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GGPoker Ontario Festival 2025 Packs A CAD 6 Million Prize Pool

Mrinal Gujare

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Last updated: 13 May 2025

Mrinal Gujare 13 May 2025

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GGPoker Ontario Festival 2025
Prize pool worth CAD 6 Million across 700 events

GGPoker Ontario’s biggest online series features a record prize pool of CAD 6 million, nearly 700 tournaments, and a structured leaderboard system across all tiers.

The latest edition of the GGPoker Ontario Festival has officially begun, marking the largest online poker tournament series in the province’s regulated market to date.

Running until June 10, the series features a guaranteed prize pool of CAD 6 million. Players can grind across 700 tournaments with GGPoker Ontario’s latest series.

The festival maintains its three-tier structure, segmenting events into Low, Medium, and High buy-in levels.

Buy-in Structure and Highlights

Low Tier: Buy-ins between CAD 3 and CAD 25. This category includes the CAD 5 Ontario Mini MILLION$, with guarantees up to CAD 20,000.

Medium Tier: Buy-ins ranging from CAD 25 to CAD 150. Notable events include the CAD 50 Ontario MILLION$ Mini Main, offering a CAD 100,000 prize pool.

High Tier: Events priced above CAD 150. The CAD1,500 GG Ontario Championship leads this tier with a CAD 200,000 guarantee.

Each tier hosts 215 events and includes a dedicated leaderboard, awarding CAD 25,000 in prizes per tier. This brings the total leaderboard prize allocation to CAD 75,000.

Featured Events and Formats

Eight events within the series carry six-figure guarantees. Four tournaments, including the flagship CAD 1,500 GG Ontario Championship, as well as the CAD 525 Mega Mystery MILLION$, CAD500 Ontario MILLION$ High Roller, and CAD 210 Ontario MILLION$ Closer, each guarantee CAD 200,000.

An additional four tournaments guarantee CAD 100,000:

CAD 50 Ontario MILLION$ Festival
CAD 52.50 Mystery MILLION$
CAD 1,050 GGMasters Festival High Roller
CAD 50 Ontario MILLION$ Festival Edition

These events adopt a phased format with multiple Day 1 flights. Other key tournaments include:

CAD 150 GGMasters Edition – CAD 50,000 GTD
CAD 150 GGMasters Grand Opening – CAD 60,000 GTD
Weekly CAD 105 Sunday Bounty King Ontario – CAD 50,000 GTD

Format Variety and Thematic Events

Tournament formats include Progressive Knockouts (PKOs), Mystery Bounty events, traditional freezeouts, turbos, hypers, and games in both Hold’em and Omaha.

Several event names reflect regional themes such as CN Tower Sunday Superstack, Maple Leaf Madness, Heater CN Rail Edition, and Timmy H’s.

The GGPoker Ontario festival has shown consistent year-over-year growth. In 2023, it offered C$3 million in guarantees. The 2025 edition has doubled that amount, along with boosting the number of events on schedule.

In parallel, the global GGPoker platform is running the GGPoker World Festival, a separate promotion with a guaranteed prize pool of $250 million across more than 1,600 events, targeting the international market and the rest of Canada.

To get started with GGPoker’s GG Ontario Festival, players can sign up on the platform using the GGPoker Ontario promo code NEWBONUS and receive welcome offers.