Partypoker and Borgata plan to make New Jersey’s next poker millionaire

The eight contestants will be the winners of weekly us$ 10k semi-final qualifying freeroll tournaments. Between now and January 19, players have four routes to enter the promotion. Daily freerolls award the top 25 finishers seats in the us$ 10k semi-final freeroll, or players can enter satellite tournaments to the semi-final using their player points. Any player depositing us$ 50 will be given a semi-final seat, and all players signing up for new accounts within the seven days prior to a semi-final will also get a free semi-final ticket.

The big us$ 1 million number is made up of a WPT Alpha 8 super high roller package (us$ 100K), a WPT World Championship seat (us$ 15K), two entries to us$ 3,500 WPT events held at the Borgata Casino (us$ 7K), 52 tournament entries to the online Sunday us$ 50K (us$ 10,400), us$ 8k in live tournament entries at Borgata in Atlantic City, and the remainder in cash.

None of the other New Jersey licensed sites has yet put up a flagship promotion of this size. Ultimate Poker has a 100% matching us$ 500 first deposit bonus; 888poker has a free us$ 10, and the same deposit bonus which also gives two entries to a daily us$ 10k freeroll. They may be impressive in their own right, but lack the cachet of the headline us$ 1 million offered by the Borgata/partypoker partnership.

According to PokerScout, the partnership has already established a market share of over 50%, and the market is now larger than that in Nevada.