It’s fall and it’s football season. It’s time to figure out where we stored our favorite sweater, order something with a pumpkin flavor, and play a little online poker as we side-eye stores that already put up their December holiday displays.
BetMGM Poker has the perfect online poker series for the season. The Gridiron Classic is the ideal way to welcome the last quarter of the year while watching the game and avoiding the fantasy football group chat.
October’s Gridiron Classic at BetMGM Poker
For online poker players in New Jersey, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, the Gridiron Classic is offering a week of solid tournament action and big guarantees. Some events even award customized football jerseys to their winners!
The Gridiron Classic online poker tournament series begins on October 13 and wraps up on October 20. There will be more than $300,000 in guarantees across the board, and players will find three daily events that cater to a range of buy-in levels.
Gridiron Poker Tournament Schedule
The series schedule is the same for all three states with 30 events for each across the October 13-20 lineup. The difference is the guarantee assigned to each (in some cases) so check your individual schedule listing based on the state from which you log in.
The schedule of 30 events includes a range of buy-ins, from the nightly $20 buy-in Extra Point tournament to the $100 buy-in First Down. Most tournaments begin in the evening hours, which is convenient for recreational players with day jobs, and weekends provide more selection that begins in the afternoons. Visit the Gridiron Classic page when you log in to BetMGM Poker for all the details.
Custom Jersey Events
A consistent feature of the schedules in all three states is that every day boasts at least one tournament with the “custom jersey” designation. This means that the winner of that event not only receives the lion’s share of the prize pool but also a customized football jersey, complete with BetMGM colors and the winner’s screen name printed on it.
Of the Gridiron Classic schedule for each state, the featured events that will award those jerseys will be:
- Sunday, Oct. 13: $250 buy-in Coin Toss
- Sunday, Oct. 13: $20 buy-in Mini Coin Toss
- Sunday, Oct. 13: $500 buy-in Kickoff
- Monday, Oct. 14: $250 buy-in Flea Flicker
- Tuesday, Oct. 15: $500 buy-in Pick Six 6-Max
- Wednesday, Oct. 16: $100 buy-in 4th Down PLO
- Thursday, Oct. 17: $250 buy-in Halftime PKO
- Friday, Oct. 18: $250 buy-in Red Zone
- Saturday, Oct. 19: $100 buy-in Onside PLO PKO
- Sunday, Oct. 20: $250 buy-in 2-Minute Warning
- Sunday, Oct. 20: $20 buy-in Mini 2-Minute Warning
- Sunday, Oct. 20: $1,000 buy-in Touchdown
Those 12 opportunities to win a BetMGM Poker custom football jersey include two $20 buy-ins. The bigger buy-ins offer satellites so players of all poker bankrolls can qualify.
Undoubtedly, a lot of players want to compete for the jerseys. They’re much more practical than any traditional trophy, as evidenced by many of the BetMGM baseball jersey winners posting their personalized “trophies” after the summer series.
Gridiron Classic Pick-a-Card
There is another way to win entries into Gridiron Classic tournaments besides the usual qualifier methods. The Pick-a-Card promotion is back and already happening! It runs now through October 19, with daily opportunities to participate.
This promotion is all about BRPs, which are BetMGM Rewards Points. Players earn these points just for playing cash games and tournaments. Every time you pay rake to play, you earn points. And by playing during BetMGM Rewards Points Builder Power Hours from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., you earn double points.
Any and every day from now through October 19, simply earn 20 BRPs and you will find a special entry to the Pick-a-Card contest. You then pick a card that will be one of the following:
- $1,000 Gridiron Classic tournament ticket
- $100 Gridiron Classic qualifier ticket
- $10 Gridiron Classic qualifier ticket
- $2 Gridiron Classic qualifier ticket
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When you play legal poker online at BetMGM, you can participate in tournament series like the Gridiron Classic, as well as round-the-clock cash games and sit-n-gos. If you’re setting up a new account to get in on the action, claim a unique welcome poker bonus just for making your first deposit.
