The Good Game Series (GGS) is the GGNetwork’s (GGN) first network-wide online tournament series. It isn’t starting small.

Starting on November 18, the network will host 129 events with over $3.5 million in guaranteed prize money. The series closes on December 2, when there will be a $25,000 buy-in Super High Roller with a $500,000 guarantee.

On days without a six-figure guaranteed event, GGN offers a $200 buy-in Daily Main with a $50,000 guarantee.

In addition, there is $220,000 in guarantees for satellites to the series tournaments and a $100,000 GGS Giveaway promotion which runs through November.

No-Limit Hold’em, No-Limit Hold’em Bounty, Pot Limit Omaha, Pot Limit Omaha Bounty

Skins on the GGN offer four versions of Texas Hold’em and Omaha. All four are included in the GGS.

Buy-ins range from $10 to $25,000. That Super High Roller figure is a challenging target and represents a lot of confidence that there will be enough players willing to stump up the cash.

US players are not allowed on the network, so GGN is banking on interest from high stakes Asian players and maybe some Europeans and Russians who can set up accounts.

One factor that might help is that December 2 sees three big guarantee events:

• #124 Championship $250K GTD–$500 buy-in, Start time 16:00 (UTC)
• #125: High Roller $250K GTD–$5,000 buy-in, Start time 17:00 (UTC)
• #126: Super High Roller $500K GTD–$25,000 buy-in, Start time 17:00 (UTC)

Putting these three events together is either a big risk, or a real incentive to high rollers who are confident playing multiple tables.

GGN claims to be the largest online poker network in Asia

The GGN poker rooms are not well known in the West. Their market is Asia and Russia where they now boast the same 7 day average of cash game players as 888. That makes them the 7^th largest poker room in the world.

There are 16 skins on the network including:

• LotosPoker—former 888 skin licensed in the UK targeting the Russian market
• GGPoker.co.uk—licensed in the UK and one of several English language rooms on the GGN
• Natural8—targeting the Asian markets

GGN skins differentiate themselves from some of the major rooms with game enhancing software features:

• Play all-in hands three separate times
• Blind raise regardless of position
• Reveal your hand
• Tell the table what you need to win
• After you’ve folded, you can even see which cards would’ve come up next

The poker room also offers special bankroll builder rake-free tournaments. The T$ builder tournaments have buy-ins from $1 to $8 with all the entry fees going to the prize pool.

Tournaments kick off every 30 minutes. There is one catch; all prizes are paid in tournament dollars which can only be used to enter real money tournaments.

The extra expected value should more than make up for this restriction, and looks like a great marketing concept to attract new players to the tournament format.

GGN prohibits HUDs but offers its own

As part of its strategy to protect recreational players, GGN doesn’t allow third party tracking software or Head Up Displays (HUD).

However, it does give all players a proprietary stripped down HUD. The new feature was introduced at the beginning of October (paywall) this year.

Instead of the standard stats such as VPIP, the GGN HUD shows stats such as Luck Factor and Heat Index which show how well a player is running during his or her session.

Cash game players will see their opponents’ lifetime win/loss and the three biggest hands played against each.

A seven day moving average of 1,150 cash game players is no mean achievement in the current online poker environment. Peak players can hit close to 2,000 and there are normally over 10,000 players online at any particular time.

The GGS is a reach-out to a broader market

GGN certainly looks ready to reach out to a global market. Poker software is excellent, promotions and special offers are comparable with all major operators.

The GSS is definitely competitive with the tournament series offered by PokerStars, 888 or partypoker. It just might encourage a lot of new players to give them a go.

The GSS may mark the network’s magic moment when the GGN sites begin to be more widely known in the global poker community. A couple of big name European or Russian winners would be a real marketing coup for GGN.

GGPoker is taking the All-In or Fold fun to the next level. The site is the flagship poker room on the GGNetwork, Asia’s biggest poker network, and on Wednesday announced its big monthly promotion for September – the $100,000 All-In or Fold Festival.

The event should have plenty of players ready to move all in. Gaining entry into the festival is easy. The promotion rewards players who get dealt into the site’s fast-action All-In or Fold (AoF) poker variant. Simply by playing a certain number of hands at AoF tables beginning Sept. 1, players qualify for automatic entry into the site’s daily and weekly All-In Festival tournaments.

“Another month, another chunk of cash to hand over to GGPoker players ” head of GGPoker Paul Burke said. “ Playing All-In or Fold is already the most fun you can have as a poker player, and by adding a giveaway festival element I expect excitement of AoF to explode during September! ”

Can’t make it to the tournament you qualified for? Players don’t even have to log in for the festival tournaments to have a shot at the cash. The festival’s “automatic all-in tournament” format means events play out and winners are paid without any active participation.

Players just need to rack up AoF hands to claim their shot at some of the $100,000 in cash. How does a player qualify? Here’s a look at what it takes to get “all in” on the action:

Tournament Required Number of Hands to Qualify

• Daily $200 Guaranteed 200 per day
• Daily $500 Guaranteed 500 per day
• $20,000 Guaranteed 3,000 per week

(Sept 8, 15, 22, 29)

GGPoker players have even more opportunities at the free cash. AoF players can snag the progressive All-In or Fold Jackpot each time they’re all in. The site is awarding big payouts when players make certain big hands: a straight flush or better in Texas hold’em or a royal flush in Omaha.

For players new to GGP, the site is offering a 200 percent first deposit bonus worth up to $1,000. New players also automatically become members of the Fish Buffet loyalty program, spinning for cash prizes each time they reach a new status level.

