataPoker.com.
BorgataPoker.com is the largest state-regulated online poker room in the Garden State, offering players in New Jersey the chance to play tournaments and cash games on their Mac or PC, or on the go on smartphones and tablets. And it’s where you’ll frequently find Vinny when he’s not playing live.

“I’ve always respected the live product, so when it came to Borgata launching online, I made the move to New Jersey from New York.  If Borgata wasn’t one of the options open to me, I likely wouldn’t have made the move to New Jersey.”

It turned out to be a smart move. Vinny has seen lots of success, winning online tournaments and benefiting from things like The Grind, BorgataPoker.com’s monthly promotion that awards players with up to $4,500 in cash and tournament tickets, just for playing real money poker.

Perhaps his biggest success to date came on Sunday, January 17th and Monday, January 18th when Vinny steamrolled two small online satellite buy-ins into seats in this year’s Borgata Winter Poker Open land-based tournament series.

Vinny’s first win came on Sunday, when he turned a $400 buy-in at BorgataPoker.com into a seat in the $3,500 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship. The online Super Satellite awarded one seat for every 10 players in the tournament. Then, on January 18th, Vinny entered a $45 buy-in online satellite and won his seat into the Borgata Winter Poker Open event #1, the $560 buy-in tournament in which Vinny finished 60th for over $5,000.

BorgataPoker.com is famous for blurring the line between the online and live poker worlds. In addition to offering players the chance to satellite into Borgata Poker Open events (tournament series scheduled five times per year), the online poker room is home to a weekly Experience Borgata contest, which offers players the chance to win a one-night stay at Borgata in Atlantic City, plus dinner and tickets to a show.

While BorgataPoker.com complements the live world, it’s made a name for itself as a destination all its own, with big weekly guarantees (BorgataPoker.com guarantees over $250,000 each week), rewarding promotions, and the option to play from anywhere in New Jersey on a variety of devices.

Starting February 28th and running through March 13th, the online poker site hosts the fourth Garden State Super Series, with buy-ins ranging from $20 to $1,060 and qualifiers running as low as $2. You’ll find Vinny Pahuja playing in that series, too. After all, Borgata in Atlantic City and BorgataPoker.com are family.

Borgata Racebook $10,000 Handicapping Tournament January 30

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Borgata Racebook TournamentHorse Players know that when it comes to betting on the ponies, there’s no place quite like Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa’s Racebook.

Actually, in Atlantic City, there’s absolutely no place like our Racebook as we offer the resort’s only pari-mutuel betting. But we don’t rest on our laurels here at Borgata, and we always strive to give our horse players the best in tournament action.

Our next Racebook $10,000 Handicapping Tournament is scheduled for Saturday January 30. That’s a $10,000 guaranteed prize pool with the winner talking home at least $5K (not including your winnings on the races themselves, which you of course get to keep).

Entry into the tournament is a $100 bankroll and $75 entry fee. One hundred percent of the entry fees go to the prize pool.

The tournament is open to the first 200 players that sign up.

The rules are pretty simple. Borgata Racebook will pick nine races from around the country. Tournament players must wager one $10 win bet for eight races and one $20 win bet for one race.

Couldn’t be simpler huh? (betting the races that is, picking winners is another matter).

The player’s with the best picks split the prize pool as so:

Prize Distribution:

1st          50%

2nd         25%

3rd         10%

4th          5%

5th          3%

6th          2%

7th-11th   1%

Click here for full rules and regulations

Also, if you play in three or more of our five handicapping tournaments in 2016, you could win an entry into the 2017 Boyd Gaming Horse Player World Series in Las Vegas.

Plus, a special room rate available to tournament participants.

The tournament begins at noon in The Signature Room. Pre-registration is now open in Borgata’s Racebook. Registration is 9am – Noon in Borgata’s Racebook on Saturday, January 30.

What more is there to say? You love the ponies and we love our horse players. So let’s have some tournament fun.

