Whether you want to savor the last week of 2025 or usher it right out the door, Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City is partnering with BetMGM Poker to offer one big year-end live tournament. The online qualifiers can get you into the action for a fraction of the buy-in, and the mystery bounty format of the live event – not to mention $25,000 in BetMGM bonuses – will keep you busy pursuing the last major event on the East Coast this year.
Pure Grind Series: Minor Mystery Bounty
Borgata Poker regularly runs its Pure Grind Series throughout the year, offering a variety of multi-day tournaments with big guarantees. This one, however, is a little different, full of Christmas bonuses and general holiday cheer.
The Pure Grind Minor Mystery Bounty BetMGM Poker Bonus Edition is a long name for a “minor” tournament. There will be six flights for the $350 buy-in tournament and a massive $250,000 guarantee.
Mystery Bounty Schedule
The six flights are scheduled out across a long weekend just after Christmas.
- Friday, Dec 26: Day 1A at 11:15 a.m. & Day 1B at 5:15 p.m.
- Saturday, Dec 27: Day 1C at 11:15 a.m. & Day 1D at 5:15 p.m.
- Sunday, Dec 28: Day 1E at 11:15 a.m. & Day 1F at 5:15 p.m.
There will be unlimited reentries available, and all players who bag chips at the end of a flight move on to Day 2 guaranteed a payout. (Players can enter multiple flights and move their best stack forward.) Day 2 will be on Monday, December 29, which is also when the bounty portion of the tournament begins.
For a full breakdown of the structure of this event, check the Borgata Poker page.
BetMGM Poker Bonuses
The holiday spirit is in the air at BetMGM, and they’re bringing it right over to Borgata for the bounty portion of the Pure Grind Minor Mystery Bounty event.
From every buy-in, the bounty pool will take $75, from which the bounties will be created. They will mirror approximately 25% of the normal payouts, all of which will be determined when registration closes. On top of that, BetMGM Poker is adding more than $25,000 in additional bounty prizes. A random value of $10 to $3,500 will be added to each bounty. That bonus money can then be used for online tournaments, qualifiers, or for any Borgata Winter Poker Open event in January.
Warm Up Your Poker Game on BetMGM
To prepare for the Pure Grind, there’s no better place than online at BetMGM Poker. There are tournaments of all types at all price points, which means it doesn’t have to cost a lot to play real-money poker at BetMGM. And once you create an account and get the feel for online poker – and use the online poker welcome bonus to get going – you can build up your bankroll through the holidays and prepare for an amazing new year of poker.
