GGPoker Makes History With Biggest Online Series Ever $300M Guaranteed GG World Festival!
Five weeks. Four tiers.
One festival that changes it all.
The largest guaranteed prize pool in online poker history.
Some records feel inevitable in hindsight. The $300 million guaranteed in the GG World Festival 2026 is one of them. GGPoker’s annual flagship series has grown every year since its debut, and this May it takes another step into uncharted territory: the single largest guaranteed online poker series in the history of the game. From May 3 through June 9, GGPoker is putting $300,000,000 on the line across 1,600 tournaments. Players at every level have a seat at this table.
To understand how extraordinary that number is, it helps to know where the series came from.
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A Record-Breaking Track Record
launched in 2023 with a number that already felt enormous: $200 million. When the series finished, a total of $239 million had been paid out to players in the inaugural edition. Then came 2024, which promised $250 million and ended with $331.4 million distributed across 1,623 tournaments, making it the largest online poker series in history at that point. The 2025 festival matched the energy, guaranteeing another $250 million, but awarding $324.7 million and attracting a record 5.6 million entries, proving that the appetite for this series continues to grow year over year.
Three editions. Nearly $900 million in combined prize money. And now, for 2026, GGPoker has pushed the guaranteed number to $300 million before a single card is dealt. The previous three editions exceeded their guarantees every time. The question for 2026 is not whether players will show up. It is how far past $300 million the final number will go.
To put the scale in context: the 2024 edition alone paid out nearly three times what WCOOP and WSOP Online combined awarded that same year. There is no other online poker series operating at this level.
The GGMillion$: The Flagship That Built the Festival
Before there was a GG World Festival, there was the GGMillion$. GGPoker’s weekly high-stakes flagship tournament has been running year-round since the platform’s early years, building a track record of massive prize pools and elite competition that gave the annual festival its DNA. The GGMillion$ runs every week with a $10,000 buy-in and a prize pool that routinely exceeds its seven-figure guarantee. Its reputation attracted the high-stakes community to GGPoker long before the festival existed, and during the festival, it becomes the centerpiece of the entire event.
The buy-in is steep, but GGPoker has always provided a satellite pathway to it. Step satellites, starting at a few dollars, run around the clock, and during the World Festival that pathway widens significantly. Every year, a meaningful portion of the GGMillion$ field in the GGWF consists of players who qualified for a fraction of the $10,000 entry fee. That is part of what makes the event work: a genuinely elite field with genuinely diverse entry routes.
Past Champions and Notable Moments
The GGMillion$ has produced some of the most remarkable results in online poker history. Bernhard Binder of Austria has won the tournament twice, with his biggest score reaching $1,832,484 from a field of 1,226 entries. Adrián Mateos, widely regarded as one of the world’s best tournament players, has five GGMillion$ titles to his name, a record that underlines just how competitive the field is and how exceptional you have to be to win it once, let alone repeatedly. Mikita Badziakouski, another consistently dominant force in high-stakes online poker, has taken the tournament for over $1.7 million in a single result. Of course, all of these pale in comparison to Artur Martirsian, who has won it an unprecedented 12 times and earned over $10 million from this tournament alone.
These are not soft scores. The GGMillion$ attracts the best players in the world every week, which makes every win meaningful and gives the GG World Festival’s main event the kind of historical weight that most online tournaments never achieve. When the 2026 GGMillion$ Main Event runs on May 25, whoever lifts the title is joining a short list of names that define the modern era of online poker.
Built for Every Player
The architecture of GG World Festival is what sets it apart from other series. GGPoker designed this event so that no player gets priced out. Four buy-in tiers give the schedule a meaningful home for every bankroll:
- Low – $3 to $25 buy-ins
- Medium – $26 to $150 buy-ins
- High – $151 to $1,050 buy-ins
- Super – $1,051 and above
Each tier runs approximately 400 tournaments, covering daily events, bounty tournaments, specialty games, and weekend majors. Omaha and Short Deck variants get dedicated tracks across all four tiers, so Hold’em is not the only game in town. The full schedule runs to roughly 1,600 total events, of which 40 carry individual guarantees of at least $1 million.
The Marquee Events
Three headline tournaments each carry $10 million in guaranteed prize money, and each one represents a different way to take a shot at life-changing money. All three fall in the back half of the festival, giving players the first two weeks to build momentum before the biggest games of the year go live.
