GGPoker Ontario Review: WSOP Events and a Published 5% Rake

Is GGPoker Legal in Ontario?

Yes. GGPoker is on the iGaming Ontario register at ggpoker.ca, approved for both poker and casino. The operator is NSUS Limited, registered with the AGCO under number OPIG1231707. GGPoker.ca launched in 2022 and serves Ontario only. You must be 19 or older and physically in the province to play for real money. More on how the market works in our guide to Ontario’s online gambling rules.

GGPoker.ca is not GGPoker.com

The site you reach from Ontario is a separate, Ontario-only room. It runs the same software as the global GGPoker network, so the tables, Smart HUD and PokerCraft look and work the same. The player pool is different, though. Ontario is ring-fenced: you only sit with other players located in the province. Every amount in the lobby, from blinds to guarantees, is in Canadian dollars.

That matters for what you can play. Big international fields, round-the-clock high-stakes cash games and the rarer formats depend on traffic that one province cannot always supply. Ontario is still large enough for a full WSOP bracelet series and festivals with seven-figure guarantees, as the tournament section below shows.

Will Ontario share player pools with the rest of the world?

Not yet. In November 2025 the Ontario Court of Appeal found that the province could legally allow its players to join peer-to-peer games, poker included, with players outside Canada. That decision is under appeal at the Supreme Court of Canada, which heard the case on 7 October 2026 and reserved judgment, and nothing changes until the case is settled and Ontario chooses to act. Alberta opened its own regulated market in July 2026, and the two provinces have discussed sharing poker liquidity. No shared pool is live today, and no date has been set.

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• 5% rake, caps published
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GGPoker Ontario Poker Games

The Ontario lobby has four families of games. Cash games come in No Limit Hold’em (six-max), Pot Limit Omaha and five-card PLO. Tournaments run every day. Then there are two formats built by GGPoker itself: All-In or Fold and Spin & Gold. Play-money tables for Hold’em, PLO, All-In or Fold and Spin & Gold sit alongside the real-money ones. Their chips have no cash value and cannot be used anywhere else.

Cash games

Hold’em runs from $0.01/$0.02 to $25/$50, with default buy-ins from 50 cents to $1,000. PLO goes from $0.01/$0.02 to $10/$20 and PLO-5 to $5/$10. Each game uses one standard 52-card deck, shuffled after every hand. If your connection drops, chips you have already put in the pot stay in play. The client adds straddles, a table-move button and Card Squeeze, the slow reveal of your hole cards.

All-In or Fold

All-In or Fold strips Hold’em down to one decision. You sit down with eight big blinds, and on every hand you either shove or fold. It is fast and very simple to learn, and the margin between good and bad decisions is narrow. Two optional side features, the All-In or Fold Jackpot and All-In Fortune, carry their own fees on top of the rake. The table on the operator’s page lists them before you sit down.

Spin & Gold: read the odds before you spin

Spin & Gold is a three-handed hyper-turbo whose prize pool is set by a wheel before the first card. The operator publishes the full distribution, which most rooms do not. Here it is for the 3-max tables:

The headline multiplier comes up once in two million games. The two smallest wheels, x2 and x3, are 92.5% of all games. In those, the winner takes everything and the other two players get nothing. Treat Spin & Gold as a fast, high-variance sit & go, not as a lottery ticket. The operator also sells insurance at the price of the buy-in, which refunds you if the wheel lands on x2.

GGPoker Ontario: WSOP bracelets and published rake caps
Operated by NSUS Limited under AGCO registration OPIG1231707. 19+, Ontario only.

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GGPoker Rake in Ontario

Rake is what the room keeps from each pot, and over a year it costs a regular player more than anything else. GGPoker publishes the full schedule for Ontario. In every cash game the rate is 5%. The cap depends on the stake and on how many players were dealt in. A short-handed pot is capped lower than a full one.

No Limit Hold’em rake caps (6-max)