Cash Back Monday puts 20% Back in your Pocket

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Cash Back MondayLast weekend may have been all about the snow, but this weekend it’s all about the green. When you play slots at BorgataCasino.com this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, we’ll give you 20% cash back on your losses, just in case luck isn’t on your side.

To get in on the cash back, sign into your BorgataCasino.com account between Friday, January 29th and Sunday, January 31st. Then, go to the Promotions tab and register for the Cash Back Monday promo.

As soon as you make a deposit of $100 or more, you’ll qualify for the 20% cash back. We’ll track your play on slots, classic slots, or progressive slots between Friday and Sunday. And then on Monday, we’ll give you 20% cash back on any net losses up to $100 you incurred.

Enjoy your weekend — and the extra cash back.

Experience Borgata Hotel Package

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Sales are great. No matter what it is—clothes, snack crackers, car mats—it’s just a wonderful feeling to know you’re getting a bargain price on an item.

And it’s even better when you can get a sale price on an experience. You know, a great price on a winter getaway where you can relax, enjoy a good show and sleep in a luxuriously appointed room.

Yep. You guessed it. Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa is having a sale on a hotel package.

Experience Borgata Hotel PackageFrom now through April 28 we’re offering our Experience Borgata Package—normally $274 a night—from $169 Sundays through Thursdays.

With the package you get an overnight stay in a beautifully designed Classic Guest Room, a $100 dining credit, two complimentary Comedy Club tickets (regularly $20) and $25 Bonus SLOT DOLLARS®.

With some quick math, that’s about $165 in freebies on a $169 package. Now that’s a sale.

The Borgata Comedy Club at Borgata’s Music Box has a full slate of shows lined-up, offering some of the brightest comedians on the circuit.

Borgata Dining is legendary and Bonus Slot Dollars are just cool any time at Borgata Slot Machines.

With a long hard winter underway, who deserves a mid-week getaway at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa more than you? After all, it’s on sale.

Click here for more information on the Experience Borgata Package and here on all our hotel packages. To book your package please call 609.317.1000.

Stacking Chips and Giving Some Back

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Matt StoutI’ve been playing poker full-time for a decade now and am truly blessed to make my living doing something I genuinely love to do. When I go more than a few days without playing I often start to crave the action even after all these years. It also gives me a level of freedom that just can’t be found with most jobs, something that I’m constantly reminded of as I watch my fiancée work long hours with little vacation time as a new attorney.

The only thing that was missing for me after I had settled into my career as a professional poker player was a sense that what I was doing was important and that it was serving a real purpose in society.  I’m not claiming that I was going to be a Nobel Prize winner had I not chosen poker, but I’d like to fancy myself as someone who’s smart enough that I was going to have some impact on the world.

And so the Charity Series of Poker (CSOP) was born.

When I was Vice President of my collegiate chapter of Habitat for Humanity, I talked a company into donating a television and a few other prizes for the $10 re-buy fundraiser poker tournament we established.  We raised almost $1,000 and had a great time doing it.  Fast forward several years to today, where we are doing the same thing on the poker tour with the help of some of the biggest names:  poker pros, celebrities, and the finest poker venues in the country.

On January 30th the Charity Series of Poker will return for our second annual event at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, where we’re honored to be a part of their Borgata Winter Poker Open series.  The CSOP tournament will begin at 5pm and is a no limit hold’em turbo with a buy-in of $330 ($200 to prize pool, $30 fee, and $100 donation).  The $100 donation for each entry goes directly to Habitat for Humanity of Atlantic County and the Community FoodBank of New Jersey.  The tournament allows unlimited re-entries for players that are eliminated.  In addition, CSOP will be handing out a $1,000 bonus to the player with the most re-entries and another $1,000 bonus for the chip leader when registration closes.

Besides the first place prize, the winner will also receive a $500 gift certificate from one of our sponsors, ProCaliber Poker Tables.

The CSOP tournament is open to the public.  Film critic Richard Roeper will be joining us as our featured celebrity guest!  Come support TWO great causes while having fun and winning CASH PRIZES in the process. If you’ve never been to one of our events you don’t know what you’re missing.