The $525 World Bounty Festival (May 18, $10M GTD) opens the marquee stretch with a mystery bounty format, rewarding every elimination with an immediate cash prize pulled from a sealed bounty pool. The format has become one of the most popular in modern poker because it creates action at every stack depth, and the $10 million guarantee makes it one of the richest bounty tournaments to ever run online.
The GGMillion$ Main Event (May 25, $10,000 buy-in, $10M GTD) is the prestige flagship of the festival. This is the tournament that will define the 2026 edition, the one players will talk about long after the final hand is dealt. Seven-figure scores are realistically in play for the final 3 or 4 players. Satellites into this event are running throughout the festival at multiple entry points.
The GG World Championship (June 1, $1,500 buy-in, $10M GTD) closes out the marquee stretch by carrying the same $10 million guarantee at a fraction of the entry fee. For the majority of players, this is the tournament where they take their biggest shot of the year. The lower buy-in relative to the GGMillion$ produces a larger field, more variance, and the kind of lottery-style upside that draws players from every tier of the game.
Further down the schedule, the $150 GGWF Mystery Closer brings $5 million in guarantees to the mid-stakes bracket, while the $55 World Festival Classic has over $2 million in the pot for players working their way up. For players managing their bankroll across a long series, our guide to bankroll management for tournament players is worth a read before the festival kicks off.
$3 Million in Leaderboard Prizes
Individual tournament results are only part of the picture. GGPoker is running a $3 million leaderboard contest alongside the main schedule, distributing the prizes to players who perform most consistently across the duration of the festival. The leaderboard is split by tier, keeping the competition real at every level:
- Low tier – $300,000
- Medium tier – $700,000
- High tier – $1,000,000
- Super tier – $1,000,000
Every cash earns points. The players who show up day after day and run deep consistently will find additional money waiting at the end of the festival. It rewards volume and results simultaneously, which, in a schedule this large, means there are multiple paths to a meaningful reward.
The GG Cash Game Festival
GG World Festival is built around tournaments, but GGPoker knows that a large portion of its player base would rather spend five weeks at a cash game table than grinding multi-hour tournament fields. Running concurrently with the main series is the GG Cash Game Festival, a dedicated celebration for cash game players running May 4 through June 7.
The centerpiece is a Weekly $250,000 Leaderboard, stacked on top of the Daily Cash Game Leaderboards that already run year-round on the platform. Just like the daily version, the weekly leaderboard is divided across different games and stakes, so a player grinding $0.25/$0.50 No-Limit is competing in a separate pool from the high-stakes regulars. The prizes go to the strongest performers at your level, not just the biggest spenders at the highest tables. Every cash game player gets a genuine shot at a meaningful bonus during the five weeks of festival season.
If you have been curious about cash games but have mostly played tournaments, this is a great time to explore the format. Our beginner’s guide to cash games covers everything you need to get started.
The Biggest Moment in Online Poker History
Step back for a moment and look at what is actually happening here. A single poker series. $300 million guaranteed. Five weeks of action. Four buy-in tiers from $3 to $10,000. Forty tournaments with at least $1 million in the pot. Three events each carrying $10 million in guarantees. A $3 million leaderboard running in parallel. And a full cash game festival stacked on top for players who prefer a different format entirely.
GGPoker Global Ambassador Daniel Negreanu put it simply: “Whether you’re playing a $3 Low Tier tournament or the $10K GGMillion$ Main Event, you’re part of the biggest thing to ever happen in online poker.”
GG World Festival 2026 is not just the biggest edition of this series. It is the biggest guaranteed online poker series that has ever existed. GGPoker starts dealing on May 3. Now you know what you are sitting down to.
GG World Festival: Tournament Results and Updates
As the festival unfolds, this page will serve as the central hub for results, recaps, and highlights from across the schedule. Check back throughout the five weeks for coverage of every major event, from the opening weekend through the GGMillion$ Main Event and beyond.
About the Author: Shawn A. has been writing and editing in the online gaming industry since 2007, reporting live from the WSOP Main Event and conducting interviews with professional players. An active poker player, he combines industry expertise with firsthand knowledge of the games he covers. He currently serves as Global Head of Copywriting at NSUS Group, overseeing brand voice and content strategy across GGPoker and GGVegas.
