Tag: Poker

Alex Botez, celebrated chess player and GGPoker’s newest brand ambassador, today announced a Spin & Gold ELO Challenge, which will see some of the most engaging chess content creators from across the globe compete on GGPoker’s digital felt during May for a $50,000 prize.

Testing if the skills that have taken them to the top of chess can drive the same success at the poker table, the ELO Challenge participants will play GGPoker’s innovative Spin & Gold poker games throughout the month.

Each player will be assigned an ELO rating, which ranks them by relative skill levels; this system will be very familiar to those playing chess competitively. The participant with the highest ELO rank on May 30 will claim GGPoker’s inaugural Spin & Gold ELO Challenge title and a winner’s prize of $50,000.

Confirmed content creators include:

• Raffael Chess (Brazil)

• Dina Belenk (USA)

• Jan Gustafsson (Germany)

• Eric Hansen (Chessbrahs – Canada)

• Aman Hambleton (Chessbrahs – Canada)

• Jose Pepitoperu (Mexico)

• Nemo Zhou (Chinese-Canadian)

“One of the reasons I am so excited to join GGPoker is being able to share my newfound love of poker with my fellow chess players from across the globe,” said Alex Botez, GGPoker Brand Ambassador. “The traits and skills that make good chess players translate so well into poker that I am sure this will be an incredibly close and exciting competition. I suspect many chess names will move up the poker ranks over the next few years!”

GGPoker’s innovative Spin & Gold game is a fast-paced single-table poker variant for either three or six players. Buy-ins start from $0.25, and in each game, the prizes on offer depend on a random multiplier; in a $1 game with three participants, the prize pool can reach a maximum of $100,000!

New GGPoker players can claim the poker room’s Welcome Bonus, earn even more rewards with the Honeymoon for Newcomers promotion and automatically join GGPoker’s Fish Buffet loyalty program, with regular cash prizes on offer.

Hundreds of World Series of Poker® Main Event tickets to be won at GGPoker.

GGPoker, the World’s Biggest Poker Room, today launches the Road to Vegas series of online poker tournaments, offering hundreds of ticket packages to this summer’s WSOP $10,000 Main Event.

Players can win their WSOP tickets via satellite tournaments hosted at GGPoker and at ClubGG, the world’s leading subscription poker platform. Qualifier and step satellite tournaments are running daily, with buy-ins starting from $1.

As in 2023, GGPoker has an additional sweetener for those that qualify for the 2024 Main Event; if any GGPoker qualifier becomes this year’s WSOP Main Event champion, they’ll snag an extra $1,000,000 bonus on top of the winner’s purse.

The highlight of the annual live poker schedule, the WSOP $10,000 Main Event is where reputations are cemented and legends are born. This year’s event begins on Wednesday, July 3, in Las Vegas, Nevada, with final table play scheduled for July 16-17. Last year’s event saw a record 10,043 participants battle across the felt, with Daniel Weinman claiming the title of world champion and a $12.1M prize, the biggest in WSOP history.

Each WSOP 2024 Main Event package won at GGPoker will include:

• $10,000 WSOP 2024 Main Event tournament entry
• $1,000 for Las Vegas accommodation (credited to each player’s GGPoker account)
• Promotional code for discounted accommodation at Caesars Entertainment properties
• $1,000 for travel expenses/spending money (credited to each player’s GGPoker account)
• GGPoker-branded merchandise & gifts
• Access to the exclusive GGPoker Platinum Lounge
• Direct registration to tournament with no need to queue

“It’s time to think about the biggest live tournament in the world again, and after last year’s record-breaking Main Event, I’m already super excited for this year’s WSOP,” said Daniel Negreanu, GGPoker Global Ambassador and six-time WSOP bracelet winner. “It’s the tournament that every single one of us players wants to take down more than any other. Get onto the Road to Vegas and meet me at the tables in Las Vegas this summer; I can’t wait for this year’s WSOP to begin!”

Added Sarne Lightman, Managing Director of GGPoker: “GGPoker is the only place for international players to qualify for the WSOP $10K Main Event, and after 774 players snagged their seats with us last year, we hope to see even more on the Road to Vegas in 2024. Let’s see if we can send 1,000 GGPoker players to experience the ultimate poker dream!”

New GGPoker players can also claim the poker room’s Welcome Bonus, earn even more rewards with the Honeymoon for Newcomers promotion and automatically join GGPoker’s Fish Buffet loyalty program, with regular cash prizes on offer.

To learn more about GGPoker’s Road to Vegas 2024 online tournaments, please visit: ggpoker.com

To learn more about ClubGG, please visit: clubgg.net/

GGPoker, the World’s Biggest Poker Room, is proud to launch exclusive online satellite tournaments to the upcoming WSOP Circuit UK £1,100 Main Event, which will be hosted at Nottingham’s Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club from March 15 through March 24.

The winner of the WSOP Circuit UK Main Event, which boasts a £500,000 guarantee, will claim a prestigious WSOP-C Gold Ring and the lion’s share of the massive prize pool.

Phased WSOP-C UK satellite tournaments are currently running at GGPoker, with buy-in to Centroll satellite tournaments set at £0.01, Phase 1 at £1,10, Phase 2 at £11 and the Final Phase at £110. At least five WSOP-C UK £1,100 Main Event tickets will be won in each Final Phase satellite.

Players that win £1,100 Main Event tickets will be registered into the exclusive OnLive Day 1 hosted by GGPoker on March 19, with all Day 1 survivors making it through to the live Day 2 on March 24.

“We’re delighted to partner once more with World Series of Poker and Dusk Till Dawn, with UK and Irish players promised a super event in Nottingham next month,” said Angela Martin, UK & Ireland Head of Marketing at GGPoker. “Players can win their way to the WSOP-C £1,100 Main Event for just a single penny and take aim at a guaranteed £500,000 and WSOP Gold Ring!”

New GGPoker players can also claim the poker room’s Welcome Bonus, earn even more rewards with the Honeymoon for Newcomers promotion and automatically join GGPoker’s Fish Buffet loyalty program, with regular cash prizes on offer.

Join the celebration of the launch of a groundbreaking product in the igaming industry – ORTAK.

Introducing Ortak, an innovative solution empowering online game creators to freely trade shares of their game revenue. Whether you aspire to be a shareholder in a blue-chip company or invest alongside a high-return trader, Ortak opens doors to exciting possibilities. To celebrate this launch, Stretch Network is thrilled to announce the exclusive tournament series, “For Ortaks Only.”

The tournament series will launch from February 23 to March 31 in a KO format with a prize pool of 1,000,000 EUR.

Moreover, top-performing players will have the chance to seize an extra 10,000 EUR thanks to the daily updated leaderboard.

This is your chance to become Stretch’s Ortak.

Back in August of 2020, GGPoker became a Guinness World Records holder for hosting the biggest prize pool in an online poker tournament with a staggering $27,559,500 prize pool. This achievement well surpassed the previous record, set a few months earlier by PokerStars in their 14th Anniversary Sunday Millions, which had an $18.6M prize pool.

The record, which some pundits thought would last forever, was unofficially broken yesterday when the combined Day 1 flights of the $5,000 WSOP Online MAIN EVENT attracted 6,023 unique players, creating a prize pool of $28,609,250.

This new unofficial record stands as a firm commitment to the poker community that GGPoker is now and will continue to be, the place for online poker.

From the field of 6,023 players, just 761 survived to Day 2. The final nine players will resume play this evening and compete for at least $250,000 each in prize money, with the outright winner’s prize standing at $2,783,432.