I’ve been told over and over by people who’ve played our events that they’ve never had so much fun playing poker in their lives!

Get to Borgata early!  There will be an open bar pre-party with appetizers at 28 West from 3:30-5pm for featured celebrities, pros, and anyone who buys into the tournament and shows their receipt.  Come join Richard Roeper, WSOP bracelet winners Jeff Madsen and Vanessa Selbst, 3-time WPT champion Anthony Zinno, One Drop champion Tony Gregg, November Niners Josh Beckley and Neil Blumenfield, reigning Borgata WPT champion Asher Conniff and many other notable pros for a night to remember!

Matt Stout

Borgata Online Winners for January 11 – 17

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It was another big week for poker play at Borgata’s online gaming sites, with a player at BorgataCasino.com even taking home a $4,000 jackpot on video poker.

The big winner at BorgataPoker.com was sign-on overthetop with two tournament wins and $14,000 in winnings. That’s thanks to the $50,000 prize pool guarantee on our Sunday tournament and a $4,000 prize pool guarantee in the Daily Turbo tournaments.

That’s what we like to do at BorgataPoker.com—guarantee winners.

Will you be next?

Here’s the list of big online gaming winners for the week of January 11 – 17:

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– On January 13, Jose from Willingboro, New Jersey, won $3,719.36 after placing a $2.40 bet on the Candy Store slot game.

Raging Rhino Game Screenshot– On January 15, Kiley from Mount Laurel, New Jersey, bet $8 playing the Raging Rhino slot game and won $4,493.

– On January 16, William from Red Bank, New Jersey, made a $5 bet on the Game King Double Double Bonus video poker game and won $4,000.

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– overthetop was this week’s biggest tournament winner, taking home over $14K, with first place finishes in the Sunday $50K Guaranteed tournament and the Daily $4,000 Guarantee Turbo.

– Rrggbb35 ($3,576), megolaman1ac ($3,472), GiantGenius ($3,416), legsdiamond ($3,347) and Iplay4cake ($3,078) placed first in the Daily $10K tournaments this week.

– LadyToin17 ($2,400), overthetop ($2,000) and Rick_Grimes ($1,610) each won the Daily $4,000 Guaranteed Turbo this week.

– phatchoy ($1,836), Proteus99 ($1,708), GaiusMarius ($1,539) and MyBoysCanSwim ($1,453) won the Daily $5K tournaments this week.

– BorgataPoker.com tournament players earn Monthly Online Tournament Leaderboard points and a chance to win a share of $7,800 in monthly prizes (Qualify January 1 – 31).  Top 500 place finishers from each monthly Tournament Leaderboard (December, January and February) will be invited to participate in the March 13th (3PM) Quarterly Freeroll Invitational Tournament awarding over $20,000 in prizes.

– Win a lot for a little! BorgataPoker.com continues to run daily online satellites so you can win your way into the biggest events of the Borgata Winter Poker Open, including the live-streamed WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship.  The first two weeks of online satellites generated fifty $560 buy-ins into the $2 million guaranteed opening event!

BorgataPoker.com Heads Up Invitational Freeroll Winners (January 24, 2016)

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Heads Up Tournament Leaderboard

Congratulations to our 32 winners from the BorgataPoker.com Heads Up Invitational Freeroll Tournament on Sunday, January 24, 2016

