Borgata Hotel, Casino and Spa is consistently rated as the top casino in Atlantic City, and with good reason. The accolades received by the brick and mortar establishment at times overshadow the substantial value to be found at Borgata Online Casino, which pays out big prizes by the barrel and offers exciting new promotions nearly every week.
Borgata has been by far the most lucrative online casino in New Jersey this year, based on the number of big prizes paid out. According to the NJ Department of Gaming Enforcement, a total of nine jackpots of $75,000 or more were paid out to NJ online gamblers in the first seven months of the year. Amazingly, seven of the nine have come at Borgata.
These figures include four huge wins over a period of six days in late May via a video poker game called Game King Bonus Poker. Three of the four wins were for $160,000, while one was $80,000.
The seven biggest Borgata wins of 2017, through the end of July, total $840,488.
While most will never know the thrill of winning a six-figure prize, smaller yet significant jackpots are being paid out regularly, even to patrons playing for low stakes.
Here’s a look at some of Borgata’s lucky online winners over the past month and the games that have paid off handsomely.
During the final week of July, Jersey City resident Anthony placed a $10 bet on the Double Diamond slot game, which promptly awarded a hefty $10,000 prize. Double Diamond is a no-frills, one-payline slot, and a rarity compared with the complex modern slots which are so popular in online casinos today. The game is a snap to learn and will be instantly familiar to those accustomed to the old school “fruit machine” style slots which featured the iconic Cherries, Bars and 7s symbols. The top prize of 1,000X is paid out when three Double Diamond symbols hit the reels.
The following week, two players celebrated five-figure scores, while another took home a respectable $5,262 payout. On July 30, Barbara from Cedar Grove placed a $4 bet on the Raging Rhino slot, and was rewarded with a $14,755 jackpot. The African-themed game features a 4096 Ways to Win structure in which matching symbols need only appear on adjacent reels. The Tree symbol is the Wild, while the Diamond symbol serves as the Scatter, triggering up to 50 free spins when three or more appear on the reels.
Eclipsing that win was Nyla from Newark, who placed her own for $4 bet on the Cleopatra Plus slot and banked a $15,038 payout. This seductive game is comprised of 40 paylines and features the unique Bonus Maps Awards, which lavishes free spins and multipliers depending on the game level you achieve. The higher you climb, the more attractive the rewards you will receive.
On August 6, Sharon from Pleasant Point scored a $4,500 win after making a $5.28 bet on 88 Fortunes, while Kunsik from Palisades Park turned a $2 bet into $3,500 on the Yahtzee slot just two days later. The big winner of the week, however, was Chesterfield resident Michael, who hit a $7,596 jackpot on a $3.75 spin on Spartacus Call to Arms. Battle your way to victory in this 50-line game, which boasts a free spins bonus and a special reel set which can turn losing spins into winners by transferring Wilds onto the base game reels.
August 19 was clearly a lucky day at Borgata, as three patrons banked payouts of several thousand dollars each. Cleopatra Plus was the first to hit, paying out $3,045 on a Newfield woman’s $4 bet. Following that, a Harrison resident banked a $3,011 jackpot on 100,000 Pyramid after placing just a $0.45 bet. The last big winner reaped his reward at the video poker machines, walking away with a $4,000 payday on the classic Game King Double Double Bonus Poker game.
The biggest slots jackpot award of the year so far was $271,268, which was won just last week by a woman named Susan on Golden Nugget Casino. That jackpot passed the previous 2017 highs of $197,139, won just weeks earlier by Kim S. via the Wonderland slot at Tropicana Online Casino, and two $200k+ jackpots won earlier this month at Golden Nugget.
Both of these massive wins will look puny compared to the next big hit on Borgata, however, as their main progressive jackpot is currently sitting at over $2.1 million. Take your pick of six slots, all connected to the bloated Big Series jackpot, including Loot’enkhamun and Going Nuts, for your shot at a seven-figure score. While small wins might be more realistic, the possibility of a life-changing payout is too enticing to ignore.