Don't think much of GG Poker so far

thedarkman · Mar 7, 2026

After signing up with GG Poker I played the CardsChat freeroll and the daily freeroll yesterday. I came nowhere in the CardsChat but won a ticket in the other one - along with 1,999 other players. Not sure that means anything but leaving that aside, the interface is confusing, the background music is annoying and for some reason when you are dealt cards you have to "open" them. Doubt I will get used to this.

Andyreas · Mar 7, 2026

thedarkman said:
the background music is annoying and for some reason when you are dealt cards you have to "open" them. Doubt I will get used to this.

You can customise most of those settings and remove a lot of the redundant animations

Mario7 · Mar 7, 2026

thedarkman said:
After signing up with GG Poker I played the CardsChat freeroll and the daily freeroll yesterday. I came nowhere in the CardsChat but won a ticket in the other one - along with 1,999 other players. Not sure that means anything but leaving that aside, the interface is confusing, the background music is annoying and for some reason when you are dealt cards you have to "open" them. Doubt I will get used to this.

1st thing I do after logging on is switching off the background music

As for cards - it's a setup, you can change it permanently to auto-open.
I recommend 3 freebies-promos:
1. Honemoon - absolutely the best promo in the market for newcomers - you can easily get $ 100-200 during the 1st month with not much effort
2. Daily freebie
3. wsop Express

monkeytilter · Mar 7, 2026

Turn the music off..

hardongear · Mar 7, 2026

As Andyreas and others have said above you go turn a lot of that crap off or change the settings on it. If you're going to stick around any length of time I'd go into the settings and change so things.

Cheers!!!

thedarkman · Mar 7, 2026

hardongear said:
As Andyreas and others have said above you go turn a lot of that crap off or change the settings on it. If you're going to stick around any length of time I'd go into the settings and change so things.

Cheers!!!

I stand corrected. I came nowhere in the CardsChat freeroll but entered the Telegram freeroll at level 11 and ended up winning $5.38 with incredible cards. Chip and a chair.

puzzlefish · Mar 7, 2026

thedarkman · Mar 8, 2026

hardongear said:
As Andyreas and others have said above you go turn a lot of that crap off or change the settings on it. If you're going to stick around any length of time I'd go into the settings and change so things.

Cheers!!!

Thanks, think I've sorted that card squeeze nonsense. When I cashed yesterday I was awarded cash dollars which appear to be different from dollars dollars. Any idea what that means?

G0930 · Mar 8, 2026

thedarkman said:
After signing up with GG Poker I played the CardsChat freeroll and the daily freeroll yesterday. I came nowhere in the CardsChat but won a ticket in the other one - along with 1,999 other players. Not sure that means

Means you won smth lol. Look in your account how you can use it

thedarkman said:
anything but leaving that aside, the interface is confusing, the background music is annoying and for some reason when you are dealt cards you have to "open" them. Doubt I will get used to this.

You can turn off music in the settings
Also the card squeeze can be turned off

Silversurfer99 · Mar 8, 2026

Yea , you can customize anything for your pleasure..and you probably won a ticket to the saturday 100k Freeroll, which is great!
IT offers like 5k for first place? And you can win many entrances as it`s a rebuy tournament during the late registration..
Sure GG has it`s downsides, but they`re giving away free money like noone else...just recently i won a so-called "BadBeat Jackpot", when losing with quads to a straight flush on the river...so i won over 100 Dollars in a single Hand in the micro Stakes!
The dude with the Straight Flush won about 35$..
So if you have any skill in the game (unlike me) you can build a bankroll out of nothing!
I added up all my winnings from the daily Free ticket over one year and it was about 100$ as well...

Silversurfer99 · Mar 8, 2026

thedarkman said:
Thanks, think I've sorted that card squeeze nonsense. When I cashed yesterday I was awarded cash dollars which appear to be different from dollars dollars. Any idea what that means?

It`s a currency you can only use in Cash games...transfer them to real money through playing the cash games: Hold em, PLO or Rush and Cash..

steve01991 · Mar 8, 2026

what am i doing wrong ? i cannot bring up the freerolls from CC on gg poker. Anyone have any ideas?

steve01991 · Mar 8, 2026

could it be because i am from Ontario Canada?

Dimidrol2 · Mar 8, 2026

Not only do you not like it, but there are thousands of players there, and I sometimes play there, but I don't like playing there to be honest.

SpanRmonka · Mar 8, 2026

steve01991 said:
could it be because i am from Ontario Canada?

I would assume that this is likely the case

Rosylly · Mar 8, 2026

I think you’re just way too old

Jokes aside, what’s your favourite poker room of all times in terms of interface etc?

For me it’s old Pokerstars for sure

burba · Mar 8, 2026

I like playing on GG. I made about $400 within one year. You get a free daily ticket for Spin & Gold or Mystery Bounty Royal worth $0.25, and a $1 ticket once per week, and a daily ticket for WSO Express stage 0. During my honeymoon month, I made around $200.
There are many more players than on 888, and I feel like I’m winning more when playing micro‑stakes cash games. By some time I got used the their GUI.
Depending on the promotion game (freeroll) you may end up winning just C$ - which you can only use for cash games or T$ which you can only use for tournaments to turn them into USD to withdraw. But that's not much of an issue for me.

With 888, I’m still struggling because they haven’t accepted any of the documents I sent for address verification. Even the support on Reddit couldn’t help.
So at this point, I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to withdraw from them, which is really frustrating. On Reddit I read from someone which had 45kUSD owing 888 to him but he also cannot withdraw. Verification on GG, by comparison, was no problem.

Poker Orifice · Mar 8, 2026

fixed your avatar for ya

machinm19 · Mar 8, 2026

The Cardschat tournaments on GG poker are very competitive and not easy to cash in but if you stick at I am sure you could get some good results in the future.

TheniT · Mar 9, 2026

In my opinion, GGpoker is a good poker room that has a lot of features, for those just starting out it may seem a little confusing, but over time you will get used to it.

moraeskvmi · Mar 9, 2026

So customize it the way you want.

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