Best Atlantic City Poker Rooms
Atlantic City has some of the best poker rooms in United States, below is our Best Of list, enjoy it. Professional Poker Players like Phil Ivey, Cindy Violette and many others play in Atlantic City on regular basis, they prefer the Taj Mahal as their home base. Atlantic City plays host to some unbelievable poker tournaments like the Borgata Poker Open, WPT World Poker Tour, WSP World Series of Poker Circuit events, Atlantic City Poker Open and much more.
Poker has been around for hundreds of years and is now at an all-time high in popularity with the extensive TV exposure the World Series of Poker and the WPT gets annually. The emergence of “Texas Hold-em” has fueled the poker world and allowed the game to become wildly popular around the world. Adding to that is the fact the amateur after amateur seems to be able to win high-stakes poker games and even the World Series. Since there is in fact, allot of luck involved, if you learn the rules of the game, you have a chance to win and win big.
If you find yourself in Atlantic City and you have an itch to play a little poker and see what you can do, then you may want to visit some of these popular Atlantic City Poker rooms…
1. Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa – Great layout, plenty of action, clean and new. The most upscale poker experience in town.
Number of Tables – 85
Buy-Ins – $30+$10 – $1000+$60
Tables run for 24 hours and you can choose from a miriad of different level tournaments. Borgata features daily sit and go’s and multi table tournamnets of all sizes, if you want it, Borgata has it! LCD TV’s are strategically placed all over the room to keep you up to date.
2. Trump Taj Mahal – Featured in the Movie Rounders, massive in size, variety of games, professionals prefer to play here.
*Voted “Poker Room” by the readers of casino player magazine.
Number of Tables – 100 +
Buy-Ins – $48 + $12 – $200+$40
Monday-Thursday at 12:15 pm & 6:15 p.m.: $80 + $20 buy-in No-limit Texas Hold’em
Friday-Sunday at 10:15 am: $80 + $20 buy-in No-limit Texas Hold’em
Friday at 3:15 pm: $80 + $20 buy-in Omaha hi/lo
Friday at 6:15 pm: $200 + $25 buy-in No-limit Texas Hold’em
Saturday & Sunday at 6:15: $300 + $30 buy-in No-limit Texas Hold’em
Depending on the type of poker player you are, you may want to go high stakes or just sit back with a quicker, lower buy-in sit and go. Either way the Trump Taj Mahal is equipped to cater to any and all poker needs. Open 7 days a week, 24 hours per day.
3. Tropicana Casino Atlantic City
Number of Tables – 35
Buy-Ins – $40+$12 – $100+$22
Offering a number of different tournaments, the Tropicana Poker Club is a full service poker facility that even offers a substantial monetary reward to bad hands. The Tropicana “bad beat” tournament is available to everyone who has already participated in a Texas Hold-em event. There are several local Atlantic City Casinos nearby if the rates are too high to stay over night.
4. Caesars Casino
Number of Tables – 24
Buy-Ins – $85 + $15 – $300 + $25
Caesars is not quite as big as some of the other casinos but they offer something most of the others don’t; Texas Hold-em $1-2 No Limit, $2-5 No Limit and $5-10 No Limit games. Structured games start at $2-4, $3-6 and $4-8. Higher limit games are also available based on demand.
5. Bally’s Atlantic City
Number of Tables – 20
Buy-Ins – $40 + $10 – $100 + $20
Bally’s Casino Poker Room features a Bad Beat Jackpot, you can also win additional money if you hit Four of a Kind, A Royal Flush or a Strait Flush which makes it fun. You actually have 2 poker rooms to choose from in Bally’s, one is in the Wild West Section.
6. Showboat – House of Blues
Number of Tables – 25
Buy-Ins – $53 + $12 – $85 + $15
Located near the boardwalk entrance on the second floor, the Showboat House of Blues Poker room also boasts 13 plasma televisions around the room, as well as easy bar access and full waitress service.
7. Harrah’s Atlantic City
Number of Tables – 40
Buy-Ins – $58 + $12 – $175+$25
With every type of poker game available for action around the clock, you will always be able to find a game running. Hosts WSP and WPT Circuit Events all year long. Enter to win a chance to play in the World Series of Poker. Harrah’s Atlantic City easy to get in and get out, you’ll have fun and maybe take down a few big pots.
8. Hilton Casino Atlantic City
Number of Tables – 22
Buy-Ins – Varies with interest and day…
Home to the New Jersey State Poker Championship, Hilton Casino offers a variety of games, the room is realtively new and comfortable.