Borgata Poker Tournaments August 2019

Learn more about the poker room and poker tournaments, including monthly and championship tournaments, at Beau Rivage in Biloxi, MS. Poker Room & Tournaments - Beau Rivage Resort & Casino We are now open following a temporary closure due to damages sustained from Hurricane Zeta. The $1 Million Guaranteed 2019 Borgata Summer Poker Open Championship fielded 514 entrants and created a prize pool in excess of $1.2 million. The final table was Live Streamed on Twitch TV and Borgata’s Facebook page and the audience watched as Jackob Datashvili made the right reads and caught the cards when he needed them.

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The Borgata Poker Open (BPO) has become one of the most highly-anticipated tournament series of the year, and for the 2019 edition – which will feature 23 events from September 3-20 – PokerNews will be on-site to provide live updates for 18 days straight.

The stop kicks off on Tuesday with Event #1: $600 Deepstack Kick-Off, a tournament that features a $1,000,000 guarantee and will hold six starting flights. It’s always one of the biggest tournaments on the East Coast as evidenced by last year’s event, which drew 3,106 entries. Justin Leeds won that tournament as part of a four-way deal that saw everyone lock up $170,535 in prize money.

Other highlights on the schedule include the Event #3: $500 Black Chip Bounty ($200k GTD), Event #9: $300 Deepest Stack ($200k GTD), and Event #10: $400 Almighty Stack ($750k GTD), just to name a few.

Don't Miss the WPT BPO Championship

The stop will culminate with the World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Championship, a $3,500 buy-in tournament with a $3,000,000 guarantee from September 15-20. Last year, that tournament attracted 1,075 entries and offered up a $3,441,075 prize pool. In the end, it was Erkut Yilmaz besting Timothy Miles to capture the title and $575,112 prize.

It will mark the 17th time the WPT has held the Borgata Poker Open Championship, which dates all the way back to Season II in 2003. Past winners include the late Noli Francisco, Daniel Negreanu, Mark Newhouse, Vivek Rajkumar, Olivier Busquet, Anthony Zinno, and Darren Elias.

Others who won titles at the 2018 BPO included Blake Whittington (Event #3: $400 Black Chip Bounty), Jamie Giunta (Event #8: $300 Ladies), James Mackey (Event #20: $1,200 Double Stack Chip Bounty), and Eric Siegel (Event #22: $300 Deeper Stack).

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In just the latest salvo in the ongoing war between poker professional Phil Ivey and the Atlantic City casino the Borgata, Ivey’s winnings at the 2019 World Series of Poker have been garnished and are in the hands of federal authorities. By taking this action, the state of Nevada and its businesses are officially endorsing the decisions of the courts in New Jersey, which could put a damper on Ivey ever playing again in the States of America.

Ivey’s Winnings at 2019 WSOP Going to theBorgata

According to Haley Hintze at Flushdraw, the Borgata took the unusual approach of contacting Caesars Entertainment in July while Ivey was playing in one of only two events he took part in at the WSOP, the $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship. In a letter, attorneys for Marina District Development Co, LLC (the ownership group behind the Borgata) stated that they had an “writ of execution” that had been delivered to WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel. In that writ, the Borgata attorneys stated that “any assets due Mr. Ivey from…Event #58 (and WSOP bracelet if he is the winner)” would be seized by federal agents to execute previous judgments against Ivey.

Ivey went into Day 3 of the PPC in the chip lead and was able to make it to eighth place before he was eliminated. The $124,400 payday that would have normally immediately gone to Ivey was instead frozen and, in mid-July, Caesars Entertainment issued a check to the U. S. Marshals Service for the appropriate amount. They also filed for and were granted a release from any further involvement in the case as they had given the winnings to the appropriate parties, stating “Caesars is not the employer of Mr. Ivey…thus, Caesars has delivered the total Ivey Funds to the United States Marshal Service, fulfilling its obligations and relieving itself of further liability.”

“Edge Sorting” Case Continues to HauntIvey

For those late to the game, thegarnishment of Ivey’s WSOP winnings is but the latest in the ongoing story withthe lawsuit that Ivey and the Borgata have been involved in. The lawsuit, whichwas brought by the Borgata in 2012, alleged that Ivey and a cohort hadconspired to cheat the casino during a private baccarat session at the casino.Ivey, in bringing his action to the Atlantic City casino, asked for andreceived a litany of “special” demands, then proceeded to rack up over $10million in winnings.

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It wasn’t until after Ivey’s actions in a Britishcasino came to the fore that the Borgata acted. Ivey was judged by a Britishcourt to have cheated a casino in London by using a tactic called “edgesorting,” in which slight imperfections in the cuts of a particular deck ofcards are noted and cards that are advantageous to the player are in somemanner marked. In Ivey’s case, the British casino alleged that he had thedealer rotate cards 180 degrees (supposedly as a “superstition”) so that hewould notice the different cards. In that British case, the casino didn’t haveto pay Ivey nearly $11 million in winnings because of the “edge sorting.”

The Borgata case played out in nearly the same manner, with a New Jersey judge finding that, while Ivey wasn’t literally “cheating,” the actions that Ivey and his cohort used were unfair “advantage play.” The difference was that, in the Borgata case, they had paid out the $10 million to Ivey ($9.7 million in baccarat winnings and another $400,000 in craps winnings that Ivey had used the baccarat money on).

Ivey was ordered by the courts to pay backthe winnings in 2016 and, since that time, the song and dance has continued.Ivey’s attorneys have asserted that paying the bill in a lump sum would have animpact on his professional career, while the Borgata states that Ivey continuesto live well and play high stakes poker without any impediments. Earlier thisyear, the Borgata did earn the abilityto garnish any proceeds Ivey gets in the state of Nevada, setting up theaction by Caesars Entertainment regarding Ivey’s PPC winnings.

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The End of Phil Ivey?

The decision by Caesars Entertainment and the Nevada courts could effectively spell the end for Phil Ivey ever playing tournament poker again in the state and, arguably, in the U. S. Two state courts have now adjudicated that Ivey owes the Borgata $10 million and one business has garnished his winnings in a poker tournament to put towards paying off that adjudication. If Ivey cannot win money in tournaments in the U. S. because those winnings would be garnished immediately (courts in other states aren’t going to side with Ivey in this case), then it is highly likely that he won’t bother playing in the U. S. to avoid the entire issue.

Many might say, “Why don’t Ivey just pay off the judgement?” Honestly, it could be a case that Ivey doesn’t have the liquidity to be able to handle a eight-figure bulk payout like that. Many people with investments, home ownership and other businesses may well be “millionaires,” but they also don’t have much of that wealth in cash on hand. Ivey, even though he has been rumored to be worth up to $100 million, may not have anywhere near the $10 million necessary to pay off the Borgata for the decision in the case.

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While he may continue playing outside of the U. S. (where state judgments do not have as much impact), we could be effectively seeing the end of Phil Ivey’s tournament poker career in North America.