Atlantic City Casinos Blog

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (August 2, 2011) – The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa has announced details of its ninth annual Borgata Poker Open tournament series, beginning on Wednesday, September 7, and concluding with the televised World Poker Tour® (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Championship, running September 18-23. The $3,500 buy-in Championship event boasts a guaranteed $3 [...]

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (JULY 11, 2011) – This summer, Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa once again raises the bar in Atlantic City, offering a summer season of performances by the biggest names in entertainment – including superstar Rihanna, Soundgarden and comedy stars Jerry Seinfeld and Daniel Tosh. The Resorts is also unveiling a new bar [...]

  Shuffle up and deal.    The Borgata’s second annual spring poker tournament starts Wednesday. There will be 52 events involving several different games.    The championship Texas Hold’Em tournament is starts June 19 and 20, two different groups, and goes until the final table on June 22. A guaranteed prize pool of half a [...]

   Memorial Day weekend is about two weeks away, and Atlantic City is gearing up for the summer season. There are a lot of changes going on in town, as gaming halls get ready to compete for the summer visitors’ dollars. Here are some of the highlights:    – The “Trump” signs came down from [...]

   This is the time of year when casino promotions usually start to dry up. It’s getting nice out, and people are coming to the shore anyway and don’t need special deals to lure them to town. Not this year.    Casinos have apparently found that the deals they offered in the spring are working, and [...]

   I went to the Borgata today for the last day of the April Showers slot promotion. For those unfamiliar, at a random point each hour from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., everyone playing slots with their card inserted in the reader got free slot play. Black Label players got $20 an hour, Red Label [...]

   The Borgata’s Spring Poker Open got underway this week, with a series of 53 tournaments in plenty of games. Buy-ins start at $200.    The main event, which starts April 24, has a new twist. If you buy in for $2,500 and bust out, you can enter again to play the second half of [...]

   It’s a good time to play in Alantic City. The weather is starting to warm up, albeit very slowly, but the summer crowds aren’t here yet.    The Borgata is having a Sunday promotion in April. An alarm goes off randomly once an hour, and people playing slots with their tracking card inserted automatically [...]

   If you’re looking to take the ACES train from New York to Atlantic City, or the other way around, you’re out of luck. The local paper reported today that the rail line is suspending service until May 13. They said there weren’t enough off-season riders to make it economically prudent to run the train.    The Borgata [...]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (December 8, 2010) – On Saturday, December 11, 2010 (12.11.10) at 9:08p.m., time will stand still for 35 lucky winners at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa during this once-in-a-lifetime moment in history. Borgata is inviting guests to countdown to cash until the zero hour for the chance to be one of five [...]