Let’s be honest. There are many poker tournaments, but there is nothing quite like East Coast live poker. And Borgata has worked for decades to make it the absolute best, catering to players’ requests and suggestions, always adjusting and improving. It’s why players demand four Borgata Poker Open editions each year. That means it’s time for another one.

The Borgata Summer Poker Open, powered by BetMGM Poker, is on tap for July, with the full BSPO schedule here and full collection of BSPO structure sheets here. But since that is quite a lot of information, we’ll break it down into digestible highlights and give you the information you need about Borgata qualifiers and prize packages available now on BetMGM Poker.

2026 Borgata Summer Poker Open in Atlantic City, NJ

This year, Borgata released its Summer Poker Open dates at the beginning of the year. But since the full schedule offers 50 events in total, we’ll break it down a bit here.

• Dates:  July 16 – 31, 2026
• Total tournaments, including satellites:  50
• Total guarantees:  More than $4,000,000

Borgata Summer Poker Open Schedule Highlights

The tournaments that players have come to expect will be a part of this series, of course. It will kick off with the Kick Off and feature favorites like the Almighty Stack, Mirror Mystery Bounty, and more. Some of those highlights will be:

• • July 16-20 (Event 1):  $600 buy-in Deep Stack Kick Off (6 flights, $1,000,000 guaranteed)
  • July 20-21 (Event 8):  $650 buy-in PLO Championship (2 flights, $75,000 guaranteed)
  • July 21-24 (Event 11):  $650 buy-in Super Deep 6-Max (4 flights, $200,000 guaranteed)
  • July 23-27 (Event 16):  $500 buy-in Borgata Almighty Stack (6 flights, $750,000 guaranteed)
  • July 26-31 (Event 22):  $2,700 buy-in Summer Poker Open Championship (3 flights, $1,000,000 guaranteed)
  • July 27 (Event 25):  $160 buy-in BetMGM Poker Bounty Ladder Shootout (Championship seat for winner, $10,000 guaranteed)
  • July 29-31 (Event 27):  $580 buy-in Monster Mirror Mystery Bounty (4 flights, $250,000 guaranteed)

Livestreams on BetMGM YouTube Channel

The live section of the BetMGM YouTube channel will be on fire during the Borgata Summer Poker Open, complete with four cash game streams and numerous live final tables. While there may be additions to this schedule, it currently shows:

• July 20 (noon):  Deep Stack Kick Off (Event 1) final table
• July 21 (time tbd):  PLO cash game
• July 22 (time tbd): RAF’s Game
• July 23 (time tbd):  Borgata Big Game 
• July 24 (noon):  Super Deep 6-Max (Event 11) final table
• July 25 (time tbd):  Signature $2/$5 cash game
• July 27 (noon):  Almighty Stack (Event 16) final table
• July 29 (noon):  Championship (Event 22) feature table
• July 30 (noon):  Championship (Event 22) feature table
• July 31 (noon):  Championship (Event 22) final table

Stay tuned for more information on the cash game start times, or check with the Borgata poker room (or Borgata Poker X account) for details as the dates approach.

How to Qualify Through Satellites

There are many ways to win your seats — even complete prize packages that include cash for incidentals — to Borgata Poker Open events. Why pay the full buy-ins before you try to win your seats at a discount?

Qualifiers Online at BetMGM Poker

As always, BetMGM Poker is offering many qualifiers to the largest events at the Borgata Summer Poker Open. And all of the seats come with cash to help with gas or other transportation, meals, and accommodations. And these qualifiers start at just $10!

• $10 Borgata Bounty Shootout qualifier (July 26) to win $160 seat and $50 cash
• $50 Kick Off, PLO, Almighty, and Mystery Bounty qualifiers (July 14-29) to win seats and $50 cash
• $250 Championship qualifiers (July 6-28) to win $2,700 seats and $500 cash

Check the BetMGM Poker lobby online for times and added qualifiers.

Live Satellites at Borgata

There are quite a few qualifiers running in Borgata’s poker room. Some are even listed as events on the official Summer Poker Open schedule.

• $500 Borgata Big 4 satellite to win seats to Events 1, 11, 16, and 22 (5 packages guaranteed)
• $220 Out the Gate satellite to win seats to Events 1, 11, and 16 (5 packages guaranteed)
• $560 $5K Your Way 1-in-10 satellite to win $5K in buy-ins ($15,000 guaranteed)
• $320 MEGA Championship 1-in-10 satellite to win Championship seat (10 seats guaranteed)
• $320 Championship 1-in-10 satellite to win Championship seat (5 seats guaranteed)

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