GGPoker offers plenty of ways to win and features several innovative games that set it apart from other poker sites. Some of those include progressive All-In or Fold Jackpots, Integrated Staking, Straddle Bets, All-In Insurance, and the PokerCraft integrated tracking tool – all designed to enhance the poker experience and make it more fun.

For more information on the $100,000 All-In or Fold Festival, visit GGPoker.com.

Asia’s biggest poker network is loading up another huge promotion with over $200,000 in prizes set to be doled out in June.

The GGPoker $200K Hold’em Festival will run all of June with leaderboard prizes for four different levels of stakes.

Once again players will benefit from point multipliers on Saturday and Sunday, which gives the weekend warriors a fighting chance.

GGPoker will also have a high-stakes featured table tier where blinds range from $25/$50 all the way up to $100/$200, which should create some extra fireworks on the site.

Players who take part in said feature table games will receive 50 percent more points during the month of June.

Featured, High, Middle and Low stakes return

GGPoker will once again be utilizing the Featured, High, Middle, and Low stakes for June’s Hold’em festival.

The festival comes hot off the heels of the $200K PLO Festival that’s currently running for the rest of May.

Points for the Hold’em festival will be tabulated at the end of June with prizes being handed out for top players in the four different leaderboards. For instance, the points generated at the high tables will not count towards the low leaderboard and vice versa.

Players earn 1 point for every $.01 of rake generated at Hold’em cash game tables.

Here’s how the prizes will be allotted:

• Low: Top 50 players receive their share of $20,000
• Middle: Top 50 players receive their share of $60,000
• High: Top 30 players receive their share of $90,000
• Featured: Top five players receive share of $30,000

GGPoker will also be running frequent point multipliers for certain days of the month. The multipliers range from 1.5X all the way up to 3X for the last Saturday of June.

Be sure to check the GGPoker June Hold’em Festival calendar to get an idea of the best times to play.

GGPoker introduces action-packed Three-Blind Hold’em

The $200k Hold’em Festival is just one of the many reasons to play on GGPoker in the month of June.

GGPoker is also launching a brand-new Hold’em variant called Three-Blind Hold’em to ratchet up the action.

As you might expect, Three-Blind Hold’em adds yet another blind after the big blind, which cranks each hand’s mandatory bet from 1.5 big blinds to 3.5 big blinds.

Action junkies will love the format as players are incentivized to play more hands so they don’t get blinded down.

Three-Blind Hold’em tables also feature antes so it will be difficult for anyone to hide for very long. Players can expect to see a lot more flops and more consistent multi-way action.

New players looking to try Three-Blind Hold’em will be happy to note that games played in the variant count towards the June $200k Hold’em Festival leaderboard.

Three-Blind Hold’em goes live on GGPoker on May 28th so players will get a few days to try it out before the June Hold’em Festival begins.

Even More Gamble in All-in or Fold Sit & Go’s

It may not count towards the June Hold’em Festival but GGPoker also launched All-in or Fold Sit & Go’s for players who enjoy a little more gamble in their poker.

As with most all-in variants players are simply given two choices on each hand: Fold or go all-in. No calling allowed.

Regardless of how you play, it’s going to be a big summer on the burgeoning GGPoker network.

Ever experience No-Limit Hold’em fatigue?

Apparently, people behind the GGPoker Network are familiar with the feeling. The network is loading up a huge $200,000 guaranteed Omaha points race for May.

The $200,000 GGPoker Omaha Festival will run from May 1-30, 2018, with a variety of different prizes up for grabs.

The promo will reward players at four different buy-in levels including low, medium, high and the very special “featured” category that offers stakes up to $100/$200.

The points will be added up for each different category. There will be cash prizes for the players who finish in the upper echelon for their respective category.

For every $.01 of rake that players generate while playing Omaha on GGPoker they will receive one point towards the race in that respective buy-in level.

Over 100 players will win prizes

You don’t have to finish first in the GGPoker Omaha Festival to win some cash. In fact, over 100 players on GGPoker will receive something.

It breaks down as follows:

• Low: Top 50 players receive their share of $10,000
• Medium: Top 50 players receive their share of $20,000
• High: Top 30 players receive their share of $70,000
• Featured: Top 15 players receive their share of $100,000

That’s a total of $200,000 in prizes. Players could conceivably hit the leaderboard in several different buy-in levels if they decided to put in some serious volume.

It also means that dedicated PLO players can simply play the stakes where they usually play and still get in on the action. Even players who never play Omaha will likely want to try playing for a few days just to see if they can get an early lead in the race.

Bonus points available on Saturday, Sunday, Monday

GGPoker is giving players a little extra incentive to get busy around the weekend.

The network will multiply points by:

• 2.5X on Saturday
  
• 2X on Sunday
  
• 1.5X on Monday

The points multipliers mean that weekend warriors won’t be completely locked out of the challenge as they can put in some serious time on Saturday and Sunday to receive more than double their usual amount of points.

Players will have until May 30 to earn points. At the end of the month, all the points will be tallied up. Then the respective winners will be able to claim their share of the prize pool.

GGPoker Bolsters Pro Roster with Bryn Kenney

GGPoker, which has always been a popular poker portal for Asian players, seems to be set on expanding its market share.

The network’s traffic has been steadily growing over the last couple years (it’s currently a top 10 ranked site on PokerScout). Last month it added noted high-stakes pro Bryn Kenney to its pro team.

Kenney will serve as an ambassador for GGPoker around the world in addition to acting as a consultant for the player experience on the site.

You can even buy some of Kenney’s action through the site if you’ve always wanted to sweat one of the most successful high-stakes pros in poker.