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GGPoker Review: Traffic, Games, Software & Promotions

The GGNetwork launched in 2014, and GGPoker—its flagship room—followed in 2017, quickly becoming one of the most feature-rich platforms in online poker. Being a site on the GG (Good Game) Network — also home to sister site Natural8 — GGPoker has a primarily European and Asian player base. One of the most noticeable aspects of the GGPoker is how it tries to make playing online poker feel more like a fun video game experience. On September 7, 2025, the counter in the client showed record-breaking 600,000+ players online.

The whole site interface is geared towards making recreational players feel right at home. The lobby and tables are brilliantly designed and offer fun features like rabbit hunting, run-it-twice options and animated player taunts. Best of all for the casual player, third party software has been banned, and the playing field has been levelled with access to a single basic HUD to deter grinders from cleaning up. Third party HUDs and tracking software are not permitted on GG.

It's great to see innovation in online poker and GGPoker has some really smart features that you can’t find on any other poker network. All-in insurance to protect against bad beats and allowing players to stake each other in tournaments are great additions that give players more control over the action. GGPoker is a Hold’em and Omaha focused poker site, but they offer a broad range of playing formats such as Randomised Sit & Gos, All-in or Fold, and 6+ Short Deck as well as fast cash games, and a plethora of tournament series including: GGMasters, Multi Millions and Bounty Hunters.

Promotions are plentiful, with Sit & Go leaderboards, rake races, freeroll tournaments, and a great 100% first deposit sign up bonus. Players can play on desktop or mobile clients and GGPoker is available for both Android and iOS operating systems.

Games Available

Cash Games

Hold'em is spread from $0.01/$0.02 to $10/$20 and Omaha up until $10/$20. Even higher stakes are available in the VIP Games tab with tables of various formats up to NL1000, Omaha up to $40,000. PLO5 up to $20,000; PLO6 up to $10,000. Besides the classic online 6-max, 9-max tables with antes are also available.

Rush & Cash (Fast-fold)

Rush & Cash is a variant that eliminates the wait between hands by immediately sending players to another table the moment they fold their hand. This makes it by far the most immersive form of poker as the action never stops. So if you find regular MTTs too long for your schedule, load up a Rush and Cash table and jump straight into the action.

The highest limit is for 6-max $1/$2. Rush & Cash features random splash pot bonuses. On Fridays, cash drops in fast poker can double up to 1,200BB, if there is an ambassador, influencer, or player with a colored nickname at the table.

Spin & Gold

If long form MTTs aren’t your thing, Spin & Gold shootouts are the most exciting way to get that poker hit in the shortest time possible. These fast paced tournaments pit three players against each other for a randomised prize that could be up to 200,000 times a buy-in with a maximum jackpot of $1,000,000. Players can win up to $1,000,000 with just a $5 buy-in. Chips are scarce and the blinds go up every 3 minutes so play is fast and furious.

Tables are spread for $0.25, $1, $3, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 and $200 buy-ins. There’s an option to play with optional Insurance add-on (priced roughly around the buy-in). If the game starts with the minimum prize multiplier, Insurance refunds your buy-in — effectively making that Spin & Gold free on the lowest multiplier (x2 in 3-max; x4 in 6-max).

All-in or Fold

This game type is a fast and furious all-in fest where players start with 8 big blinds and try to shove their way to victory. You can only go all-in or fold, so expect to gamble a bit. Hold'em tables run up to $50/$100 and Omaha — up to $100/200.

6+ Hold’em (Short Deck)

Every few years another poker innovation comes along to shake things up, the latest of which is Short Deck Hold’em. In this game cards 2-5 are discarded and the game is played as if they don’t exist. Flushes beat full houses and A-6-7-8-9 makes a straight. If it sounds confusing make sure to practice on the free money tables before jumping into the real thing. The game is becoming more popular all the time so it’s worth checking out.

Multi-table Tournaments (MTTs)

GGPoker hosts a variety of high quality tournaments daily with affordable buy-ins from $1 all the way up to super high roller buy-ins. Games run around the clock, with million-dollar guaranteed tournaments every week.

Like most poker sites all of the biggest tournaments are to be found on Sundays when all action doubles with increased buy-ins and guarantees. The biggest Sunday tournaments are the GG Masters and MILLION$ series held every Sunday. These include:

• T$ Builder from $0.25 with prizes in the form of tournament dollars
• GGMasters Buy-in $150 ($1,000,000 guaranteed)
• GGMasters Bounty Buy-in $320 ($400,000 guaranteed)
• GGMasters High Rollers Buy-in $1,050 ($750,000 guaranteed)
• Global MILLION$ Buy-in $50 ($1,000,000 guaranteed)
• Omaholic Bounty Quarter MILLION$ Buy-in $52.50 ($250,000 guaranteed)
• GGMillions$ High Rollers Buy-in $10,300 ($1,500,000 guaranteed)

Registration process

To open a GGPoker account, you can start either on the official website or directly inside the desktop/mobile app that you can download from their website. In both cases, the signup flow begins with creating a GGPass login — enter your email address and password, then confirm your email via a verification code.

After that, you may be asked to set a nickname (GGPass ID) and complete the required profile fields. Depending on your country, this can include name, date of birth, and contact details (address/phone), plus accepting the Terms. 

We recommend registering via our link — it’s the easiest way to make sure your account is eligible for occasional freerolls and other promos we run for readers. Also note that GGPoker only allows one account per player, and availability can vary by region.

