Amid a slew of New Year tournament series to take part in, the Borgata Winter Poker Open ticks all the boxes. East Coast fun? Check. $10 million in guarantees? You bet. Five poker stars to invest your money in and watch for them to crush? Absolutely. With events continuing through to January 26th, the New Year is the perfect time to stake some poker talent and enjoy the festival without even needing to see a single flop yourself.
Raise It Up with Ryan DePaulo
Ryan DePaulo is a massive talent and in 2024, he could start making you money right away. The Borgata Winter Open may be offering $10m in guarantees, but the lower buy-in events are just as ripe for value and DePaulo is an expert at making anyone below professional level pay for every decision they make at the felt. Sure, the 20th event of the Borgata Winter Poker Open is the Championship Event with $3,000,000 guaranteed, costing $5,300 to play. But DePaulo will be a threat in all the events either side, including those $500-$1,000 buy-in big-field events.
Here’s how DePaulo won a comparative entry-level tournament in 2023:
DePaulo isn’t just ‘that guy who won a WSOP bracelet in a Walmart car park’, although he does officially list himself as a “Parking Lot WSOP Bracelet Winner 2020, ACR Poker Team Pro and a professional idiot” on X, formerly known as Twitter. He’s taking his many poker fans on a journey and with over 110,000 subscribers on YouTube, he’s got an army of them behind him.
Ladies Night in Atlantic City?
There are some absolutely superb female players taking on their rivals at the poker felt in 2024 and two of the best in the business are playing at the Borgata Winter Poker Open. Long-time presenter but killer at the felt Tiffany Michelle documented her hilarious/tragic arrival on the East Coast via Poker.Org and one of the most entertaining mini vlogs of the year to date.
4am alarm is sh*t
First Class is sh*t
Dry January is sh*t
And @BorgataPoker is THE sh*tDoes that mean this poker VLOG is… sh*t??? ?
? @tiffnymichelle pic.twitter.com/1fvLzokCoO
— Poker Org (@pokerorg) January 5, 2024
Michelle will be no pushover at the felt and is selling a whole raft of her action at no mark-up whatsoever. Another lady who has crushed in recent years is Cherish Andrews. The Global Poker Award winner for best female player loves a last-longer, as she demonstrated in Las Vegas last year at the World Series of Poker… although she might choose not to organise the next one!
Never running a LL ever again. I’m always the first one out ?? enjoy my $500 you bitches
— Cherish Autumn Andrews (@CherishAndrews) June 29, 2023
Both Michelle and Andrews are serious threats and behind their pitch-perfect social media channels, two very determined and highly experienced players lurk looking to make it a Ladies Night at the Borgata Winter Poker Open to kick off the year in style.
Chris Tryba and Joey Gargiulo
Two other players well worth backing are putting very different packages up for grabs on the official PokerStake Borgata Winter Poker Open staking page. Chris Tryba has won over $2.5 million in live tournaments alone in his glittering poker career and is selling action to Events #10 and #20, which have buy-ins of $2,200 and $5,300 respectively. Selling at 1.10 mark-up, Tryba is excellent value, and a year ago banked a very healthy profit of over $21,000 in the $3,500-entry Lucky Hearts Poker Open in Hollywood, as well as coming 12th in a turbo event at the same series just two days earlier. Stamina and skill? Try Tryba.
Just 18 months ago, Joey Gargiulo was busy winning $48,000 for coming 10th in the WPT Choctaw Event in Durant and the man from Port Charlotte in Florida could be a big threat in one event this Borgata Winter Poker Open. Selling only to the Main Event Championship at 1.11, Gargiulo nevertheless represents excellent and has won on the Run Good Poker Series before too. Get in while you can.
With a raft of events and 10 million in guarantees you can grab your piece of the action at the Borgata without leaving the comfort of your own home.
