GGPoker-style poker:
what each feature really takes.

GGPoker started in 2014 aimed at Asian players and became the largest online poker room by cash-game traffic in August 2022. On 3 May 2026, at the start of its GG World Festival, a series carrying $300 million in guarantees, more than 900,000 players were online at once. Its operator, NSUS, bought the World Series of Poker brand from Caesars for $500 million in 2024. It holds licences in Great Britain, Malta, the Isle of Man, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ontario and elsewhere.

Its product is built in layers: formats that make cash games faster (Rush & Cash, All-in or Fold), a jackpot Sit & Go (Spin & Gold), table features that reduce variance (running it more than once, cashing out an all-in), tools inside the client (PokerCraft and the Smart HUD), and a fair-play programme that now uses a solver company's data.

Some of these are engine work any good platform can do. Others only make sense with GGPoker's traffic. An operator who wants a 'GGPoker-style' room should know which is which before writing the roadmap.^[1][2][3]

The short version first. The first column is GGPoker's name for the feature; the last is what PokerEnginePro has today.

Rush & Cash is GGPoker's fast-fold game in Hold'em and Omaha. A player can fold at any time, even out of turn, and is dealt a new hand at a new table against new opponents. GGPoker adds Cash Drops: half a big blind is taken from pots of 30 big blinds or more to build a pool, and the room drops chips into selected hands, smaller drops into the pot and larger ones shared among everyone at the table.

To build it you need a pool service that reseats players every hand, tables that appear and vanish continuously, and enough players at each stake that nobody waits. Cash Drops add a promotion funded from the pots, which the books have to show separately from the rake. Above all you need traffic: GGPoker runs Rush & Cash because it has the players to fill it.

PokerEnginePro does not offer fast-fold tables or Cash Drops. For players who want volume, it offers multi-tabling in tabs or tiles over one connection, waitlists that seat the next player at the hand boundary, and templates that open six-max, heads-up and run-it-twice tables in one step. Every hand's rake is recorded per player, which is the base any promotion an operator runs later is built on.^[4][3]

Spin & Gold is GGPoker's jackpot Sit & Go: a hyper-turbo for three or six players in which a spinner sets the prize multiplier before play, from two times the buy-in up to 200,000 times. All-in or Fold strips poker down further: stacks of around eight big blinds and only two choices, all in or fold, in Hold'em and Omaha.

Both are fast to play and costly to run well. A jackpot Sit & Go needs a multiplier table whose expected prize equals what players paid in less the fee, a draw from the tested random number generator that is logged and approved by each regulator, and a constant flow of players at every buy-in. All-in or Fold needs a betting mode the engine enforces (no calls, no small raises) and a pool large enough that a table is always ready.

PokerEnginePro offers neither. It offers Sit & Go lines that open a new game as the last one fills, with regular, turbo and hyper speed presets, payouts reconciled to the chip and tickets into bigger events. The hyper preset plays three-minute levels from 25 big blinds, which is about as fast as a Sit & Go gets without a prize mechanic.^[3]

These are the features where the engine does the work, and where a smaller room can match a large one. GGPoker lets players who are all in agree to run the remaining cards more than once, splitting the pot between the boards. It also offers a way out of the variance: in GGPoker's EV Cashout, when players are all in and the cards are shown, anyone with 60 per cent or more of the pot's equity and more than 20 big blinds is offered a cash-out of their equity. Reviews of GGPoker describe the same idea as all-in insurance, for the favourite in an all-in.

Building either correctly is harder than it looks. Running it twice means the hand has to pause at the all-in, ask every player still in, treat silence as no, deal each run with its own burns from the same deck, split each contested pot by run while the rake is taken once, and show every hand. Insurance means exact equity, a price, and a premium that must never change the pot, the rake or anyone's rake share, so it needs its own entries in the books.

PokerEnginePro has both. Players all in can run the board twice or three times, by unanimous agreement, with ten seconds to answer and silence counted as no; the engine never runs more times than the deck can deal. Equity is exact with one or two cards to come and sampled otherwise, and shown only when the cards are face up, so the table never learns what it cannot see. All-in insurance is offered heads-up, to the favourite, on the contested pot, priced at their chance of losing it plus the operator's margin; the premium comes from the wallet in its own ledger entries. A table offers insurance or running it more than once, never both on the same hand, and each is off until the operator switches it on for that table.

Unlike GGPoker's EV Cashout, PokerEnginePro's insurance is heads-up only: with three or more hands in, which pot is at stake for whom has no single answer. The same tables also deal bomb pots on one board or two, the 7-2 bounty, and under-the-gun, button and Mississippi straddles.^[3][6]

PokerCraft keeps a GGPoker player's history inside the client, on mobile and desktop: any hand can be replayed, downloaded, filtered and analysed, with profit-and-loss graphs, results by hole cards and by seat, and results against individual opponents. The Smart HUD shows statistics about opponents at the table and is the only data overlay GGPoker permits, so every player sees the same information.

Behind a tool like PokerCraft sits a store of every hand, indexed by player, with statistics computed over millions of rows and served fast to a phone. A built-in HUD adds a policy decision: if the room computes the stats, it decides what is fair to show, and it can ban third-party HUDs without disadvantaging anyone.

PokerEnginePro stores every hand at settlement and exports it as canonical JSON or PokerStars-compatible text. Players replay any hand in the client through the same code that drew it live, so a replay never shows what the table would not have. There is no player stats dashboard and no built-in HUD today; an operator who allows trackers can let players import the exported histories.^[5][3]

In March 2025 GGPoker announced a partnership with GTO Wizard, a solver company, against real-time assistance. It introduced a Fair Play Check that can tell whether a given spot was looked up in GTO Wizard within a time window, and said it had already banned 31 accounts for breaking its fair-play rules.

Detection rests on signals, not single hands. Timing that is too steady or too fast for the difficulty of the decision, sessions no person could play, players who go easy on each other, accounts that share devices or payment instruments: each is weak alone and strong together. What makes a programme work is the queue behind the signals: evidence attached, cases worked by people, real money restricted while a case is open, and decisions taken by more than one person.

PokerEnginePro flags bot and real-time-assistance signals from timing and decision patterns, analyses hand histories for soft play and team play, and links accounts through shared devices, IP addresses, payment instruments and wallets, each kept only as a keyed hash. Alerts arrive with their evidence in an integrity case queue; real money is restricted at once, and closure or confiscation needs a second person. Real-money tables seat people only. There is no solver-company partnership; the thresholds are the operator's Compliance settings.^[7]

GGPoker's festivals work because hundreds of thousands of players are online to fill them. Its staking platform lets players buy shares of a tournament player's action, or sell their own, and receive their share when the player cashes; ambassadors offer action in their events.

Staking is a money product, not a lobby feature: shares have to be held, refunded if the player does not play, settled to each backer when the player cashes, and checked like any other transfer between players. Festivals are tournament software at scale plus a player base.

PokerEnginePro has the tournament side: scheduled events, satellites and tickets, guarantees and overlay, one field across every server, and a measured load run of 50,000 concurrent players across 10,000 tables. It has no staking. Each operator runs its own player pool across its markets where the rules allow; the platform does not pool players between operators, so the traffic is the operator's to build.^[2][6][3]