Where to Play Poker and Win in Atlantic City

Top Rated Poker Rooms in Atlantic City, NJ

Atlantic City has some of the best poker rooms in United States, below is our Best Of list, enjoy it .  Professional Poker Players like Phil Ivey, Cindy Violette and many others play in Atlantic City on regular basis, they prefer the Taj Mahal as their home base.  Don’t forget that AC hosts several poker tournaments a year, including the WSP Circuit Events and many many more. Below is the Top Ranked Atlantic City Poker Rooms as rated by Crusty the Clown a local and online professional.

The game of poker has been around since the Wild Wild West, now at an all-time high in popularity with the extensive TV exposure the World Series of Poker and the WPT gets annually. The emergence of “Texas Hold-em” has fueled the poker world and allowed the game to become wildly popular around the world. Adding to that is the fact the amateur after amateur seems to be able to win high-stakes poker games and even the World Series. Since there is in fact, allot of luck involved, if you learn the rules of the game, you have a chance to win and win big.

If your heading to Atlantic City and have the feeling like you want to play poker, our Best of list will help you decide where you want play and win, good luck! ..

1. Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa – Great layout, plenty of action, clean and new.  The most upscale poker experience in town.

# of Poker Tables – 88
Buy-Ins – $30+$10 – $1000+$60

Tables run for 24 hours and there are several different types of tourneys to play. Borgata features daily sit and go’s and multi table tournamnets of all sizes, if you want it, Borgata has it! LCD TV’s are strategically placed all over the room to keep you up to date. Borgata Casino Atlantic City

2. Taj Mahal Atlantic City – Featured in the Movie Rounders, massive in size, variety of games, professionals prefer to play here.

*Voted “Poker Room” by the readers of casino player magazine.

Number of Tables – 100 +
Buy-Ins – $48 + $12 – $200+$40

Monday-Thursday at 12:15 pm & 6:15 p.m.: $80 + $20 buy-in No-limit Texas Hold’em

Friday-Sunday at 10:15 am: $80 + $20 buy-in No-limit Texas Hold’em

Friday at 3:15 pm: $80 + $20 buy-in Omaha hi/lo

Friday at 6:15 pm: $200 + $25 buy-in No-limit Texas Hold’em

Saturday & Sunday at 6:15: $300 + $30 buy-in No-limit Texas Hold’em

There are all levels of games to choose from, if you’re a high dollar player you may choose to play No Limit, or if you’re a beginner, mayb $1, $2 and have some fun.  The Taj Mahal is the players choice of AC Poker Rooms and is open 24 hrs per day, 7 days a week, have fun.

3. Tropicana Casino Atlantic City

Number of Tables – 35
Buy-Ins – $40+$12 – $100+$22

Offering a number of different tournaments, the Tropicana Poker Club is a full service poker facility that even offers a substantial monetary reward to bad hands. The Tropicana “bad beat” tournament is available to everyone who has already participated in a Texas Hold-em event.  There are several local Atlantic City Hotels nearby if the rates are too high to stay over night.

4. Caesars Atlantic City Casino

# of Poker Tables – 25
Buy-Ins – $85 + $15 – $300 + $25

Caesars Atlantic City is not quite as big as some of the other casinos but they offer something most of the others don’t; Texas Hold-em $1-2 No Limit, $2-5 No Limit and $5-10 No Limit games. Structured games start at $2-4, $3-6 and $4-8. Higher limit games are also available based on demand.

5. Bally’s Atlantic City

# of Poker Tables – 22
Buy-Ins – $40 + $10 – $100 + $20

Bally’s Casino Poker Room features a Bad Beat Jackpot, you can also win additional money if you hit Four of a Kind, A Royal Flush or a Strait Flush which makes it fun.  You actually have 2 poker rooms to choose from in Bally’s, one is in the Wild West Section.

6. Showboat The Mardi Gras Casino & House of Blues

# of Poker Table – 27
Buy-Ins – $53 + $12 – $85 + $15

The Showboat Poker Room is actually located in the House of Blues Tower at the top of escalater to the right, plenty of plasma TV’s great beverage service and access to full bar.

7. Harrah’s Atlantic City

# of Poker Tables – 45
Buy-Ins – $58 + $12 – $175+$25

With every type of poker game available for action around the clock, you will always be able to find a game running. Hosts WSP and WPT Circuit Events all year long.  Enter to win a chance to play in the World Series of Poker. Harrah’s Atlantic City easy to get in and get out, you’ll have fun and maybe take down a few big pots.

Atlantic City Hilton

Number of Tables – 22
Buy-Ins – Varies with interest and day…

Hilton hosts the New Jersey State Poker Open every year, the new poker room offers many different games, go and win some money, plenty of fish in the sea.