Don't think much of GG Poker so far

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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.
 
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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
 
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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
 
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Turn the music off..
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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!!!
 
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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.
 
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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?
 
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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
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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:)
 
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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...
 
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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..
 
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what am i doing wrong ? i cannot bring up the freerolls from CC on gg poker. Anyone have any ideas?
 
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could it be because i am from Ontario Canada?
 
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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.
 
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steve01991 said:
could it be because i am from Ontario Canada?
I would assume that this is likely the case
 
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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
 
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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.
 
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fixed your avatar for ya

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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.
 
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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.
 
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So customize it the way you want.
 
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