More than a quarter of a billion was guaranteed and even more was paid out in the biggest festival online poker has ever seen.
More signs of GGPoker’s absolute dominance in the online poker space. The GGPoker World Festival boasted the biggest guarantee in poker history at $264 million.
It surpassed even those lofty expectations with $331 million collected over six weeks (up from $239 million in 2023). There were 1,623 tournaments in total and 5,155,782 entries (averaging 3,177 per tournament).
The average tournament had a prize pool of $204,196. Thank you to pokerfuse for compiling these stats.
This was GGPoker’s Spring festival and ran alongside the iconic SCOOP series at PokerStars. That festival, by comparison, awarded $90 million across 384 tournaments and averaged $235,551 and 3,324 entries per tournament. In that respect, SCOOP had the better relative success.
The GGPoker World Festival is, therefore, the biggest online series in poker history, with last year’s iteration being the 2nd biggest. GGPoker has four of the top five biggest online festivals, with the 2020 SCOOP festival being the third biggest with $185 million awarded (a reminder that was the peak of lockdown).
Once again, GGPoker are the unbridled success story of online poker since the pandemic and their meteoric rise shows no signs of slowing down. If recent trends continue then an online WSOP bracelet series should be on the horizon, which would no doubt break more records along the way.
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