GGPoker was forced to put up the biggest overlay in online poker history this week after one of its marquee events missed the $10 million guarantee by thousands of entries.
The world’s largest online poker site celebrated the sixth anniversary of its GGMasters by guaranteeing a $10 million prize pool for the unbelievably low buy-in of $150.
With only seven starting flights, players knew from the start that an overlay was possible, and as registration closed on Monday, it came 12,984 entries — $1,791,760 — short.
Being a freezeout with no rebuys is one of the reasons it didn’t reach the 8,700 entry mark needed, although players could enter multiple flights if they didn’t make it to Day 2.
Of the $150 buy-in, $12 went to GGPoker with the rest going to the prize pool. The $713,000 in tournament fees still meant GGPoker had to put up more than $1 million to meet the $10 million guarantee.
Before this week, the 2024 PokerBaazi GOAT overlay of $1.4 million and the 2020 PokerStars Big Blowout’s overlay of $1.2 million were the two largest overlays in online poker history.
Players in the United States who play in one of the few states that regulate online poker can only salivate at the huge guarantees GGPoker, PokerStars and others are able to generate by operating in global markets.
The largest overlays in poker history happened at the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open ($2.5 million) and at the 2023 World Poker Tour Championship ($2.4 million).
Top 5 Biggest Overlays in Poker History
| Date | Event | Guarantee | Overlay |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $5,300 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open | $10 million | $2.5 million |
| 2023 | $10,400 WPT World Championship | $40 million | $2.4 million |
| 2025 | GGPoker $150 GGMasters | $10 million | $1.791 million |
| 2024 | $120 PokerBaazi GOAT | $2.975 million | $1.4 million |
| 2020 | PokerStars $109 The Big BLowout | $5 million | $1.23 million |
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