WPT Borgata Poker Open sets attendance record

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Sep 21, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The World Poker Tour has always had a strong East Coast presence; two of the most anticipated stops on the tour have always been at the Borgata and Foxwoods, but I don’t think anyone was ready for the types of attendance the Borgata Poker Open has been putting up in the last two years.

Last year tournament officials for the WPT Borgata Poker Open made the decision to drop the buy-in of their championship tournament from the typical $10,000 all the way down to a mere $3,500. Furthermore, they also upped the ante by setting a $2 million guarantee on the prize-pool. Since both moves were a first of their kind for the WPT the jury was out on whether the changes would be successful.

Well, after 1,018 players registered for the tournament last year it was a slam-dunk case for the jury: Absolute success! Coming off of last year’s attendance record the Borgata kept the same format for their 2010 tournament, and once again they set an attendance record, this time drawing 1,042 total entrants.

One change the tournament did implement was to use a flatter payout structure, so the winner of the tournament will walk away with $733,802 compared to Olivier Busquet’s $925,514 haul from a year ago, despite a higher total prize-pool.

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