Borgata Poker Tournaments July 2019
While thousands of players from around the world have flocked to Sin City to play the 50th anniversary of the World Series of Poker, east coast grinders should not feel left out as the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey has announced the full schedule of its upcoming premiere live tournament series.
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As a summer of tournament poker dawns, Atlantic City’s Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa is gearing up for another festival. The 2019 Borgata Summer Poker Open is set to get underway on July 9. Live and Upcoming Events. Dec 15 2020: WPTDeepStacks Taiwan: Dec 27 2020: WPT Online Poker Open powered by partypoker US Network. Borgata poker tournament schedule and information, including starting times, buy-ins, prize pool guarantees, and freerolls.
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Scheduled to return from July 9 (four days after the final starting flight of the WSOP Main Event Day 1), this year’s Borgata Summer Poker Open (BSPO) boasts $3.4 million in guarantees spread over 21 tournaments.
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As already revealed by pokerfuse last month, the series will kick off with the traditional $600 buy-in Deepstack event featuring six Day 1 starting flights. The event boasts a massive $1 million guarantee and will run for five days (July 9-13).
Another event featuring a seven-figure guarantee is the marquee $2700 buy-in Summer Poker Championship event scheduled to run from July 21 to 25. It will once again feature two days of Day 1 starting flights. Day 2 and Day 3 will be played on July 23 and July 24 respectively. The final day of the event will be played on July 25 and it will be live-streamed on Borgata’s Twitch channel.
Other highlights include the $450 buy-in Almighty Stack event boasting $500,000 guarantee. The event runs from July 16 also featuring five starting flights with the final day to be played on July 20.
There will also be a Pot Limit Omaha event with a buy-in of $340, a $100,000 guaranteed Saturday Series Deepstack on July 20, as well as a Ladies event and a Seniors event.
Online qualifiers and satellites to the million guaranteed events will run on BorgataPoker.com from June 23 to July 21. Players can qualify for the land-based events for as low as $5.
The Borgata Summer Poker Open is the casino’s third of its five major live series held at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa every year. The recently concluded Borgata Spring Poker Open paid out more than $4.5 million across 21 tournaments. Each of the tournaments except for two surpassed their guarantees with ease. The $2700 Championship event attracted 505 total entries to amass a prize pool of $1.22 million.
Ahead of the BSPO in July, Borgata has scheduled two live tournament series. The first is the Deepstacks challenge featuring over $300,000 in guaranteed prize pools across 13 tournaments. The series runs for 13 days from June 10-22 hosting one tournament on each day. Buy-ins range from $120 to $400. Each of the tournaments carries a guarantee.
On June 29, the casino will host the Borgata Sportsbook Poker Open tournament to mark the opening of the new sports betting venue. Two new sportsbook bars dubbed as the Moneyline Bar & Book and Level One Cocktail Bar & Lounge will be launched on June 29. As per the press release, Borgata spent more than $12 million in development of this project which the casino initially called a new “destination bar.” The construction of this new venue began in late January.
The Sportsbook Poker Open tournament will cost $300 to enter and it will feature $25,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Borgata Summer Poker Open runs from July 9 to July 26.
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event kicked off on Sunday with the first of two starting flights. 271 entries were tallied on the day, though expect loads more on Monday. Leading the 129 survivors into Day 2 is Mukharji Uppalapati with 252,400 chips.
The Borgata Poker Open is one of the few “old guard” stops on the World Poker Tour, having been part of the schedule since Season II (we are now in Season XVIII). It began as one of the biggies on the live tournament calendar, boasting a $10,000 buy-in. But like most of the WPT Main Events, the buy-in was decreased on a number of years ago to encourage more signups. In Season VIII, the buy-in was set at $3,500, which is where it has been ever since.
At the same time, unlimited re-entries are permitted all the way through the first two levels of Day 2. Thus, the WPT Borgata Poker Open can draw more players with the lower buy-in, but the re-entries can still goose the prize pool.
Day 1A was pretty darn competitive at the top of the leaderboard. Asher Conniff is close behind Uppalapati with 247,800. Three other players beat the 200,000 mark: Ryan Olisar (229,700), Bruce Kramer (211,600), and Larry Ormson (204,600). Lucas Drolet was also just a few hundred chips underneath the 200,000 chip plateau.
Uppalapati is essentially a regional player, hailing from Gaithersburg, Maryland. His $112,454 in live earnings are all fairly small, the largest of which is about $25,000. Most of his cashes have come at Maryland Live! Casino and all but one is at a Maryland venue. The lone holdout is his biggest cash, which came from a sixth place finish in a preliminary event at the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open this past January.
The plan for today is the exact as yesterday. After all, it would not be fair to players in either starting flight if Days 1A and 1B differed. There will be eight hour-long levels with 15-minute breaks every two levels. Interestingly (or not, I don’t know), there will be no dinner break. The first two levels of Day 2, during which players can still register and re-enter, will also be 60 minutes. After that, they will be 75 minutes for the rest of Tuesday. The big blind ante is in effect from the jump.
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The eventual winner of the tournament will have some big shoes to fill. Last year’s champ was Erkut Yilmaz who then went on to win WPT Rolling Thunder and the WPT Player of the Year award.
2019 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open Main Event – Day 1A Chip Leaders
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- Mukharji Uppalapati – 252,400
- Asher Conniff – 247,800
- Ryan Olisar – 229,700
- Bruce Kramer – 211,600
- Larry Ormson – 204,600
- Lucas Drolet – 199,100
- Jordan Fisch – 180,200
- Connor Daum – 177,200
- Andrew Ostapchenko – 165,800
- Spencer Champlin – 163,000