Biggest Buy In Tournament Ever in Atlantic City!

This past weekend, Atlantic City hosted their biggest $5,000 buy in tournament ever!  This tournament is being hosted at the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa, where you can expect nothing but the best being owned and ran together by the MGM Mirage MGM and the Boyd Gaming Corp. BYD.

The total payouts reaching over 1,685,000 dollars with 337 entrants! For the $5,000 buy-in, each player received 50,000 in chips! This tournament brought players from all over to the bright lights of Atlantic City! Many players that were in Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker even flew back to be a part of this money making history!

On day two of the tournament, there were still 253 skilled poker players in the running for the money. By the end of that day, only 88 entrants were still in. The game continued on day 3 and narrowed the field down to final table for day four.

Final table on day 4 started at 11 in the morning with Dajuan Whorley taking the chip lead having over $3,553,000 in chips! This table was full of aggressive pros with little room for luck, to have a chance at this table you needed a whole lot of skill! Balint Barta of Clifton NJ took the majority of the pot for first place winning nearly $520,000!

.