Day 1: Totally Borked It’s never fun when technical difficulties disrupt online poker tournaments, but sometimes, things don’t go your way. The world is an imperfect place. But when it happens multiple times over the course of a week, players can and will get restless. On Monday, GGPoker was forced to cancel the $5 million… Read more »
Poker tournament specialists love them some overlay. Who doesn’t, really? It’s can be tough to find online tourneys with overlay nowadays, as online poker rooms know what they are doing. But GGPoker’s GGMasters Overlay Edition, which wrapped up this week, was made for overlay. It is in the name, after all. And overlay it had,… Read more »
Holz a proponent of “pure” poker A week after announcing that he is joining GGPoker’s Poker Integrity Council (PIC), high stakes poker pro Fedor Holz revealed what his top initial priority will be. In a tweet on Tuesday, Holz said he wants to advance “the strict limitation of usage of mined data & MDA with… Read more »
On the heels of a breach of the site, top professional poker player Jason Koon has decided to not only leave the site that was sponsoring him but also to give up his position on what was supposed to be a game-changing organization. Koon, who is in the Top Ten on the all-time money list… Read more »
One man enters, one man exits High stakes poker pro Fedor Holz has announced that he has joined the Poker Integrity Council (PIC), created by GGPoker in 2022. At the same time, poker pro Jason Koon announced that he is no longer affiliated with GGPoker: Koon gave no further explanation as to why he left… Read more »
The GGMasters Overlay Edition returns to GGPoker this month, with two weekends of what has been a very lucrative tournament for players. As the name implies, GGPoker knows full well that there is a high probability that it will be stuck paying an overlay. It certainly was in both 2022 and 2023. Why would a… Read more »
Tough to miss Just before the turn of the new year, a new cheating scandal was unearthed by players at GGPoker. Fortunately, it did not appear to be widespread and did not last anywhere close to as long as the “superuser” sprees of over a decade and a half ago on UltimateBet and Absolute Poker,… Read more »
The 2023 World Series of Poker Paradise is underway in the Bahamas and, after a tentative start, the money has started to flow. Two events are in the books, which barely brought out enough players to crack the guarantees that were placed on the tournaments. That has changed with the first “big money” tournament of… Read more »
New, curious gold bracelet series We’re not sure exactly when they did it, but GGPoker and the WSOP quietly changed the structure terms of its much-hyped $5,000 WSOP Paradise Main Event in the Bahamas in December. Fortunately, David Lappin, a poker pro and host of “The Chip Race” podcast, wasn’t so quiet, pointing out late… Read more »
Coordinated stalling In a software update coming “sometime this month,” GGPoker implementing a change to its multi-table tournaments to try to stop max late registration abuse. Using this tactic, groups of players will buy-in to a tournament at the same time at the end of the late registration period. The way GGPoker’s software is currently… Read more »
If you thought activities for the World Series of Poker concluded with Daniel Weinman’s victory in July, you would be highly mistaken. Of course, there is the upcoming WSOP-Europe scheduled for October in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, but another event will start tomorrow that will draw poker players together. Sunday marks the start of the 2023… Read more »
GGPoker has revealed the schedule for the upcoming 2023 WSOP Online. Running August 20 to October 2, WSOP Online will offer 33 official gold bracelet events and $60 million in guaranteed prize pools. WSOP Online debuted in 2020, when the traditional, live World Series of Poker had to be canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic… Read more »
PokerStars has always been known for the biggest and best online poker tournament series, but now GGPoker wants to take its turn. On Wednesday, the world’s largest online poker room announced the inaugural GGPoker World Festival, billing it as the biggest series of all time, as it comes with $200 million in guaranteed prize pools.… Read more »
Poker got really expensive Just a couple weeks ago, a group of nearly 100 high stakes No-Limit Hold’em players initiated a boycott of GGPoker because the online poker drastically increased the rake at tables with blinds of $25/$50 and higher. Now it appears that the tactic worked, as GGPoker listened to players’ concerns and has… Read more »
Rock and roll and poker have long had a relationship with each other. Maybe it’s because they are both a bit off the beaten track – “outlaw,” so to speak – but it seems that they were made for each other. Now the online poker room GGPoker has enlisted one of the top hard rock… Read more »
We’re about two months away from the 2023 World Series of Poker and as such, online poker rooms have started ramping up their WSOP satellites. One of those poker sites is GGPoker, which has had a tight relationship with the WSOP for several years now. On Sunday, GGPoker launched its “Road to Vegas” promotion, during… Read more »
That’s some added value Daniel Negreanu can exhale. On Monday, the GGPoker GGMasters Overlay Edition concluded and while there was a gigantic overlay, Negreanu will not have to foot any of the bill. The $150 buy-in tournament drew 64,622 entries, which is fantastic. The problem – and GGPoker fully anticipated this, hence the name of… Read more »
Releasing the full schedule five months before the cards hit the air, the World Series of Poker is certainly vacuuming up the air in the poker community. On Thursday, WSOP and Caesars officials released the day-by-day schedule for this year’s festivities, which will run from May 30 to July 18. There is also going to… Read more »
Sounds like a lot overlay ahead GGPoker has revealed the details of the 2023 GGMasters Overlay Edition tournament, the second time the event will run. Scheduled to begin February 19, the tournament has a $10 million guarantee, but only a $150 price point. That guaranteed prize pool is double that of last year’s inaugural Overlay… Read more »
Not looking out for customers enough GGPoker has run afoul of the United Kingdom’s gambling regulator. On Wednesday, the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) announced that NSUS Limited, which trades as GGPoker, has been fined a hefty £672,829 ($746,340) for both social responsibility and anti-money laundering failures. When the UKGC hands out large fines, it is… Read more »
Millions still there for the taking The 2022 WSOP Online on GGPoker is down to the end, with just the $5,000 Main Event as the last bracelet event still to be completed. The tournament will play out its final table on Tuesday, as just nine players remain, all vying for the $2.8 million first prize.… Read more »
It was only about a month ago that the 2022 World Series of Poker concluded, but the fun is on once again, as the WSOP Online 2022 is underway at GGPoker. Running August 14 through September 27, WSOP Online will feature 33 official gold bracelet events with buy-ins ranging from $100 to $100,000. The first… Read more »
Just when you think that the season is done for the World Series of Poker, they come back into the game. The organization recently announced the schedule for the World Series of Poker Europe’s triumphant return, and they aren’t done with that. WSOP officials have now announced that they will be going online for two… Read more »
Short window for second chances GGPoker’s introduction of the Poker Integrity Council (PIC) a month ago has been generally well-received by the poker community. Cheating is a significant problem in poker and is about time for a concerted effort to not just root out cheaters, but punish them across the poker world, not just site… Read more »
It has been an issue in poker overall – and in online poker especially – for decades. How do you ensure that those who cheat in the game are punished fully for the transgressions that a person, a team, or a group has committed? Long there has been discussion about the subject, but not much… Read more »
