ClubGG Poker Review (2024) | All-inclusive analysis (2024)

GGPoker dropped a giant news bomb at the end of January 2021 by announcing a standalone poker mobile app for private games online. To take on popular poker apps like Poker Bros, Pokerrrr 2 and X-Poker, they publised a new product called ClubGG Poker. For industry experts, this move into the social poker app market is not such a big surprise. After all, while GG Network is popular almost everywhere in the world, there are certain countries and jurisdictions wherelicensed online poker roomsare not going to be available for a long time. The new app is available for download in both the App Store and Google Play Store. The options of starting or joining a club is open for anyone who wishes to play on ClubGG Poker app.

If you’ve played on GGPoker mobile app, you will find ClubGG Poker room to run on pretty much a similar engine. We played Texas Hold ’em, 4-card & 5-card Pot-Limit Omaha during our testing of the mobile poker software. If you had to describe the app, our best bet would be social poker. The app is full of cool elements like emojis, a smooth bet slider, and a visually crisp hand history feature. We used Samsung Galaxy S10 and iPhone 12 as testing devices, on both of which the ClubGG Poker app was running very smoothly.

The app has become somewhat popular among Youtube poker streamers and their audiences. However, we still find the traffic and action better on other mobile poker apps. That’s why we opened a player waitlist of ClubGG here at Beasts of Poker for those of you who want to get access to the games as soon as there are big enough clubs and unions for regular midstakes games to run. Our ClubGG Poker review will be updated on a consistent basis quickly once we see that the action is sufficient to offer clubs for our players.

Let’s have a quick look at the most essential features of ClubGG that have been released so far:

According to GGPoker’s Head of Marketing Operations Paul Burke, ClubGG is introduced to the poker market to fill in the home game feature gap lacking in the GGPoker app. While the exact ClubGG operation model’s information is yet to be released, we predict the operating model will be a decentralized one similar to other play money poker apps. This would mean that unions consisting of poker clubs run the games. There are already functions in place that allow you to create a club and search for unions, so this theory makes perfect sense and is logical when considering the purpose of the app: To offer a home game experience on your mobile phone.

That being said, the ClubGG Poker app’s role is to provide the platform for playing, not to offer real money poker services. Opening and hosting cash games tables & poker tournaments will be the responsibility of ClubGG poker clubs and unions.

Here’s a quick video withLára Neacy explaining the concept and how you can quality to live events in the US by playing on ClubGG:

• The world’s biggest poker network backing & promoting ClubGG Poker
• Access to markets where traditional online poker rooms cannot operate
• A genuinely world-class mobile software packed with excellent social features
• A range of popular poker games like Texas Holdem, Pot-Limit Omaha, 6+ Holdem, and OFC available

The poker experience offered by the ClubGG app is nothing short of remarkable. You have the hand history review, emojis, and other elements developed by NSUS Ltd, the private company behind GG Network and GGPoker. The gameplay and animations are very smooth as you would expect from all products of GGPoker. We didn’t find too many flaws during our testing – perhaps the only thing that might be slightly annoying is the placement of emoji animations, as they can cover your hole cards a bit – at least if you use them a lot!

We have good news for high volume players: You can use the multi-table feature to simultaneously play up to 4 tables. Swiping between tables is super fast, and the timer stands out clearly from the table background. Buttons and sliders for table actions like checking, betting, or raising? You guessed it: they’re carefully designed and skillfully implemented.

The game formats available on ClubGG during the Beta phase are No-Limit Hold ’em and Pot-Limit Omaha. Besides NLHE and PLO, 6+ and OFC (Open Face Chinese) will be added soon. This is in line with the games available on GG Network. As PLO5 is a trendy game on mobile poker apps, we predict this format will be made available shortly as well.

We expect an extensive range of stakes to be available on ClubGG once the first unions are formed. Make sure to check out updates on our ClubGG review for the most up to date information on stakes.