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GGPoker’s Poker Integrity Council (PIC) Now Launched

Published July 1, 2022

GGPoker today launched the Poker Integrity Council (PIC), which will spearhead an industry-wide effort to protect the integrity of poker by investigating allegations of cheating, conducting fair reviews and enforcing sanctions for the most egregious cheaters. 

The council is composed of well-respected community members, who will independently investigate suspicious behavior flagged at GGPoker tables. 

In each case brought before the council, the following process will be followed:

• DETECTION – suspicious behavior such as collusion, botting, use of real-time assistance (RTA) or ghosting is flagged for review
• REVIEW – the relevant hand histories (with the player detail anonymized) will be reviewed by Jason Koon, GGPoker Integrity Ambassador, and the Poker Integrity Council members
• RULING – the council members will vote on whether or not disciplinary action is required

Should disciplinary action be warranted, this can include the player being warned about their behavior, their account being suspended or permanently banned by GGPoker, and a permanent ban combined with confiscation of funds. 

In addition, in the most serious cases, a decision can be made to add the player to an industry blacklist. GGPoker’s PIC has allied with the industry’s biggest live poker tours and venues, including the World Series of Poker (WSOP), World Poker Tour (WPT), Triton Poker, Poker After Dark, Kings Casino, Asian Poker Tour (APT) and many more.

Blacklisted players will be barred from entry to events hosted by PIC allies, to further protect the wider poker community.

Notably, with the inception of the Poker Integrity Council, GGPoker can review the status of players previously blacklisted from the online poker room upon their request, and in certain circumstances remove or reduce the bans currently enforced.

The Poker Integrity Council members are:

• Jason Koon
• Andrew ‘LuckyChewy’ Lictenberger
• Fedor Holz
• Seth Davies – Run It Once
• Nick Petrangelo – Upswing Poker

“I joined GGPoker with an important objective in mind; to help the GGPoker team make their poker games more secure and fair than ever,” said Jason Koon, GGPoker Integrity Ambassador. “It’s an honor to launch the Poker Integrity Council and take another massive step in ensuring online poker is safe for all players. Our long list of allies also means that the wider community will be better protected via the industry-wide blacklist; we’re sending a united message that there’s no place in this game for cheaters.”

A press conference regarding the Poker Integrity Council will be held at Bally’s Las Vegas Hotel & Casino on Tuesday, July 5. Media will receive an official invitation to attend with further details over the weekend.

GGPoker Launches €25M Guaranteed Battle Of Malta Online 2022

Published July 8, 2022

Mid-stakes tournament series runs July 10 through 31

GGPoker today launches Battle of Malta Online, an online poker tournament series with at least €25,000,000 to be won. 

The tournaments will run from July 10 through 31, and the series is headlined by 18 feature events, including:

• Event #1 Kings Landing Opener €110 – €250,000 GTD – Sunday, July 10
• Event #6 Kings of Tallinn Main Event €220 – €400,000 GTD – Sunday, July 17
• Event #7 Global MILLION$ European Cup, €1M GTD [Final Day] – €1,000,000 GTD – Sunday, July 17
• Event #11 Grand Harbour Superstack €550 – €500,000 GTD – Sunday, July 24
• Event #12 Siege of Malta Bounty MILLION$, €1M GTD [Final Stage] – €1,000,000 GTD – Sunday, July 24
• Event #16 GGMasters Royal Championship €1,050 – €1,000,000 GTD – Sunday, July 31
• Event #18 Main Event, €2.5M GTD [Final Day] – €2,500,000 GTD – Sunday, July 31

GGPoker players can satellite into many Battle of Malta Online events. 

The series will include qualifier tournaments for the upcoming Battle of Malta Live Event series, which is scheduled to be held in October 2022. Additionally, 25 seat & hotel packages worth €1,555 will be won in the Battle of Malta Online Leaderboard, rewarding those players that best take the battle to their opponents over the course of the entire series.

“GGPoker is proud to partner once again with Casino Malta once more to host the ever-popular Battle of Malta Online,” said John Scanlon, Director of Sponsorships & Live Events at GGPoker. “With loads of mid-stakes poker tournaments to choose from, 18 awesome feature events and at least €25,000,000 to be won, we know that players will love this year’s series just as much as in previous years!”

New GGPoker players are eligible to 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. 

Gold bracelets and millions of dollars in prize money up for grabs on both GGPoker and WSOP.COM during the World’s Biggest online poker Festival   

Published August 5, 2022

GGPoker’s WSOP Online Main Event to feature $20,000,000 Guarantee

The World Series of Poker® (WSOP®) – the richest, most prestigious, and longest-running poker series – today announced WSOP Online 2022, a comprehensive online-only festival with offerings across both WSOP.COM in the United States and exclusive partner site GGPoker for all international territories. WSOP Online 2022 marks the third year of the online tournament series, which established several records in its first two years of existence. 

Following the record-breaking success of the 53rd annual WSOP on the Las Vegas Strip, which awarded a whopping $347.9 million in prize money to a staggering 197,626 entrants, WSOP Online 2022 will feature official gold bracelet tournaments and wall-to-wall side action on both GGPoker (Aug. 14-Sept. 27) and WSOP.COM (Sept. 10-Oct. 18). Each bracelet winner from WSOP Online 2022, both international and domestic, will earn a seat at the Tournament of Champions during the 2023 WSOP in Las Vegas.

