Driving to Atlantic City across the expressway from Philadelphia, a magnificent skyline filled with casinos and hotels suddenly reveals itself as you approach. You're reaching the East Coast, the Atlantic Ocean and the edge of North America, but the coastline of "America's Playground" definitely feels more like a beginning than an end.
Here on the Northern end of the famed Atlantic City Boardwalk at Resorts Casino Hotel, the first ever legal casino opened up in Atlantic City in 1978, that's actually true. Today marks the beginning of the first ever PokerStars Festival, PokerStars' live event team's return to American soil for the first time in almost six years, and by all accounts, something special for poker in Atlantic City and beyond.