Wpt Borgata Winter Poker Open Satellite Qualifier
- Wpt Borgata Winter Poker Open Satellite Qualifiers
- Wpt Borgata Winter Poker Open Satellite Qualifier 2020
The World Poker Tour (WPT) is coming to New Jersey. WPT and partypoker NJ are teaming up to bring the first-ever WPT Online Poker Open to the Garden State.
WPT Online Poker Open highlights. Buy-ins for the WPT Online Poker Open range from $5 to $400, with guarantees falling between $1,000 and $300,000. The guarantees come in on the lower end of the some of the most recent guarantees of other tournament series. Players without a bankroll can satellite into the tournament beginning on June 21 for.
$215 entry, $400 satellite and $3500 WPT Main tickets must register within 24 hours of acquisition and must be used for targeted events (WPT Online Poker Open). Unused tickets will be forfeited. Tickets are non-transferrable and non-negotiable. The WPT Online Poker Open may be a first for the US market, but it follows on the heels of a similar, larger series on partypoker’s international network. The two companies joined forces in May to offer a series of 54 events with $35 million in combined guarantees. The best finish for a ClubWPT qualifier came in 2018 at the Borgata Poker Open. Bruce Collado, from Surprise, Ariz., finished 56th out of 1,075 entries for $11,123. Other qualifiers who have scored some cash include: Jim McLaughlin – 100th at the Borgata Poker Open in 2017 for $6,993.
Online poker in New Jersey has seen a resurgence of late. The market has enjoyed significant growth while people were required to stay at home.
One sign of a booming market is the online poker tournament scene. The fact that WPT is coming to NJ shows how the once-struggling online poker scene has rebounded in recent months.
WPT Vice President of Global Tour Management Angelica Hael spoke about the opportunity for NJ online poker players in a news release.
“WPT and partypoker US Network are coming together to provide the New Jersey network of online players the opportunity to compete in a world-class event and take part in a familiar WPT experience.”
NJ online poker players can win their way to a live WPT event
The 13-event series runs June 21-28 and concludes with a $300,000 guaranteed Main Event.
Along with the prize money from winning the Main Event, the winner will be given a WPT trophy and a trip to Las Vegas.
The VIP experience on the Strip includes entry into the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic at Bellagio.
The Five Diamond World Poker Classic sports a hefty buy-in of $10,400. The big buy-in results in a big payday. Last year’s winner, professional poker player Alex Foxen, won $1,694,995.
Wpt Borgata Winter Poker Open Satellite Qualifiers
The added bonus of the Las Vegas VIP package makes the $400 WPT Online Poker Open Main Event a must-play event. And you can bet the WPT will put plenty of effort into getting players to turn out to ensure a nice payday at this event as well.
WPT Online Poker Open highlights
Wpt Borgata Winter Poker Open Satellite Qualifier 2020
Buy-ins for the WPT Online Poker Open range from $5 to $400, with guarantees falling between $1,000 and $300,000. The guarantees come in on the lower end of the some of the most recent guarantees of other tournament series.
Players without a bankroll can satellite into the tournament beginning on June 21 for just $5.
The tournament kicks off with a pot-limit Omaha event, but the rest of the WPT Online Poker Open consists of no-limit hold ’em events.
There are a few events with larger guarantees that stand out. They are:
- June 24 – Event #6, $215 NLH with $20,000 guaranteed
- June 26 – Event #9, $215 NLH with $15,000 guaranteed
- June 27 – Event #11, $320 Black Chip Bounty NLH with $15,000 guaranteed
- June 28 – $400 WPT Online Poker Open Main Event with $300,000 guaranteed
NJ online poker players on partypokerNJ and its NJ partners, Borgata Poker and BetMGM Casino NJ, can participate.
“We look forward to our first event with partypoker US Network and a great start to a long-term partnership,” said Hael.
Planning to be in New Jersey on June 28? Play the #WPTOnline Poker Open powered by @partypokerUS with a $300,000 guarantee! Play starts at 5:00 pm ET and qualifiers begin at $5.
