GGPoker Breaks Largest Online Poker Overlay Record

Move aside PokerBaazi. Move aside PokerStars.

There’s a new holder for the record of largest overlay in online poker history. And unsurprisingly, it comes from the largest online poker room: GGPoker.

GGMasters Breaks Overlay Record

When GGPoker first launched the GGMasters six years ago, it cost $150 to enter and featured a $300,000 guarantee. Last year’s event featured a $5 million guarantee, but was cancelled on Day 2 after technical issues.

But for its sixth anniversary, GGPoker boosted its guarantee to a staggering $10 million, despite keeping the buy-in at $150.

The event featured seven starting flights: Three on February 1, three on February 8 and one final Last Chance flight on Monday 9.

As reported by PokerFuse, with around two hours left of registrationin today’s Last Chane flight, the overlay sat at $2.6 million, needing approximately 8,700 entries. By the time registration closed, that figure sat at $1,791,760.

This makes it the largest online poker overlay in history, beating the 2024 PokerBaazi GOAT ($1.4 million) and the 2020 PokerStars Big Blowout ($1.2 million)

It also comes in as the third-biggest overlay in poker history, behind the $2.5 million overlay at the 2014 Seminole Hard 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 said that the company “knew the risks” but that the “WPT’s long term plan is playing out.”

While this figure certainly won’t break the bank over at GGPoker, they may think twice about whether their long-term plan continues to involve lofty $10 million guarantees for just a $150 buy-in tournament.

What Could $1.8 Million Get YOU?

If GGPoker’s $1.8 million overlay were sitting in your bank account instead of the tournament prize pool, you’d be looking at a life-altering sum. To put that number into perspective, here is what $1.8 million can actually buy you in 2026.

• You could book three seats on a Virgin Galactic flight to the edge of space ($600,000 per seat).
• Coincidentally, $1.8 million is the average sales price for an apartment in Manhattan right now.
• Feeling charitable? According to the Against Malaria Foundation, at $5 per net, a $1.8 million donation would fund 360,000 nets, protecting over 700,000 people
• Financial experts call $1.5 million a “retirement checkpoint.” Allowing for a diversified portfolio, you could pay yourself a “salary” of $72,000 a year indefinitely without ever touching the principal

Based in the United Kingdom, Will started working for PokerNews as a freelance live reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time staff in 2019. He now works as Managing Editor.

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