The larger the player pool, the bigger the prize pools and GGPoker is once again proving that point with the return of its biggest tournament series of the year: the GGPoker World Festival (GGWF), featuring at least $250 million in guaranteed prize money.
The gigantic series kicks off on May 4 and runs for nearly six weeks, featuring a staggering 1600+ tournaments with huge guarantees across the board.
As in previous editions, the schedule is split into four different buy-in tiers: Low, Medium, High, and Super. Buy-ins begin at just $2.50 for the Low tier, range between $25 and $149 for Medium, start at $150 for High, and are set at $1,050 for Super. Each tier includes 400 tournaments.
- Or get up to $100 worth of rewards
- Available in many regulated markets
- Great MTT schedule including WSOP events
Average guarantees per tournament are impressive across all tiers — $30,000 for Low, $150,000 for Medium, $200,000 for High, and $300,000 for Super.
GG World Festival 2025 Overview:
- Dates: May 4 — June 10
- Guarantees: $250M+
- Tournaments: 1600+
- Buy-ins: $2.50 to $25,500 across four tiers
- Top Events: Three $10M GTD tournaments
- Leaderboard Prizes: $3M across all tiers
Series Highlights & Headliners
While there is no shortage of high-value events throughout the festival, the true highlights are the $525 Global Mystery Bounty Festival, the $1,500 GG World Championship, and the $10,300 GGMillion$ Super Main Event, each offering a staggering $10 million in guaranteed prize money.
The schedule also features several standout events beyond the headliners. Among them are the $250 Global Mystery Bounty Festival with a $5 million guarantee, the $55 Global World Festival offering over $2 million in guarantees, and the $5.50 Global Mystery Million Festival, which comes with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool.
Omaha fans won’t be left out either, with several big-guarantee events on offer, including the $250 Omaholic Festival Closer with a $500,000 guarantee, the $25,500 GGMillion$ Omaholic Edition with $1 million guaranteed, and the $1,500 Omaholic Championship, also featuring a $1 million prize pool. The schedule also includes high-stakes Short Deck events and the Zodiac events, catering to the Asian player base and currency denominated in Chinese Yuan.
As is standard on GGPoker, many of the major events, including all of the above, will follow a phased format, with multiple Day 1 flights leading into the final stages.
The rest of the schedule also features solid guarantees, with numerous events offering $1 million prize pools. However, many of these tournaments are upgraded versions of the operator’s regular weekly events, featuring increased guarantees and potentially adjusted structures, a common strategy among operators to inflate the headline numbers of a series.
To promote the series, the GG World Festival Leaderboard makes a return with an even larger prize pool. This edition ups the total rewards from $2.5 million to $3 million, with separate leaderboards for each buy-in tier, giving players across all levels a shot at leaderboard glory.
“The GG World Festival is not just another tournament series – it’s the ultimate celebration of the global poker community,” said Daniel Negreanu, GGPoker Global Ambassador. “We’re proud to once again offer players the biggest guarantees in online poker and a festival that truly lives up to its name. This is where legends are made.”
The advertised $250 million is just the baseline; GGPoker fully expects the final prize pool to surpass that figure. In fact, total payouts are projected to exceed a staggering $300 million.
Consider last year’s 2024 edition: despite the same $250 million guarantee, the series ultimately paid out one-third of a billion across 1,623 tournaments, setting a new record in online poker history. It also drew an unprecedented 5.1 million entries.
This year’s festival could very well break those records once again.
Meanwhile, PokerStars’ Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is set to run around the same time, from May 11 to June 2. While the full schedule and prize pool guarantees have not been revealed yet, expectations are that the total guarantees will be in the ballpark of $70 million. In the lead-up to the main event, PokerStars is currently running a SCOOP Warm-Up series featuring $6 million in guaranteed prizes.
