BetRivers Poker will run a 15-day Multi-State Summer Series from Aug. 2 to Aug. 16, with 96 championship events and more than $450,000 in guaranteed prize pools. The festival is open to registered players in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Michigan and Delaware.
Players will be able to buy in directly or qualify through daily satellites. The schedule spans deepstack, progressive knockout, six-max, hyper turbo, PLO and weekend-major events, and the Main Event is set for Aug. 16 with a $200 buy-in and a $35,000 guarantee.
PokerNews reported that the leaderboards will add more than $10,000 in tournament-ticket prizes. The Gold and Silver boards use a best-five-results system, so players can miss events and still remain in contention; the top 20 on Gold and the top 25 on Silver will be paid.
Pokerfuse said the structure includes up to eight events a day across Silver and Gold buy-in brackets, with lower-entry tournaments starting at $3 and higher-entry events topping out at $200. It also noted that BetRivers has been running a Road to the Multi-State Summer Series promotion that gives away $10,000 in tournament tickets in weekly draws.
For context, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board said Governor Josh Shapiro signed the state’s MSIGA agreement on April 23, 2025. The board said Pennsylvania joined New Jersey, Nevada, Delaware, West Virginia and Michigan in the compact, and that the move expanded the online poker player pool by more than 50% for an estimated 150,000 players in the state.
