Global Poker Review

Global Poker, like any online poker site, has done its best to maintain a healthy traffic volume. In its half decade of operation, the site has managed to break into the top 5 most heavily trafficked online poker sites.

This could be due to the fact that a large portion of Pot-Limit Omaha players are participating in games at the site. Usually, Texas Hold’em is the primary draw for a poker platform, but the number of PLO fans almost equals those playing Texas Hold’em ring games.

The site does regularly pass 500 participants in its biggest events. On average, the tournaments attract between 50-300 players, depending upon the day and time they are occurring. For the most part though, most events bring in between 70-120 participants.

So, what sort of games are you able to access at GP?

No Limit Hold’em cash tables exist up to the Sweeps Coins 10/20 level, with six-max and nine-player tables available, although full Sweeps Coins 5/10 cash games are also accessible in the Omaha range.

Limit Hold’em used to be a part of the Global Poker site, although it did not attract the number of ring game players that was hoped. Recently all FLHE tables were subsequently removed from availability.

Crazy Pineapple games were then introduced a little later on in 2018, operating in a similar way to Texas Hold’em. However, there are three hole cards dealt out to each player instead of two. As with Limit Hold’em though, it did not experience such an upsurge of players wanting to try it out and continue playing. Within due course, it was also eliminated from the lobby due to the lack of participation.

Surge poker – a sort of fast-fold variant – was also introduced to the network at the end of 2019. All of these were NLHE options, but it disappeared from the client by May 2020. And despite Global Poker insisting that it would return, that has not come to fruition.

Now, it continues on with providing big-bet games with various buy-ins that often come with no fixed limits. Only on occasion can you find those that utilize the fixed limit rules.

Global Poker does not really have much leeway when it comes to providing rewards to its players. This is why you will not find bonus offers, promotions and other campaigns that you can earn perks from at the poker site. Again, the regulation that it has to adhere to from the Malta Gaming Authority strictly forbids it from providing promotional rewards.

Instead, what you do have the possibility of accessing is the range of tournaments. The majority of the promotions are associated with the challenges system in place. So, by completing certain tasks as Global Poker, you can receive rewards. The rewards themselves exist as entries into tournaments, including both freerolls and contests that would usually require a further buy-in to be paid. These challenges usually reset themselves on a daily or weekly basis. So, you need to continuously play in order to earn repeated awards.

Special deals may be introduced occasionally which award free Sweeps Coins, freeroll tickets and sometimes social media promotions come into play, too. However, these offers remain quite short-lived, with scant opportunities available at all other times of the year.