The last few weeks there have been articles written about the decline of online poker traffic in the state of New Jersey. However, things are about to change as PartyPoker announced the launch of the first ever New Jersey Championship of Online Poker (NJCOP) which will feature on BorgataPoker.com and NJ.partypoker.com.
This online event is scheduled to take place along with the partypoker WPT World Championship live tournament that will be held at the Borgata during the 21st -26th of April. This online event is sure to gain the extra attention and will draw additional players whom will WPT World Championship. The NJCOP will have 16 special tournaments and total guaranteed prize money of $600,000.
Mike Sexton, Team partypoker captain said
If you love poker then you need to be in New Jersey come April 19. The online poker action in New Jersey has been red hot since day one and the New Jersey Championship of Online Poker will be the ultimate test for pros and amateurs alike. What’s more if you are coming from out of town to play the partypoker WPT World Championship at Borgata it is timed so you can make the most of the live and online games!
The Main Event at the NJCOP will be a $200,000 guaranteed $200 buy-in deepstack freezeout that will take place on Sunday 27th April and has 50,000 guaranteed to the eventual winner. Players who are interested to enter the NJCOP will be able to do so long before the tournament commences.
Starting from the 17th of March, NJ.partypoker.com will host qualifiers for all 15 NJCOP tournaments and they will only have to pay $1.
Team partypoker member Jamie Kerstetter who is a native from Monroe said
It’s so exciting to have the partypoker WPT World Championship coming to Atlantic City and to have the New Jersey Championship of Online Poker coinciding with it. New Jersey really is the place to play big online and offline events in April and is a trailblazer for poker in the United States. What’s even better is that it kicks off with a $50k freeroll and the value you get from that if you make the final table of that is amazing as you win entries into all of the other events worth $2,000.
Those players who are interested in checking out the entire NJCOP Schedule, can do so by visiting http://nj.partypoker.com
