The ARIA is gearing-up to make this summer in Las Vegas a true classic. The poker room in the Strip casino will hold the ARIA Poker Classic, a month-and-a-half series that features mostly mid-stakes buy-ins for those both on the edge of poker greatness and those who already crossed the rubicon.
Running from May 27 to July 12, the series once again boils to a rumble with the $4 million guaranteed BetMGM Poker Championship. The $3,500 event starts June 29 and runs until July 4. Live satellites for this and all of the events will be held at the ARIA, but many people will qualify for the Championship online.
Let’s hear it straight from BetMGM:
Online players in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan can qualify for the BetMGM Poker Championship through a packed schedule of online satellites running through June 23. Two qualification paths are available to win a $3,500 Championship seat, hotel accommodations, and $500 cash, with entry points starting as low as $10.
- Championship qualifier: Players begin via $10 or $25 satellites, advancing to Championship qualifier finals with $100 or $250 buy-ins. Finals run weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays, with additional Sunday finals in June, awarding multiple guaranteed seats at each event.
- ARIA package: Daily step satellites starting at $5 and $50 feed into package finals held multiple times per week, awarding a full $7,200 ARIA package.
“Summer in Las Vegas is where the poker world convenes, and the BetMGM Poker Championship is the centerpiece for us,” said David Mileaf, BetMGM’s Director of Poker. “The partnership between BetMGM and MGM Resorts gives players access to venues and experiences that simply can’t be replicated. That’s the power of what we’ve built – a seamless road to the rail from your living room to Las Vegas.”
The whole series is a fun schedule of no-limit hold’em events combined with a nice enough mixed-game schedule to scratch most poker player’s tailbones. Badugi, H.O.R.S.E., T.O.R.S.E., 8-Game, Limit Hold’em, Omaha 8 or Better, and Stud 8 or Better, are some of the servings.
Buy-ins start at $300 with a bunch in the four-figure range, like the $1,100 BetMGM Pot-Limit Omaha event on June 13, which kicks-off the BetMGM portion and its line-up of six-figured guaranteed events.
The total prize pool guarantee of the series is just shy of $19 million. For more information, and room discounts, visit ARIA.
This is just one of several big-time series going on in Las Vegas alongside of the World Series of Poker.
The Wynn Summer Classic (May 20 to July 13) will also bring in the poker crowds with a healthy schedule of 100 that includes four events with guarantees of $2 million, $3 million, $5 million and $10 million for the series $10,400 championship on June 21.
And of course, the WSOP launches its nearly two-month oddesy May 26, rising the tide for every poker player to step foot in Las Vegas.
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