GGPoker is not averse to slapping huge guarantees on its online events, but things didn’t go to plan this week.
The GGMasters 6th Anniversary tournament came with a $10 million guarantee and fell $1,791,760 short, giving it a record GGPoker wouldn't have wanted – the largest overlay in online poker history.
It was always an ambitious target. GGPoker had slapped $10 million guarantees on the Anniversary events in 2023 and 2024, and missed both.
The 2026 Anniversary special had seven Day 1 flights, with each one being run as a freezeout – meaning players could enter multiple flights. Despite this, GGPoker couldn't find the 72,464 entries it needed to make the monster guarantee.
When late registration ended on the final Day 1 flight, the ticker had reached 59,480. GGPoker actually recouped $8,922,000 (the buy-in was $138 + $12), but the online overlay record is now set officially at $1,791,760.
Brazil leads the way
The tournament has now played down to the final table, with Brazilian Ramon Kropmanns leading the way. He's already recorded over $3M in winnings on GGPoker.
The underdog story? Ireland’s ‘dueceswild’, with the second shortest stack of the nine, has just over $1K in prior winnings. The top prize here is 1,000x that – $1,108,712. All nine players are already guaranteed $110,430.
Action restarts at 12pm ET on Tuesday, February 10.
GGMasters 6th Anniversary final table
- Ramon Kropmanns (Brazil) – 137,514,607
- modalrealism (Norway) – 116,522,510
- Au!Au!Au!In! (Brazil) – 87,182,799
- CheeDDou (Brazil) – 78,467,298
- stip4822 (Croatia) – 45,206,024
- dodge_river (Russia) – 42,676,828
- TuttiFrutti3 (Brazil) – 40,084,655
- dueceswild (Ireland) – 26,618,444
- fish202511 (China) – 16,876,954
GGMasters beats the GOAT
The previous biggest overlay online was the PokerBaazi GOAT event in 2024, which guaranteed $2,975,000 and ended up overlaying $1,400,000.
The biggest live overlay in history remains the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO), a $5,300 buy-in with a $10 million guarantee. The event saw a decrease of 37 percent in entries from the previous year, leaving the casino on the hook for $2,505,000 worth of overlay.
The GGMasters launched six years ago with a $300K guarantee. In 2023 and 2024, the Anniversary editions were branded 'Overlay Editions' and featured $10 million guarantees.
In 2025, GGPoker switched to a pure freezeout format with a reduced $5 million guarantee, but it was cancelled on Day 2 due to technical issues, with full refunds issued to all players.
5 biggest overlays in poker history (live and online)
- 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open
Buy-in: $5,300
Guarantee: $10 million
Overlay: $2,505,000 - 2023 WPT World Championship
Buy-in: $10,300
Guarantee: $40 million
Overlay: $2,400,000 - 2026 GGMasters 6th Anniversary (online)
Buy-in: $150
Guarantee: $10 million
Overlay: $1,791,760 - 2024 PokerBaazi GOAT (online)
Buy-in: $120
Guarantee: $2,975,000
Overlay: $1,400,000 - 2020 PokerStars The Big Blowout (online)
Buy-in: $109
Guarantee: $5 million
Overlay: $1,230,000
