BetMGM’s Online Diamond Poker Championship Series: There’s Still Time

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As temperatures drop, poker’s busy season outside of summer is heating up. Live tournament action is spanning the country in November, from the WPT World Championship at the Wynn Las Vegas to the Borgata Fall Poker Open in New Jersey. But the action isn’t limited to live play on a physical felt.

BetMGM’s online Diamond Championship Series is still underway, giving players in Michigan, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania time to get in on the action with 25 events still to play. The series featured 86 tournaments with more than $3.1 million in guarantees.

“Diamond Season is a great way to close out the first full year of BetMGM Poker’s seasonal format,” BetMGM Poker Ambassador Darren Elias told Casinos.com. “As a player, you want meaningful tournaments on the calendar, and this is a strong way to finish the year. Personally, I enjoy competing in the High Roller Events during the series.”

Here’s the remaining schedule:

The Four Seasons of Poker

In its first year, BetMGM Poker introduced a four-season tournament format, with the Spade, Heart, and Club seasons rolling out earlier in the year before the Diamond Season brings the series to a close in the fall.

The series kicked off Oct. 18 with a freeroll event and runs through Nov. 2, with guaranteed prize pools now ranging from $10,000 for the No Limit ‘Em Omaha (NLO) PKO Turbo on October 30 up to $300,000 for the $1,000 Championship event (event 79 on Nov. 1), which has unlimited rebuys up until the end of level 18. Buy-ins range from $50 for a six-max event to $1,000 for the championship event.

There are also opportunities at satellites for every event in the tournament, with some as low as $1.

A six-max poker game is a variant where instead of nine or even 10 players at a table, six is the maximum number of players allowed. This can force players to take more action as the blinds move around the table more quickly. A player’s position, level of aggressiveness, and bluffing ability are especially important in this style of play.

A NLO PKO Turbo is a variant of Omaha poker that combines a progressive knockout (PKO) bounty format with a fast-paced tournament structure. The buy-in is split between two pools: the regular prize pool and the bounty pool. When a player eliminates an opponent, they receive half of that player’s bounty as an immediate cash reward, while the other half is added to their own bounty. The more opponents a player eliminates, the larger the bounty on their head becomes. The turbo structure keeps the event fast and shorter than a regular one.

Leaderboard Race Offers $15,000 in Cash

An added bonus to this tournament series includes a series leaderboard, awarding points to players who cash in any of the 86 events. The top ten finishers with the most points will share a $15,000 prize pool, with $5,000 going to first place and $250 to tenth place.

Player leaderboards have become a popular and successful way for poker tournaments to add another layer of excitement, giving players an additional incentive to compete while tracking their progress throughout the series.

The weather may be cooling down, but a guaranteed $300,000 prize pool for just one event would be sure to bring the heat this holiday season.

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