GGPoker has set a new record for the largest overlay in an online poker tournament, as the $150 6th Anniversary GGMasters fell nearly $1.8 million short of covering their $10 million guarantee.
The world’s largest poker site has pipped PokerBaazi and PokerStars for the largest in online poker history. The $150 tournament also created the third-largest overlay in poker history overall, falling about $700,000 short of the 2014 $5,300 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open. Their $2.5 million in overlay is a record that hasn’t been touched in nearly 12 years.
Not GGPoker’s first rodeo
This is the second consecutive year that the GGMasters Anniversary edition failed to meet its guarantee. In 2025, the $5 million 5th Anniversary GGMasters tournament fell $100,000 short. However, it was cancelled on Day 2 after the site experienced serious technical issues.
This year, the tournament brought in 59,480 entries total, falling well short of the 72,464 entries required to cover the massive guarantee. Players had seven chances to buy into Day 1, with three flights on February 1st, three on February 8th, and a Last Chance flight on Monday, February 9th. Each flight was a freezeout, though players could enter as many flights as they wanted.
The official overlay, as reported by GGPoker, is $1,791,760.
Largest overlays in poker history
The previous online poker overlay record belonged to PokerBaazi, a poker website based in India.
PokerBaazi offered a 25 Crore guarantee (about $3 million) for a tournament called the GOAT in 2024, which ran at a price point of roughly $120. That tournament failed to even register half of the required entries needed to cover the guarantee, fueling an overlay of about $1.4 million.
PokerStars held the online poker overlay record for four years, after their $109 “The Big Blowout” tournament fell way short, giving players an extraordinary 25% overlay to the tune of $1.23 million.
| 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 |
| 2026 | GGPoker $150 GGMasters | $10 million | $1.791 million |
| 2024 | $120 PokerBaazi GOAT | 25 Crore ($2.975 million) | $1.4 million |
| 2020 | PokerStars $109 The Big BLowout | $5 million | $1.23 million |
Huge prizes up for grabs
From a field of 59,480 entries, only the final table of nine will play for all the marbles. All six players have guaranteed themselves a six-figure score of $110,430.54 and are playing for over $1.1 million.
While this $1.1 million score is impressive, British pro Archie Seaton bagged two of the top-three bounties in last week’s $2,650 ACR Poker Venom Mystery Bounty tournament. He ended up chopping the tournament three ways, winning $1,240,310 after crushing the 3,673-entry field.
Of course, with a buy-in nearly 18 times less and navigating a field that’s over 16 times larger, winning the $150 6th Anniversary GGMasters would certainly rank as a much larger achievement.
| Place | Prize |
| 1st | $1,108,712.88 |
| 2nd | $826,941.95 |
| 3rd | $620,875.53 |
| 4th | $465,597.00 |
| 5th | $349,155.18 |
| 6th | $261,836.19 |
| 7th | $196,355.61 |
| 8th | $147,252.60 |
| 9th | $110,430.54 |
GGPoker $150 6th Anniversary GGMasters final table
Four of the nine players who have reached the final table are of Brazilian descent. Five other nationalities are represented, with players from Norway, Croatia, Russia, Ireland, and China involved.
Ramon Kropmanns, a highly-decorated online pro with over $3 million in earnings on GGPoker alone, leads the final table with nearly 86 big blinds.
| Place | Name | Country | Big Blinds |
| 1 | Ramon Kropmanns | Brazil | 85.9 |
| 2 | modalrealism | Norway | 72.8 |
| 3 | Au!Au!Au!In! | Brazil | 54.5 |
| 4 | CheeDDou | Brazil | 49 |
| 5 | stip4822 | Croatia | 28.3 |
| 6 | dodge_river | Russia | 26.7 |
| 7 | TuttiFrutti3 | Brazil | 25.1 |
| 8 | deuceswild | Ireland | 16.6 |
| 9 | fish202511 | China | 10.5 |
