BetMGM hopes to offer the World Collection of Poker (WSOP) a run for its cash this summer time. The main iGaming and on-line sportsbook operator this week introduced the debut of its annual BetMGM Poker Championship, which can happen June 23-26 at ARIA Resort & On line casino in Las Vegas.
A packed poker site at ARIA Resort & On line casino in 2019. The MGM Resorts property on the Las Vegas Strip will host the primary BetMGM Poker Championship this June. (Picture: MGM Resorts)
The BetMGM Poker Championship will go down whereas most of the world’s finest poker gamers are in Las Vegas for the 2022 WSOP and ARIA Poker Basic. MGM Resorts operates ARIA and owns BetMGM.
The primary BetMGM Poker Championship descends on Las Vegas throughout one of the crucial thrilling occasions of the poker season,” mentioned Luke Staudenmaier, director of poker at BetMGM. “ARIA is a legendary poker model and we’re thrilled that the Championship has change into an integral a part of this yr’s Poker Basic.”
The BetMGM Poker Championship is a $3,500 buy-in no restrict maintain’em match. The occasion comes with a assured $1 million prize for the final participant standing. On June 25, the match will embody a $600 buy-in BetMGM Poker Thriller Bounty occasion, which the iGaming agency says can be a primary for ARIA to host a reside poker knockout.
BetMGM Satellites
BetMGM will start working on-line qualifiers now till the June Poker Championship. No less than 15 qualifiers who play their method in can be awarded prize packages that cowl their $3,500 buy-ins and journey bills, which is highlighted by a five-night keep on the Strip on line casino resort.
BetMGM is an iGaming and sportsbook agency that operates three poker websites. The corporate’s poker manufacturers embody BetMGM, Borgata On-line, and partypoker.
BetMGM operates authorized on-line poker in New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and West Virginia. New Jersey and Delaware are two states collaborating within the Multi-State iGaming Settlement (MSIGA) to share participant swimming pools throughout state traces. BetMGM hopes to quickly launch its poker app in Nevada, one other state collaborating within the MSIGA.
Earlier this month, Michigan introduced its intentions to hitch the MSIGA liquidity settlement, too.
Head-to-Head with WSOP
The BetMGM Poker Championship will give yet one more match choice for poker gamers in Las Vegas this summer time. The BetMGM occasions will happen throughout the WSOP’s 53rd installment of probably the most well-known poker sequence on the planet.
Following 17 years on the Rio, the WSOP is transferring to Bally’s and Paris Las Vegas for this yr’s version. The 2022 WSOP runs from Might 31 by means of July 20.
The WSOP’s marquee $10,000 Essential Occasion buy-in begins on July 3. The WSOP expects Essential Occasion participation to return to pre-pandemic ranges after two troublesome years that resulted within the 2020 occasion being hosted on-line till the ultimate desk assembled in particular person.
The 2019 WSOP $10,000 buy-in Essential Occasion garnered a near-record 8,569 buy-ins. Final yr’s occasion attracted solely 6,650 buy-ins. The Essential Occasion’s all-time finest buy-in mark got here in 2006, when the WSOP counted 8,773 buy-ins.
Excluding 2020, the WSOP Essential Occasion has averaged 7,774 buy-ins annually during the last decade.
