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JERSEY CITY, NJ – (November 30, 2023) – BetMGM Poker is the exclusive home for online qualifiers for the Borgata Winter Poker Open which features 22 main events and over $10,000,000 in guarantees. The New Year begins with the biggest guarantees in Borgata Poker history and one of the largest North American poker series of 2024.

Starting in December, BetMGM Poker players in New Jersey, Michigan, and Pennsylvania can win seats to the Borgata Winter Poker Open powered by BetMGM which runs from January 2 through January 26.

“The road to the Borgata Winter Poker Open starts online exclusively on BetMGM Poker. The first poker millionaire of the year will again be crowned at the East Coast’s premier poker room and we look forward to giving players increased omni-channel opportunities across more MGM properties in 2024."
LUKE STAUDENMAIER - DIRECTOR OF POKER, BETMGM

Each Wednesday from December 3 – 27, players can enter $215 qualifiers to win Borgata seat-only packages. These packages award entry to the $800 buy-in Kickoff and $500 buy-in Almighty Million events, plus travel credit and a BetMGM Poker swag bag. 

All main events for the Borgata Winter Poker Open are reported to the GPI Index and Hendon Mob. The Borgata Winter Poker Open schedule and tournament information can be found on theborgata.com. Additional information about online qualification and registration is available at BetMGMPoker.com.

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With modern technology came the advent of complex online slots, including more dazzling themes, better graphics and visuals, and multi-line slots replacing the more traditional single-line games. Whether multi-line games benefit players more than single-line depends on your point of view and how much excitement and complexity you’re looking for. 

Some players prefer the simplicity of single-line slots, where they can easily see the symbol combinations line up to trigger a win. Players need their wits about them to track the multi-line games, which may play horizontally, vertically, or even diagonally. But what are the differences, advantages and disadvantages, and benefits to players of the two kinds of slots?

Multi-Line vs. Single Line Slots
Single-line slots derive from the old-fashioned one-armed bandit or fruit machine, in which symbols lined up along one payline to pay out wins. In single-line games, there are fewer symbols, making it easier to create winning combinations, but there are necessarily fewer of those combinations and, therefore, fewer betting options.

In multi-line online slot machines, the number of paylines varies enormously right up into the hundreds, and these slots win real money. Multi-line slots also offer more elaborate themes, from ancient civilizations to TV- and movie-themed games, games built around sports and animals, and much more.

If you’re a slots novice, you can register with BetMGM to start playing some basic games or test your mettle with the wide variety of multi-line games that are on offer.

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In the past few years, I testified as an expert witness in two major hearings where “best practices” had important and surprising roles.

The Bergin Inquiry reexamined the entire system of regulating casinos in New South Wales, Australia.  Five years earlier, NSW had hired an outside firm to review and rewrite its casino regulations.  It did so, based on the startling idea “best practices” requires “risk‑based regulation,” meaning basically casinos should self-regulate.

World Capital Ventures Cyprus Ltd. v. The Czech Republic was a hundred-million-dollar international arbitration brought by operators and suppliers of gaming devices after the national and local governments ordered half of all slot machines in the country removed.  The industry expert testified that “best practices” means the minimum amount of regulation needed to create the maximum amount of gaming revenue.  And, because “best practices” had not been put in place, he concluded that all government actions had to be reversed.

My major contribution to the Bergin Inquiry was that casinos were not adult Disneylands. The Bergin Report adopted all my conclusions, which were then adopted by Parliament, including creating the NSW Independent Casino Commission.  The idea of casino self-regulation received a fatal blow when the Crown Resorts chair admitted its casinos laundered money, allegedly due to lack of oversight.  Crown’s failure to carry out due diligence on high-rollers, some with ties to organized crime, resulted in a fine of $450 million.

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Irvine, CA (October 19, 2023) – The World Poker Tour® has locked in the first half of the Season XXII schedule, offering an eclectic combination of seven WPT® Prime and four WPT Main Tour festivals across the globe from late January to early June.

“As we approach the end of Season XXI and the WPT World Championship, we are proud to share the schedule for the first half of Season XXII,” said WPT CEO Adam Pliska. “We worked vigorously with our casino partners to solidify dates for these impressive, value-packed festivals so that players may plan their 2024 schedules.”

Kicking off Season XXII is Main Tour stop WPT Cambodia at NagaWorld in Phnom Penh with the festival running Jan. 17-30 and the Championship event going Jan. 25-29. Second up on the Main Tour is the return of WPT Rolling Thunder at Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Northern California with festival dates spanning March 7-26, and the $3,500 Championship event starting March 23.

Two more Main Tour festivals take place back-to-back in April and May. First, the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown festival runs from April 3-23. Drawing 2,290 entries in the $3,500 Championship event this year, Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood now lays claim to nine of the top ten largest fields in WPT history.

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