PlacePlayerPrize Description
1lankyluke$2,150 Heads Up Land-based entry
2Wigler13$750 TD$
3Eskimo_Frenzy$300 TD$
4kapone4life$300 TD$
5GM-MitchMurphy$150 TD$
6joeyh1935$150 TD$
7NoXcape$150 TD$
8mags69$150 TD$
9Iplay4cake$50 TD$
10TimmyKGB17$50 TD$
11deadmoneyking99$50 TD$
12LarryDavid23$50 TD$
13TwinTurbo300zx$50 TD$
14iwillbustyou$50 TD$
15flabbergast$50 TD$
16biggerbill$50 TD$
17TurtlePitt$25 TD$
18Jenger$25 TD$
19Tiquizzle$25 TD$
20jdimo19$25 TD$
21PRYORITEES$25 TD$
22TaintedMaverick$25 TD$
23jalbin3$25 TD$
24belooga$25 TD$
25crazeelf666$25 TD$
26sri50k$25 TD$
27PokerThanks$25 TD$
28jilly630155$25 TD$
29MindOverFish$25 TD$
30Gordon1174$25 TD$
31losthope78$25 TD$
32fetgrem123$25 TD$

Win up to $1,000 Cash in the $5,000 Winter Sweepstakes

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$5,000 Winter SweepstakesTrade in your snow shovel this weekend for a chance at a pile of cash. Join us for the $5,000 Winter Sweepstakes and you could find yourself sitting on a cool $1,000.

We’ve packed our Winter Sweepstakes with mountains of cash and Bonus Dollars. To get in on $5,000 in cash and prizes, sign in to your BorgataCasino.com account between Friday, January 22nd and Sunday, January 24th. Then, make a deposit of just $10 or more using bonus code SNOWFLAKE16 to get your first entry in the drawing.

Want more entries? Just play your favorite slots at BorgataCasino.com. For every 20 iRewards Points you earn, you’ll receive one additional entry into the Winter Sweepstakes drawing, up to 10 entries per day. With that first entry for depositing plus three days to play and earn, it all adds up to as many as 31 entries.

Our Grand Prize winner will walk away with $1,000 cash and the next 99 names we pull will share $4,000 in Bonus Dollars. The Winter Sweepstakes runs all weekend long, so don’t miss out on your chance to win.

Borgata Winter Poker Open January 19 – February 5

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Winter Poker OpenLooking forward to the Borgata Winter Poker Open being held at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa January 19 – February 5? Need a little information on what the schedule is, what to expect and reports on the live action?

Then we have the site for you at our Borgata Winter Poker Open information page.

Get tournament schedules, special offers for players and link directly to Borgata’s live action blog. There will also be four events that are live streamed including the $3 million guaranteed Borgata WPT Championship January 31 – February 5.

The open begins January 19 with a $2 million guaranteed, $500 + $60 buy-in, Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em event with six opening sessions.

All events this year will be held in Borgata’s Event Center.

This year’s 22 Main Events carry $6.7 million in guarantees, including Event 10, a $1 million guaranteed $400 + $50 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em tournament.

There’s also a full line-up of satellite events for the Borgata Championship event and online satellites for Open Events underway at BorgataPoker.com.

During the Winter Poker Open, four events will have live-streamed final tables:

Event 1:  $500 + $60 Deep Stack NLH, $2 Million GTD; Final Table: Sunday, January 24, 12pm

Event 10: $400 + $50 Deep Stack NLH, $1 Million GTD; Final Table: Saturday, January 30, 4pm

Event 14: $2,000 + $150 Heads Up NLH; Final Rounds: Saturday, January 31, 12pm

Event 17: $3,300 + $200 Borgata WPT Championship NLH; Final Table: Friday, February 5, 12pm

Other events include two $100,000 GTD Saturday Series events, two Pot Limit Omaha events, an Omaha/Stud High/Low event, both Ladies and Seniors events, a $1,000 buy-in Six Max NLH event with a $200,000 Guarantee, and a $1,000 buy-in Turbo NLH event.  Both the Super Stack Elevator and 40 Big Blinds tournaments, which joined the Borgata Open series lineup in 2015, will take place during the Winter Open.

For the first time ever, this year’s open will also feature a Charity Series of Poker (CSOP) tournament as a trophy event (Event 16).  The fund-raising tournament takes place Saturday, January 30 at 5pm.  For more details on the charity and its mission, check out www.charityseriesofpoker.org.

It’s time for some grinding at the Borgata Winter Poker Open.

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