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A GGNetwork skin,
or a poker platform of your own?

GGNetwork is the largest poker network in the world, and it does not license its software. Operators join it as skins: their brand, GG's software, GG's player pool. Here is how that compares with owning the platform your poker room runs on.
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The short answer

Which to choose

Become a GGNetwork skin if

  • Liquidity is the whole question: GGNetwork carries more cash-game traffic than any other network.
  • You are content to differ from other skins on bonuses, payments and regions, not on the software.
  • Your markets are ones the network is licensed for, and the United States is not among them.

Run your own PokerEnginePro platform if

  • You want poker as your own product: your lobby, your games, your formats and your player relationships.
  • You need each market's rules set the way that market wants them, from games and limits to registers.
  • You want to host it yourself, in your cloud or your jurisdiction, or have it hosted for you.

Where GGNetwork is strong[1][2][8][6][9][10]

  • The largest poker network by cash-game traffic, around twice PokerStars on public traffic rankings, with a record of over 900,000 concurrent logged-in users in May 2026.
  • Licences across Great Britain, Malta, the Isle of Man, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Ontario and more, with a Malta B2B licence for the network itself.
  • A deep product: Rush & Cash, Spin & Gold, All-in-or-Fold, run it twice or three times, all-in insurance, PokerCraft and a built-in Smart HUD.
  • Active work against real-time assistance, including a partnership with GTO Wizard announced in March 2025.

Side by side

The comparison

Facts about GGNetwork come from public sources, footnoted and dated below.

  • What you get

    GGNetwork
    A skin on a closed network. GG does not sell its software; skins share the same software and the same pool, and differ in bonuses, payments and regions.[3][4][5]
    PokerEnginePro
    The whole platform: engine, games, tournaments, ledger, back office and compliance, licensed to you.

  • Liquidity

    GGNetwork
    One pool for every skin, and the biggest in poker: about 4,030 cash-game players against about 2,029 for PokerStars on 27 June 2026.[1][3]
    PokerEnginePro
    Your own player pool, across all your markets; regional pools for larger operators.

  • The product players see

    GGNetwork
    GG's client and GG's lobby, the same on every skin.[3][5]
    PokerEnginePro
    Your brand on the felt, your lobby, your games and stakes, set per market from the back office.

  • Where it runs

    GGNetwork
    On GG's own platform, under the network's Malta B2B licence.[6][5]
    PokerEnginePro
    Your cloud, your data centre or ours — any Kubernetes, from one chart.

  • Player accounts and data

    GGNetwork
    Not published.[3]
    PokerEnginePro
    In your own database, with export and erasure per player.

  • Games

    GGNetwork
    No-Limit Hold'em, PLO, PLO5, PLO6 and Short Deck, with Rush & Cash fast-fold, Spin & Gold and All-in-or-Fold.[9]
    PokerEnginePro
    Every variant on one engine — Hold'em, Omaha, Short Deck, Stud, Razz, Draw, Badugi and mixed games — chosen per market.

  • Table features

    GGNetwork
    Run it twice or three times, all-in insurance, PokerCraft statistics and a built-in Smart HUD.[9]
    PokerEnginePro
    Run it twice or three times, all-in insurance, bomb pots, the 7-2 bounty and straddles — each a switch per table and per market.

  • Fair play

    GGNetwork
    A partnership with GTO Wizard against real-time assistance, announced in March 2025.[10]
    PokerEnginePro
    Every real-money deck committed before the deal and verifiable after it; bot and real-time-assistance signals worked as cases.

  • Markets

    GGNetwork
    Licensed in the Isle of Man, Malta, Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Ontario and more. No real-money presence in the United States.[8][11]
    PokerEnginePro
    Each market's rules as a signed rule pack, tested scenario by scenario; real money only where the operator is allowed. The licence stays with the operator.

  • Commercial terms

    GGNetwork
    Not published.[3]
    PokerEnginePro
    A platform licence, self-hosted or hosted; talk to us.

Who should choose which

A GGNetwork skin suits an operator whose first problem is liquidity and whose markets the network already covers. Natural8, OlyBet, PokerOK and Danske Spil's poker run this way. The trade is that every skin offers the same software and the same tables; skins compete on bonuses, payments and the regions they serve.

Your own platform suits an operator who wants poker to be its own product: its own lobby, its own formats, its own rules per market and its own player relationships — and who plans to build liquidity, or already has it.[3][4][7]

What a skin is, and what it is not

GG does not sell or license its poker software. A skin is a brand on GG's network: GG runs the software, the tables and the pool, under its own licences. OlyBet joined in 2020 on these terms. That is why GGNetwork's liquidity is so deep, and why a skin cannot change the product its players see.

NSUS, the company behind GGPoker, also owns the WSOP brand, bought in 2024, and runs ClubGG, a free club app. In June 2026 it withdrew its manufacturer licence in Pennsylvania; GGNetwork has no real-money presence in the United States.[3][5][7][12][11]

Liquidity without a network

No standalone room matches GGNetwork's traffic, and this page does not pretend otherwise. A platform of your own starts with your own players. PokerEnginePro builds on them the way standalone rooms do: one pool across all of an operator's markets where the rules allow, tournaments with satellites and guarantees, and play money that brings players to the tables.

  • Satellites and tickets feeding bigger events.
  • Bounty and progressive knockout tournaments, and fields of up to 10,000 players.
  • Play money and real money on one platform, kept apart on the same ledger.
  • Measured at 50,000 concurrent players, with tables and players spread across servers as load grows.

Questions

Asked and answered

Is PokerEnginePro part of, or approved by, GGPoker?

No. PokerEnginePro is an independent poker platform. GGPoker, GGNetwork and ClubGG are trademarks of their owner, and this page compares the two from public information.

Can I license GGPoker's software for my own room?

Not as the network is described publicly. GG does not sell its software; operators join GGNetwork as skins that share its software and its player pool.[3][5]

Does PokerEnginePro have shared liquidity?

Not across operators. Each operator runs its own pool, across all its markets where regulators allow, with regional pools for the largest.

Can I host PokerEnginePro myself?

Yes. It installs on any Kubernetes cluster, in any cloud or data centre, from one chart — or we host it for you.

Can PokerEnginePro run in the United States?

It is built to run under the operator's licence, market by market: each state's rules as a signed rule pack, geolocation at every door and real money only where the operator is allowed.

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. [1]Poker room rankings by traffic — PokerListings, checked 7 October 2026
  2. [2]GGPoker smashes traffic records with 900,000 players — pokerfuse, checked 7 October 2026
  3. [3]GG Network — VIP-Grinders, checked 7 October 2026
  4. [4]GGNetwork countries guide: what skin can I play — WorldPokerDeals, checked 7 October 2026
  5. [5]GGNetwork — PokerListings, checked 7 October 2026
  6. [6]GGPoker network awarded B2B licence in Malta — Gaming Intelligence, checked 7 October 2026
  7. [7]OlyBet joins the world's largest poker network — European Gaming, checked 7 October 2026
  8. [8]GGPoker — Wikipedia, checked 7 October 2026
  9. [9]GGPoker operator page — PokerNews, checked 7 October 2026
  10. [10]GGPoker and GTO Wizard team up to keep poker fair — PokerNews, checked 7 October 2026
  11. [11]Could WSOP Online be headed for a platform change? — pokerfuse, checked 7 October 2026
  12. [12]WSOP sale to GGPoker — SBC Americas, checked 7 October 2026

GGPoker, GGNetwork, ClubGG and WSOP are trademarks of their respective owners. PokerEnginePro is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by GGPoker, NSUS or any GGNetwork skin.

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