How to play the GG Spring Festival

Geoff Fisk
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Posted on: March 29, 2021 6:02 pm EDT

GGPoker announces online festival that runs against PokerStars SCOOP April 4-25

The battle for online poker market share between the world’s top operators continues in April, with both GGPoker and PokerStars offering massive tournament festivals.

Fresh off the release of the PokerStars SCOOP 2021 schedule, GGPoker announced a competing spring tournament series Monday. The GG Spring Festival (GGSF) plays out April 4-25 at GGPoker, the same exact dates of the PokerStars SCOOP 2021.

The GG Spring Festival includes 110 events, with each offering a low, medium, and high buy-in tier. That three-tier format should look familiar to online players, as it’s the same structure used by PokerStars for all of its Championship of Online Poker series.

Let’s take a glance at what players can look forward to at GGPoker for the GG Spring Series:

GG Spring Festival 2021 notable events

TournamentBuy-inStart DateMultiple Day 1 Flights?Guarantee
GGSF M-03: Bounty Hunters Main Event$525April 4No$1,000,000
GGSF M-38: Bounty Hunters Main Event$525April 11No$1,000,000
GGSF H-39: GGMasters High Roller Online$1,050April 11No$1,000,000
GGSF ME-H: GGSF Super MILLION$ ONLINE$10,300April 11Yes; April 11, April 13, April 15, April 17, April 18$10,000,000
GGSF Main Event-H ONLINE (No-Limit Hold’em)$1,500April 25No$10,000,000
GGSF Main Event-H ONLINE (No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha)$1,500April 25No$2,000,000

GG Spring Series Highlights

The 330 total tournaments across the three-week series offer a combined $150 million in prize money. The GG Spring Series offers a slew of high-stakes events, but plenty of more affordable buy-ins can also be found across the festival schedule.

A pair of $10 million guaranteed events highlight the GG Spring Series slate. The first of those begins April 11, as the GGSF Super MILLION$ ONLINE kicks off with the first of five Day 1 flights.

The $10,300 buy-in event will undoubtedly draw a field of poker’s toughest high rollers, as per usual in the weekly Super MILLION$ High Roller event.

The other $10 million guarantee comes in the GGSF Main Event-H ONLINE (No-Limit Hold’em) event. That tournament offers a $1,500 buy-in and kicks off April 25.

The buy-ins for the GG Spring festival range from the low stakes ($30) to the high rollers ($25,500), with something for just about every bankroll range in between.

How to play at GGPoker

GGPoker operates as one of the world’s largest online poker sites. Players in the U.S., unfortunately, can’t legally access GGPoker, but the GG Spring Festival is open to players in many areas of the world.

To find out if GGPoker is offered in your country, navigate to the GGPoker homepage. If you’re outside of the network’s legal jurisdictions, a notice will immediately pop up when you click on the homepage.

For those that are in areas that legally offer GGPoker, you can click the “Download Now” tab to download the GGPoker software to your device.

Once downloaded, you can use the horizontal bar menu at the top of the main lobby to filter for GG Spring Festival events. When you click on any tournament on the menu at GGPoker, a menu pop-up to the right displays expanded event details.

Want to brush up on the rules of poker before you play the GG Spring Festival? Check out our poker hands ranking chart.

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