GGPoker Records Largest Online Poker Overlay Ever

Transfer apart PokerBaazi. Transfer apart PokerStars.

There is a new holder for the document of the most important overlay in on-line poker historical past. And unsurprisingly, it comes from the most important on-line poker site: GGPoker.

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When GGPoker first launched the GGMasters six years in the past, it value $150 to enter and featured a $300,000 assure. Final yr’s occasion featured a $5 million assure, however was cancelled on Day 2 after technical points.

However for its sixth anniversary, GGPoker boosted its assure to a staggering $10 million, regardless of preserving the buy-in at $150.

The occasion featured seven beginning flights: Three on February 1, three on February 8 and one closing Final Probability flight on Monday 9.

As reported by PokerFuse, with round two hours left of registration in right now’s Final Probability flight, the overlay sat at $2.6 million, needing roughly 8,700 entries. By the point registration closed, that determine sat at $1,791,760.

This makes it the most important on-line poker overlay in historical past, beating the 2024 PokerBaazi GOAT ($1.4 million) and the 2020 PokerStars Massive Blowout ($1.2 million)

It additionally is available in because the third-biggest overlay in poker historical past, behind the $2.5 million overlay on the 2014 Seminole Arduous Rock Poker Open and the $2.4 million overlay from the 2023 WPT World Championship.

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After the WPT’s overlay in 2023, Adam Pliska, President and CEO of the World Poker Tour stated that the corporate “knew the dangers” however that the “WPT’s long-term plan is enjoying out.”

Whereas this determine definitely will not break the financial institution at GGPoker, they might assume twice about whether or not their long-term plan nonetheless entails lofty $10 million ensures for a $150 buy-in event.

What Might $1.8 Million Get YOU?

If GGPoker’s $1.8 million overlay had been sitting in your checking account as a substitute of the event prize pool, you’d be taking a look at a life-altering sum. To place that quantity into perspective, here’s what $1.8 million can truly purchase you in 2026.

You would e-book three seats on a Virgin Galactic flight to the sting of area ($600,000 per seat).Coincidentally, $1.8 million is the typical gross sales value for an condo in Manhattan proper now.Feeling charitable? Based on the Towards Malaria Basis, at $5 per web, a $1.8 million donation would fund 360,000 nets, defending over 700,000 individuals.Monetary consultants name $1.5 million a “retirement checkpoint.” Permitting for a diversified portfolio, you would pay your self a “wage” of $72,000 a yr indefinitely with out ever touching the principal.

Based mostly in the UK, Will began working for PokerNews as a contract reside reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time employees in 2019. He now works as Managing Editor.

He graduated from the College of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He additionally holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports activities Journalism.