For the third time, GGPoker will play host to the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em World Championship, known better to poker players and fans as the WSOP Online Main Event®. That event, which still holds the Guinness Book of World Records mark for prize pool in an online poker tournament, will again feature a staggering $20,000,000 prize pool guarantee.  

“No one wanted to see this year’s WSOP come to an end,” said Senior Vice President and Executive Director of the World Series of Poker, Ty Stewart. “However, in many ways, the return of WSOP Online is even more exciting. Together with GGPoker, we have a clear vision to make this festival annually the biggest deal in online poker so that the WSOP offers players the marquee event in both live and online poker each year.” 

GGPoker will offer 33 bracelet events with buy-ins ranging from $100 to $10,000. Highlights include the following tournaments:

• $1,111 Every 1 For War Relief – Sunday, August 14 
• Million Dollar Mystery Bounty – $10M GTD, 1M Top Bounty Prize – $210 buy-in – Monday, August 22 (Day 2)
• $10,000 Heads UP NLH Championship [No Late Reg, 128 Cap] – Saturday, August 27 
• $10,000 Super MILLION$ High Roller NLH – $5M GTD – Sunday, August 28
• $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER NLH – $5M GTD, $1M for 1st – Monday, August 29 (Final Day)
• $100 FLIP & Go NLH – $1M GTD – Monday, September 5 (Go Stage)
• $1,050 WSOP GGMasters HR Freezeout NLH – $2M GTD – Sunday, September 11
• $400 COLOSSUS – $3M GTD – Monday, September 19 (Final Day)
• $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em World Championship – $20M GTD – Monday, September 26 (Day 2)

Online satellites for all WSOP Online 2022 international bracelet events will run at GGPoker, allowing players to make their way into these events and take a shot at priceless WSOP gold for less.

New GGPoker players are eligible to 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 offered.

“Online bracelets are just as prestigious as live tournament bracelets,” said Daniel Negreanu, GGPoker Global Ambassador and winner of six WSOP gold bracelets. “I’m glad that we’re creating a new tradition to celebrate the online game, and I’m striving to add my first WSOP Online bracelet to my collection.”

WSOP Online on WSOP.COM, available to players physically located in Nevada or New Jersey, created prize pools of more than $25,000,000 in both 2020 and 2021, making it far and away the richest domestic online tournament series of all time. This year, the action is expanded to Michigan and Pennsylvania for the first time with six weekly bracelet tournaments each, for players geolocated within those state borders, in addition to the 33 bracelets that will be awarded on the Nevada and New Jersey shared liquidity network.

Buy-ins will range from $365 to $10,000 with WSOP.COM’s Online Championship set for $1,000 on Sunday, October 16. The online offering is scheduled adjacent to a series of notable live tournaments in Las Vegas this fall. Out-of-state players are invited and encouraged to participate in the series so long as their device is geolocated within state borders. Players are highly encouraged to test their account and geolocation services in advance of any tournament.

WSOP.COM highlights include the following tournaments:

• $500 Monster Stack – Sunday, September 11 in all markets (NV/NJ, PA, MI) 
• $400 PLOSSUS 6-Max – Saturday, September 24 (NV/NJ Only)
• $365 No Limit Hold’em Turbo Deepstack – Thursday, September 29 (NV/NJ Only) 
• $777 Lucky 7’s – Sunday, October 2 in all markets (NV/NJ, PA, MI)
• $1,500 No Limit Hold’em – Tuesday, October 4 (NV/NJ only)
• $500 Big 500 No Limit Hold’em – Sunday, October 9 (NV/NJ, PA, MI)
• $1,000 WSOP Online 2022 Championship-Sunday, October 16 in all markets (NV/NJ, PA, MI)
• $10,000 Super High Roller [1x Re-entry] – Tuesday, October 18 (NV/NJ Only) 

Daily satellites for all WSOP Online 2022 bracelet events will be available on WSOP.COM. 

All WSOP Online 2022 schedules are subject to change, and WSOP and GGPoker reserve the right to make changes to all events related to the WSOP Online 2022 at any time.

$5M Guaranteed mini MILLION$ Tournament Series To Launch October 2

Published September 22, 2022

Low buy-in poker tournaments to run through October 17

GGPoker today reveals details of its upcoming mini MILLION$ online tournament series, which launches on October 2 and runs through October 17. At least $5,000,000 in prizes will be won across the series, with event buy-ins starting from $1.

The series is headlined by a flagship event:

• $10.50 Mystery Bounty MILLION$ – Stage 1s from October 6 – $1,000,000 GTD

Other highlights include:

• $5 mini Global MILLION$ – Day 1s from October 2 – $300,000 GTD
• $11 Sunday Hundred Grand – October 2 – $101,000 GTD
• $5.25 Omaholic Mini Bounty MILLION$ – Stage 1s from October 2 – $100,000 GTD

“Even though the buy-ins are low, there’s nothing mini about this series!” said Sarne Lightman, Global Head of GGPoker. “There’s over $5 million to be won and with buy-ins starting from just $1, mini MILLION$ tournaments are designed to be accessible to almost every player.”

New GGPoker players are eligible to 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. 

 

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