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— World Poker Tour (@WPT) June 11, 2020
WPT Online Poker Open NJ schedule
The WPT Online Poker Open guarantees over $370,000 in prize money to NJ online poker players. Here is the WPT Online Poker Open schedule:
| Date | Time (ET) | Tournament | Buy-in | Guarantee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 22 | 6:30 p.m. | #1 - PLO 6-Max Rebuy | $5 | $1,000 |
| June 22 | 7 p.m. | #2 - NLH | $10 | $2,500 |
| June 23 | 6:30 p.m. | #3 - Red Chip Bounty NLH | $10 | $2,000 |
| June 23 | 7:30 p.m. | #4 - Green Chip Bounty NLH | $109 | $7,500 |
| June 24 | 6:30 p.m. | #5 - NLH | $5 | $1,500 |
| June 24 | 8 p.m. | #6 - NLH | $215 | $20,000 |
| June 25 | 6:30 p.m. | #7 - NLHE R & A | $10 | $2,500 |
| June 26 | 6:30 p.m. | #8 - NLH | $5 | $2,000 |
| June 26 | 8 p.m. | #9 - NLH | $215 | $15,000 |
| June 27 | 7 p.m. | #10 - NLHE R & A | $10 | $2,500 |
| June 27 | 7:30 p.m. | #11 - Black Chip Bounty NLH | $320 | $15,000 |
| June 28 | 5 p.m. | WPT Online Poker Open Main Event | $400 | $300,000 |
| June 28 | 7:30 p.m. | #12 - Red Chip Bounty NLH | $20 | $2,000 |
Poker News Daily has confirmed that the Borgata Poker Classic has been removed from the schedule for Season VII of the World Poker Tour (WPT). Officials from both the WPT and Borgata confirmed that the event will not be a part of the seventh installment of the marquee poker tour, which will air on cable station Fox Sports Net. The tournament is also called the Borgata Winter Open and will go on as planned in January at the New Jersey casino.
On Sunday, December 7th, the Borgata is holding a Winter Open Super Satellite. The $1,100 buy-in event will award a $20,000 prize package for every 20 players registered, which includes a $3,200 buy-in to the Borgata Poker Open Main Event as well as $16,800 in cash. In January of 2008, the Borgata Poker Open, then a World Poker Tour sanctioned tournament, had a Main Event that came with a $10,000 price tag. According to Borgata’s website, the Main Event of the Borgata Winter Open will take place from January 25th through 29th, 2009.
The 2008 Borgata Poker Open, a World Poker Tour stop that takes place in September, was won by Vivek Rajkumar, who is known as “Psyduck” in the online poker world. The event drew 516 players, which was down from the 560 who took the field in 2007. There were 540 players who descended on the Borgata for the 2006 installment of the fall tournament. However, the drop-off in number of players from 2007 to 2008, 8%, was noticeable. Rajkumar defeated a six-man final table that also included Sang Kim, Dan Heimiller, Jason Strochak, Mark Seif, and Andrew Knee. Heimiller and Seif are both World Series of Poker bracelet holders.
January’s Borgata Poker Classic was won by Gavin Griffin, who became the only player ever to have won major titles in WPT, WSOP, and European Poker Tour events. His WSOP bracelet came by virtue of winning a $3,000 buy-in Pot Limit Hold’em tournament in 2004. He defeated Gary Bush heads-up and Ultimate Bet pro Phil Hellmuth finished seventh. Griffin won the EPT’s Monte Carlo Grand Final during Season 3, its annual end of season tournament, pocketing $2.4 million in the process. That final table featured his heads-up opponent, Marc Karam, as well as Andy Black and Ram Vaswani.
The WPT is currently on hiatus until December 13th, when the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event begins. The tournament will crown a champion six days later. The $15,000 buy-in event awards 45,000 starting chips to each player. Blind levels last 90 minutes each and there is a 15 minute break held at the end of each level. The winner of the Five Diamond World Poker Classic, like the champion of each of the season’s tournaments, receives an entry into the $25,000 WPT Championship, which is held at the Bellagio every April.
Preliminary events at the Bellagio begin on Friday with a $540 buy-in Spade Club No Limit Hold’em tournament that kicks off at 2:00pm local time. A series of No Limit tournaments take place between Saturday and December 11th and the buy-ins for these events range between $1,590 and $5,180. Visit the Bellagio website for more details.
From the Bellagio, the WPT crew travels southeast to the Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi for the Southern Poker Championship. It’s a $10,000 buy-in event. The tournament was called the Gulf Coast Poker Championship during Season VI and was held in September of 2007. It attracted 256 entrants and was won by Bill Edler, who defeated a final table that included new World Poker Association Board Member “Captain” Tom Franklin.