Amid a slew of New Year tournament series to take part in, the Borgata Winter Poker Open ticks all the boxes. East Coast fun? Check. $10 million in guarantees? You bet. Five poker stars to invest your money in and watch for them to crush? Absolutely. With events continuing through to January 26th, the New […]

Pulling out the biggest Mystery Bounty is a thrill for any player. But what if the biggest bounty is worth a quarter of a million dollars and its still in play when the last nine players reach the final table? Now that’s exciting. Add in being short stack of those nine and you have one […]

The World Poker Tour and the partypoker US Network are teaming up, once again, to bring New Jersey online poker players the first-ever WPT Online Borgata Series.

The World Poker Tour’s third Las Vegas final table next week will be the Season XVII WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open. The final six from the booming 1,415-entry field will look to crown a champion on Wednesday, following the conclusion of the WPT L.A. Poker Classic on Monday and WPT Gardens Poker Championship on Tuesday. […]

Season XVII of the World Poker Tour saw the WPT head to the cold Northeast for the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open in Atlantic City. A whopper of a field turned out for the $3,500 buy-in event, as 1,415 entries were generated to make it the largest WPT Main Tour event at Borgata and the […]

Sometimes you just have to take a shot. That’s exactly what well-travelled New Jersey grinder Michael Azzaro thought when it came to the 2019 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure schedule.

Nearly every ride at Disney World starts with a slow build-up and crescendos into some combination of speed and excitement before inevitably slowing to a halt to allow the rider to safely depart. The last 14 months of Anthony Maio’s life have closely resembled a thrill ride, but one that shows no signs of slowing […]

42-year-old Erkut Yilmaz started the final table of the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open with the chip lead and over the course of six hours of play fought off TK Miles to add his name to the WPT Champions Cup while picking up a $575,112 payday.

The World Poker Tour returns to the East Coast for the popular WPT Borgata Poker Open. Taking place from September 16-23, the third stop of Season 17 features a $3,500 Main Event with a $3 million guarantee.

Ross ‘Acanthopis’ Gottlieb had himself an interesting weekend at the Borgata Spring Poker Open. The New Jersey veterinarian cashed in two events in a single day to earn himself over $10,000. What started as a day of heartbreak soon turned into an epic night of grinding. Gottlieb is on a run as of late on […]

Michael ‘gags30’ Gagliano opened 2018 as the king of the New Jersey Online Poker Rankings and maintains his position after the first month of the year. Gagliano widened the gap between him and second-place Yong ‘ykwon17’ Kwon thanks to major wins across NJ’s regulated network.

Anna ‘OhUrAPro’ Antimony used to grind on the slim margins of the Borgata $2/$5 cash games until a tournament result opened her game and life up to new possibilities. Last November, Antimony chopped the Borgata Fall Poker Open Event #1 for $126,146. For the first time in her professional career, Antimony had the bankroll flexibility […]

The tragedy left behind by Hurricane Harvey in the greater Houston area has brought people from all walks of life together to give back to those in need. The rebuilding process will take years and led by Asher Conniff, over two dozen poker players are doing what they can to help by donating to the […]

The poker world runs through Twitter in 2017 and the majority of the players use Twitter to stay connected, among many other things, as they grind their way through life. Twitter allows players to develop their own voice away from whatever table they are on and Edwin Roman, who plays in New Jersey under the […]

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