Atlantic City Poker Tournaments and Poker Rooms

Poker Tournaments & Poker Rooms in Atlantic City

Looking for Atlantic City poker tournaments and poker rooms in Atlantic City?  Your best bet for Atlantic City poker is the Boardwalk and Marina area where a number of major casinos hold regular poker tournaments in some very nice poker rooms.

The Atlantic City poker rooms below offer the best variety of spreads and poker games including Texas Holdem, Seven Card Stud poker and Omaha poker.  There are plenty of low limit poker games in Atlantic City with Trump Taj Mahal and Borgata seeing most of the high stakes poker games.

Atlantic City Poker - Boardwalk & Marina Area       

Bally's Atlantic City
(609) 340-1141 or (800) BALLYS-7
Ballys Atlantic City - Ballys Casino has two poker rooms, one in the main Ballys Casino and one in Ballys Wild West Casino.

Ballys Casino has 20 poker tables located in Billy's Poker Parlor on the 6th floor.  There are generally 15 tables dealing Texas Holdem and five tables dealing seven card stud poker games.  Billy's Poker Parlor has no limit Texas Holdem poker tournaments Monday through Friday.  Buy-ins usually range from $60 to $100.  Poker tournaments generally take place in the evening, but call ahead for times (609) 340-1141.

Ballys Wild West Casino has 10 poker tables located next to the Simulcast area in the casino.  The games are mostly Texas Holdem and Seven Card Stud.  The Wild West poker room has no limit Texas Holdem poker tournaments on Wednesday and Friday.  Sit & Go single table poker tournaments are available every day from 10 am until midnight.

Borgata
(609) 317-1000 or (866) 692-6742
The Atlantic City Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa opened in July, 2003.  It is one of the more luxurious casinos in Atlantic City and its comfortable poker room is consistent with that theme.  The Borgata casino has the largest and one of the most popular Atlantic City poker rooms with 85 tables.  Daily poker games include Texas Holdem, Seven Card Stud, and Omaha with spreads generally ranging from about $3 - $6 to $20 - $40.  Larger spreads are often available in the high limit section of the poker room.  The Borgata poker room holds Texas Holdem poker tournaments Monday through Friday (usually two a day) with buy-ins generally ranging from $100 to $300.  Daily Sit & Go poker tournaments are also available with buy-ins from $30 to $1,000.   

The Borgata poker room is host to several annual Atlantic City poker tournaments including the much anticipated Borgata Poker Open in September.  The Borgata Poker Open poker tournaments are very popular and the main event poker tournament is a part of the World Poker Tour as is the Borgata Poker Classic poker tournament hosted in January as part of the Borgata Winter Poker Open.  The Borgata also hosts the annual Borgata Summer Open Poker Tournament in June.  For more info on the Borgata and its poker room, also see Borgata Casino Hotel.

Caesars
The Caesars casino in Atlantic City has a 24 table poker room with fifteen 50" plasma televisions.  The Caesars poker room hosts no limit Texas Holdem poker tournaments most days of the week.  The Caesars poker room is part of the World Series of Poker Tournament Circuit and hosts a WSOP Tournament Circuit poker tournament usually in March.  For more info, call the Caesars poker room at (609) 348-4411 ext. 5109.

Harrahs
(609) 441-5741 or (800) 645-6774
The Harrahs in Atlantic City has a poker room with 24 tables primarily offering low limit Seven Card Stud and Texas Holdem.  Harrahs is one of the hosts for the World Series of Poker Tournament Circuit and typically holds a WSOP Tournament Circuit poker tournament in December.

Hilton Atlantic City
The Atlantic City Hilton has a nice 22 table poker room on the second level of the casino with Texas Holdem, 7 Card Stud, and Omaha poker games.

Resorts
The Atlantic City Resorts casino has a new poker room (opened May 2005) located in front of Platinum Place Slots on the Boardwalk side of the casino.  The Resorts poker room hosts two weekly evening poker tournaments on Tuesday and Thursday.

Sands Atlantic City
Alas, the Sands Atlantic City poker room is no more.  The entire casino was imploded to make room for a new casino resort to be built by Pinnacle Entertainment.

Showboat Atlantic City
(609) 343-4000
The Atlantic City Showboat Casino offers one of newest poker rooms in Atlantic City with 25 tables and a House of Blues style decor.  The Showboat is owned by Harrahs so the poker room often holds poker tournaments related to the World Series of Poker and the World Series of Poker Tournament Circuit.  The Showboat poker room is on the second floor of the casino across from the House of Blues music hall.

Tropicana
(800) 843-8767 or (800) 257-6227
The Tropicana's Atlantic City poker room has 48 poker tables dealing Texas Holdem, Seven Card Stud, and Omaha.  This poker room is the place to be if you also have sports action going as monitors showing sports events are visible from every seat in the poker room.  The Tropicana poker room has a Texas Holdem poker tournament going every day of the week with buy-ins ranging from $20 to $50.

Trump Taj Mahal
(609) 449-1000 or (800) 825-8888
One of the biggest and most popular, the Atlantic City Trump Taj Mahal poker room has over 70 poker tables.  The Trump Taj Mahal poker room deals 7 Card Stud, Texas Holdem and Omaha.  Most days you can also find Hi-Lo poker games for 7 Card Stud and Omaha Eight or Better.  The Trump poker room also has one of the widest varieties of spreads with poker games beginning at $1 - $3 and $2 - $4 and often as high as $300 - $600 on the weekends.  The poker room offers daily poker tournaments, usually no limit Texas Holdem tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $50 to $300.  Trump Taj Mahal also hosts the annual Trump U.S. Poker Championship in September/October and the Trump Classic Poker Tournament in December.  The poker room also offers free poker lessons.  For more about the Trump Taj Mahal and its poker room, see Trump Taj Mahal.

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