Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa
Borgata's 161,000-square-foot floor has long led Atlantic City in casino win, and it's where you'll find Wheel of Fortune Trio's three linked machines alongside All Star Poker III and Kong Skull Island.
Borgata's casino floor has long been the biggest earner in Atlantic City, and the numbers behind that reputation are sizable: a 161,000-square-foot gaming floor, roughly 4,000 slot machines, 180 table games, and 50 poker tables, inside a resort that's among the largest hotels in New Jersey. It opened in July 2003 as a joint venture between MGM Mirage and Boyd Gaming, aiming to bring a Las Vegas-style property to the Atlantic City boardwalk district at a time when the market was still dominated by older, smaller casinos, and both the scale and the polish still show more than two decades later. Here's what's on the floor, what the room feels like, and what to know before you play.
Notable Games on the Floor
Borgata's own materials point to a small set of standout titles: Wheel of Fortune Trio, which links three machines together rather than running as a single stand-alone cabinet; All Star Poker III; and Kong Skull Island. It's a shorter confirmed list than some other big-floor casinos this size would suggest, but each of the three is a title Borgata itself calls out as part of its current slot lineup, rather than a generic or unverified name -- worth knowing if you're specifically hunting for one of them rather than browsing the wider floor. Given the property runs roughly 4,000 machines in total, these three represent a small, verified slice of a much larger and constantly rotating inventory rather than the whole picture.
Table Games, Roulette, and the Poker Room
The 180-table floor includes 14 roulette tables, among them video roulette machines that use the player-favorable Le Partage rule -- a detail serious roulette players will recognize as meaningfully better odds than the standard American double-zero game found at most other tables. The poker room is the property's biggest table-games claim to fame: expanded during a 2005-2006 renovation that added a new wing in June 2006, it became the largest poker room in Atlantic City and the second-largest in the country, seating roughly 50 tables and hosting World Poker Tour events with weekly tournament buy-ins ranging from $30 up to $1,000, a spread wide enough to cover both casual players and serious tournament regulars in the same room.
Layout, Decor, and Atmosphere
Reviewers describe the floor as bright, 'smart and clean,' with 'grand modern styling' rather than the darker, older look of some competing Atlantic City casinos -- a distinction that lines up with Borgata's original goal of bringing a Las Vegas-caliber property to the boardwalk when it opened in 2003, rather than following the older-school Atlantic City house style. The roulette pit in particular gets called out for a 'buzzy' atmosphere, and croupiers are described as 'very professional,' delivering what one review called 'great hospitality' and service 'a cut above' other casinos visited, which tracks with a property that's spent much of the last two decades as the market's top earner. Smoking is permitted but kept to segregated areas of the floor -- though at least one review noted that visitors can still come away smelling like smoke, even with the sections split apart, so it's not a fully smoke-free experience even in the non-designated areas.
History and Architecture
Borgata opened in July 2003 as a joint venture between MGM Mirage and Boyd Gaming, designed by Marnell Corrao Associates of Las Vegas alongside Philadelphia firm Bower Lewis Thrower -- a pairing of a Vegas-focused design firm with a regional East Coast one that reflects the property's stated goal of bringing Strip-level design sensibility to the New Jersey market. Its main tower rises 431 feet with a reflective gold-glass facade visible from miles away -- it was the third-tallest building in Atlantic City when it was completed -- built around a Tuscan-influenced, modernist theme meant to set it apart from the boardwalk's older casino architecture, most of which leaned on more traditional Atlantic City design language. A $200 million casino and retail expansion followed in late 2005 into 2006, opening a new wing that June and enlarging the poker room in the process, a sign the property was already outgrowing its original footprint within just a few years of opening. A second hotel tower, originally called The Water Club and later renamed MGM Tower, opened in June 2008 as an $800 million-plus, 800-room boutique addition with its own two-story spa, effectively doubling down on the resort's high-end positioning even as the broader Atlantic City market began to soften. Borgata has also been the site of real gambling history: in 2009, player Patricia Demauro set a widely cited craps record, rolling the dice 154 consecutive times without sevening out, a streak that lasted four hours and 18 minutes and remains one of the most-referenced runs in modern casino lore. The property is now owned by Vici Properties and operated by MGM Resorts International -- a different ownership structure than the MGM Mirage/Boyd Gaming partnership that originally built it.
What to Know Before You Play
Borgata's poker room is the draw if tournament play is your priority -- weekly buy-ins from $30 to $1,000 mean there's usually an entry point regardless of bankroll, and the room's size and World Poker Tour history mean it's rarely short on action. Roulette players specifically should look for the video roulette machines running the Le Partage rule, since it meaningfully improves the house edge compared to standard double-zero tables elsewhere on the floor, and it's worth asking staff where those machines are located since they're not the default game at every table. If secondhand smoke matters to you, note that smoking is permitted but kept to segregated sections rather than banned outright, so it's worth confirming which area you're in before settling in for a long session. And if you're standing in front of a machine or table and want a quick, specific read on it before you commit money, photographing it and asking 6-lab's Advisor beats trying to recall the rules from memory.
Notable games on the floor
- Wheel of Fortune Trio
- All Star Poker III
- Kong Skull Island
Good to know
- Borgata is among the largest hotels in New Jersey.
- The resort has a 161,000-square-foot casino floor and has been reported as the top-grossing casino in Atlantic City.
- The casino floor carries roughly 4,000 slot machines, 180 table games, and 50 poker tables.
- The poker room, expanded in a 2005-2006 renovation, became the largest in Atlantic City and the second-largest in the country, hosting World Poker Tour events with weekly tournament buy-ins from $30 to $1,000.
- Reviewers describe the floor as 'bright... smart and clean' with 'grand modern styling,' the roulette pit as having a 'buzzy' atmosphere, and the croupiers as 'very professional,' offering 'great hospitality' and service 'a cut above' other casinos visited.
- The casino runs 14 roulette tables, including video roulette using the player-favorable Le Partage rule, as part of a 180-table floor with around 3,000 slot machines.
- Smoking is permitted in segregated areas of the floor, though one review noted visitors can still leave smelling of smoke.
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