Poker Tournaments on the GG Network

GGPoker and Natural8 are a part of the Asia-friendly GGNetwork. The player pool is one of the biggest around, which of course makes it interesting for tournament players. You’ll find many tournaments every day, with juicy guaranteed prize pools and, as an official partner of the WSOP, the GGNetwork also offers special WSOP online tournament series, with millions of dollars up for grabs.

It should come as no surprise, given the all-embracing, ‘everyman’ approach of GG to online poker, that there’s a smorgasbord of tournaments to suit all tastes and bankrolls. Furthermore, you will enjoy a lot of private tournaments from YourPokerDream once you sign up at GGPoker via us as an affiliate.

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At the start of a tournament, players receive an equal amount of tournament chips for their buy-in and, in the case of the Freezeout format, it is not possible to buy any more. Once a player loses all of their chips they are simply eliminated from the tournament; there are no second chances. It is this ‘single bullet’ feature that can either put off or attract players to Freezeout tournaments – some believe that having to play with a more circumspect, cautious approach calls for more quality play, while others find that they feel restricted.

In a significant contrast to Freezeout tournaments, Rebuys afford players the option of paying for additional chips – in the form of a rebuy – should they lose their initial starting stack. It is also possible to buy more chips during the specified rebuy period when a player’s current chip count numbers less than the starting stack amount. Compared with Freezeouts, this feature of the Rebuy format allows players to effectively have double the standard stack at their disposal during the early stages of a tournament, which many players find useful for various reasons.

Many tournaments offer both unlimited rebuys plus the option, at the end of the Rebuy period, to buy yet more chips in the form of an add-on. Note that an add-on can be for a higher amount of chips than the initial starting stack and rebuy amounts, and can also be bought at a discount price.

Mainly taking the form of Progressive Knockout (PKO) Bounty tournaments, these are relatively new to online poker, but have proved to be so popular that they have become the norm for many players. Part of the buy-in goes to the usual prize pool and part goes to the bounty pool so that knocking out an opponent has the bonus of winning a cash bounty. This is an attractive feature because it means that it’s not necessary to make the prizes to win money.

How bounties are paid depends on the particular format. When Knockout tournaments were originally introduced a player might receive a set amount for each opponent they eliminated, but during the last few years the format has evolved, and the aforementioned PKO is now the norm. The ‘progressive’ idea is that, for example, after knocking a player out of the tournament, the victor receives half of the bounty as a cash reward, while the other half is then added to their own bounty, in turn making them a more profitable target for everyone else. As a PKO tournament continues, then, the remaining players’ bounty values increase as the field decreases, thus introducing the possibility of earning a big payout just by virtue of eliminating a single opponent.

Satellite tournaments serve as qualifiers for events that have buy-in levels that might be beyond the budget of most players. By affording everyone – regardless of the status of their bankroll – the opportunity to qualify for a $100 buy-in tournament, for instance, via a satellite or a series of satellites that can cost mere pennies, online poker rooms cater for the whole poker community. It’s thanks to the concept of satellite tournaments that countless poker fans find themselves winning considerable – even life-changing – sums in tournaments in which they otherwise would not have been able to participate.

For a while now, online poker rooms have given players the same opportunity to make Final Table deals that we see in bricks & mortar casinos and card rooms. Sometimes, for one reason or another, the remaining players at a final table are happy to carve up what’s left of the prize pool by each agreeing to accept a specified amount that’s typically commensurate with the respective chip counts.

Poker rooms such as our partners Party Poker and GGPoker offer such final table deals. In fact the software can be quite sophisticated, with the poker room even automatically suggesting a percentage distribution of the remaining prize money depending on the current chip status, thus allowing all concerned to be on an equal footing at the start of any negotiations. Players have the option to accept or decline proposed deals, of course, and everyone must agree on the terms for play to cease and the tournament to end at that point.