Bonuses and Promotions

Bonuses and promotions are a big part of the GGPoker experience. Instead of relying on a single long-term offer, the poker room mixes a standard first-deposit package with rotating challenges, leaderboards, freerolls, and occasional special events. 

First Deposit Bonus. Upon making a first deposit of $20 or more on GGPoker, players can choose from the following offers:

• $100 in rewards (free tickets + Cash Game Dollars/C$)
• 100% deposit match bonus up to $600. $1 is unlocked for every $5 paid in net rake/tournament fees. Players have 90 days to clear the bonus.

Weekly Freerolls. GGPoker runs a $100,000 Weekly Freeroll every Saturday at 11:00 EST. You can qualify with a Weekly Freeroll ticket, earned by depositing $500+ within a week, playing 1,000 real money cash hands, referring a friend (after their first deposit), or winning a seat through the Daily Freerolls (Sun–Fri at 05:00 and 17:00 EST, with 2,000 seats each). Tickets expire after a limited time: daily — 7 days, weekly — 30 days.

New Player Missions. For new players, there is also a 30-day “Honeymoon” promotion with prizes for completing daily missions. Clearing all missions is worth a total reward of $350.

Players can start completing tasks within 30 days after creating an account. Tickets claimed from rewards will be valid for 30 days. No additional bonus codes are required.

GGCare & GGCheers. GGCare is GGPoker’s built-in “bad beat” relief feature. If you lose a hand that the room’s system marks as an unusually unlucky cooler, you may be automatically registered for the daily #ThanksGG Flipout and receive a starting stack. The exact trigger conditions aren’t publicly disclosed, but if you qualify you’ll typically see a confirmation pop-up in the client. The #ThanksGG Flipout itself runs as an automated all-in event, and you don’t have to be online when it starts.

Software

GGPoker without a doubt has some of the best poker software of any online cardroom. The GG network is clearly trying to set a new standard for what the online poker experience can be like. The graphics are stunning, the attention to detail is apparent and the software is updated very regularly to maintain these high standards.

GGPoker has clearly been designed with the player in mind. Everything is customizable from table configurations, bet amounts and rebuy preferences to personalised taunt animations to hurl at opponents. The innovative PokerCraft and HUD configurations let players analyse their game by checking positional statistics, wins and losses by gametype and even see if they’ve been running hot or cold.

Here are some other impressive features available on GGPoker:

• Rabbit Hunting — Find out if you’d have made your draw by seeing the next card after folding your hand.
• Cash Drop Hands — Win with between 5 and 500 big blinds extra in randomised pots which get bumped up with rake contributions.
• All-in Insurance — Take a small winnings cut to make sure you never suffer another bad beat.
• Card Squeeze — Peel back that all important river card to ramp up the tension.
• Bubble Protection — Take a small risk to get your buy-in if you go out on the bubble.
• Final Table Options — Switch seats, make deals and know your ICM.
• Snapcam — Record 15-second videos and send them to opponents.
• Shares exchange — Sell shares in tournament action or buy them from others directly in the lobby.
• Smart HUD — Extra information on opponents.
• SmartBetting — Suggests the size of the bet at the table based on the history of your game. Great for mobile play.
• PokerCraft — A database with detailed information about played hands and opponents.

The GGPoker app gives you access to all the features and style of the desktop clients except on the go, and literally at your fingertips. The mobile app has been designed to make navigation quick and smooth with streamlined multi-tabling (up to 4 tables), as well as casino app access and fully invertible graphics.

You can download the app for both iOS and Android, mobile and tablets, on the website.

Rake and Rakeback

In cash games, rake is taken as a percentage of the pot (with caps depending on the stake/table), Spin & Gold charges a 7% fee, and tournament fees vary by event — details are shown in each tournament lobby.

GGPoker’s rakeback is based on Fish Buffet points (FP), and the number of points you earn per $1 in rake/fees isn’t always the same for every player. On average, the poker room awards 100 FP per $1, but the exact rate can vary depending on several factors (game type, player behavior, deposit history, etc.). This is commonly referred to as PVI, and the exact formula is not publicly disclosed.

Fish Buffet cashback starts at 15% and can go up to 60% at the GGPlatinum tier.

When you get a new level (there are 24 of them in total), you are offered to spin the wheel for cash prizes.

Deposits and Withdrawals

Minimum deposit is $10 and a very wide range of payment options, including Bitcoin, is available. However, the same may not apply for withdrawals, so be careful to check that you have a means of withdrawing funds before depositing. 

GGPoker follows a closed-loop policy, meaning withdrawals are generally sent back to payment methods you’ve previously used to deposit. So, if you deposited with crypto, you won't be able to withdraw using a bank card. Account verification (KYC) is required to complete a withdrawal request, and document review typically takes 24–48 hours.

Supported payment systems include:

• Bank cards
• Skrill
• Neteller
• EcoPayz
• Luxon
• Much Better
• Crypto
• P2P (between players)

It should be taken into account that identity verification for deposits may take a few days to confirm, so be sure to send your documents to the support team in advance of making withdrawals. GGPoker support can be reached via email — help@ggpoker.com — or using the client (Settings — Verify ID). 

Payment methods may vary by country. GGPoker may charge a $1 withdrawal fee depending on the choice of payment method. 

Conclusion

GGPoker is a great option for casual and serious players alike as it has a good player pool, generous offers and some of the best software around. Its tournament schedule has something for everyone and the gameplay is a lot of fun.

On the downside, a lot of countries are restricted from playing and the rake is quite high compared to some of its rival poker sites.

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