PPPoker, PokerBros and ClubGG,
or regulated club poker?
The short answer
Which to choose
A club app fits if
- You run a private play-chip community and want it on a free app your members already know.
- Clubs and unions are the structure you want, with games and stakes set club by club.
- No money passes through the game, so you need no cashier, no ledger and no regulator.
Run regulated club poker on PokerEnginePro if
- You want private and invite-code rooms where real money runs through a cashier and a ledger, under a licence.
- You need every player checked — identity, sanctions, location and limits — before a real-money seat.
- You want owners and agents with their own controls and reporting, on a platform you own.
Where PPPoker, PokerBros and ClubGG is strong[2][1]
- Free apps that a club owner can open and fill with members, with no platform to build.
- A clear hierarchy — app owner, union, club, managers, agents and sub-agents — each with its own role.
- Unions that join many clubs into one shared pool of tables.
- Broad game lists: on ClubGG, No-Limit Hold'em, PLO4, PLO5, PLO6, Open-Face Chinese, Short Deck and MTTs.
Side by side
The comparison
What it is
- Club apps
- A social app on play chips. ClubGG, for example, has no cashier, no deposits and no real-money games inside it.[1]
- PokerEnginePro
- A poker platform for play money and real money, licensed to the operator and run under its licence.
Structure
- Club apps
- App owner, union, club, managers, agents and sub-agents.[2]
- PokerEnginePro
- The operator, staff with roles and permissions, room owners, and agent networks with their own reporting.
Private games
- Club apps
- Games live in private clubs; members join a club, or a union's shared tables.[1]
- PokerEnginePro
- Public, private and invite-code rooms, checked when a player joins and again when they sit.
Owner controls
- Club apps
- Club owners set the rules and manage their players.[2]
- PokerEnginePro
- The owner invites and removes players, pauses and closes the room, and changes stakes and timers between hands.
How money moves
- Club apps
- Outside the app. As described for ClubGG, players buy chips and cash them out through their agent.[1]
- PokerEnginePro
- Through the operator's cashier: deposits and withdrawals on a double-entry ledger, reconciled every night, paid back where they came from.
Identity, AML and sanctions
- Club apps
- Not published.[1]
- PokerEnginePro
- Verification in tiers, sanctions and PEP screening, and AML monitoring that turns alerts into cases.
Location
- Club apps
- Not published.[1]
- PokerEnginePro
- Every connection placed by geolocation; a game not offered where the player is cannot be joined.
Responsible gambling
- Club apps
- Not published.[1]
- PokerEnginePro
- Limits the player sets, reality checks, cool-off and national self-exclusion registers.
Games
- Club apps
- On ClubGG: No-Limit Hold'em, PLO4, PLO5, PLO6, Open-Face Chinese, Short Deck and MTTs.[1]
- PokerEnginePro
- Hold'em, Omaha, Short Deck, Stud, Razz, Draw, Badugi and mixed games, chosen per market.
Records
- Club apps
- Not published.[2]
- PokerEnginePro
- An audit log that cannot be rewritten, every hand replayable, and the regulator's reports generated each period.
Who should choose which
A club app suits a private community playing for chips that carry no value: friends, a home game, a group that wants tables on their phones without building anything.
A regulated platform suits an operator — or an agent network working with one — that wants club-style poker for real money. The private rooms, the invite codes and the owners stay. The cashier, the checks and the records come with them.[1]
How the club-app model works
The app owner provides the platform. Union owners join clubs together and run larger tournaments; club owners set the rules; managers run the day; agents and sub-agents bring in players. ClubGG, released by the GGPoker network in 2021, describes itself as a social gaming platform with play chips only.
Real money, where it is involved, does not pass through the app. As sources describe the model, players buy and cash out chips through their agent, who stands where a licensed cashier would. Identity checks, location checks and limits are not part of what the apps publish.[2][1]
Club poker on a platform of your own
PokerEnginePro keeps what makes clubs work and runs it under the operator's licence. Rooms can be private to the owner's invitees or reached with an invite code. Play money and real money run on the same platform, kept apart. Every real-money seat passes the market's checks first.
- Private and invite-code rooms, with owner controls between hands.
- Agents and affiliates with their own reporting.
- Identity, sanctions and AML checks before real money, and geolocation at every door.
- A double-entry ledger, so every chip a player holds is accounted for.
Questions
Asked and answered
Is PokerEnginePro part of, or approved by, PPPoker, PokerBros or ClubGG?
No. PokerEnginePro is an independent poker platform. PPPoker, PokerBros and ClubGG are trademarks of their respective owners, and this page compares the models from public information.
Are club apps real-money poker?
They describe themselves as social. ClubGG runs on play chips, with no cashier and no deposits; where real money is involved, sources describe it moving between players and agents outside the app.[1]
Can I run private, invite-only games on PokerEnginePro?
Yes. Rooms can be public, private to the owner's invitees, or reached with an invite code, and the owner controls who plays and at what stakes.
Does PokerEnginePro support agents?
Agent networks and affiliates, each with their own reporting, are part of the back office. Money still moves only through the operator's cashier and ledger.
Can I start with play money?
Yes. Play money and real money run on the same platform, kept apart, so a community can start on play chips and move to real money in the markets where the operator is licensed.
Method
Facts about other companies come from their own pages and from trade press, listed here with the date each was last checked. Facts about PokerEnginePro describe the platform itself. Where a company does not publish something, the page says so instead of guessing. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we will correct it.
Last reviewed 7 October 2026
Sources
- [1]ClubGG — WorldPokerDeals, checked 7 October 2026
- [2]The club poker model explained — Creatiosoft, checked 7 October 2026
PPPoker, PokerBros, ClubGG and X-Poker are trademarks of their respective owners. PokerEnginePro is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any of them.
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