Celebrate Paris 2024 with These Olympic Poker Promotions

The 2024 Olympics are more popular than ever, with the Paris opening ceremony drawing almost 29 million viewers worldwide. This is the highest number of viewers since the 2012 Olympics and the dip Covid caused in viewership for the 2021 games. 

Further, the overall estimated viewership for the Olympic Games is around two billion people. As such, we’re not surprised many poker rooms capitalised on the excitement. Several brands are offering themed promotions to embrace the Olympic spirit.

Most French and several international poker rooms provide Olympic-themed promotions. It’s common for poker rooms to celebrate significant sporting events with themed promotions, and this year is no different.

A forerunner in Olympic-themed promotions, 888poker was the first to run the ChampionChip Games from July 15th to 23rd. It’s a micro to low-stakes tournament with events named after traditional disciplines like karate and swimming. 

There were around 59 tournaments, some following Olympic themes like The Flame and Flags Parade. Overall, this championship placed around €500,000 on the line.

As an operator that almost always capitalises on significant sporting events, we’re not surprised to see its themed promotion. Its MTT Summer Olympics Series started on July 28th and will continue until August 5th. 

It has only two buy-in levels, €5 and €50, and an overall prize pool of €75,000. Players can participate in 16 Olympic-themed “Disciplines.” Further, winners receive freeroll tickets worth €5,000. This brand’s French room is also running a similar promotion.

This poker room is running the Global Games, which started on July 26th and will continue until August 11th. It’s structured like an online version of a Pentathlon, with players having to score points in five different leaderboards. 

The top 10 winners of these leaderboards will all receive prizes, but there’s also a combined leaderboard. The top winner of the combined leaderboard will net a $12,400 2024 WPT World Championship Passport. The five leaderboards include MTTs, PLO 4/5 cash games, Global Spins, Casino, and Sportsbook.

One notable poker room that’s decided not to join the craze is GGPoker. The site doesn’t have an Olympic-themed promotion. Instead, the poker room offers the usual promotions, like its $10 million July Giveaway, in a variety of promotions and events.

Instead, players can participate in the standard GGPoker tournaments. While the Bounty Hunter Series is in its last stretch, the Omaholics Series starts soon after and runs until the middle of August.

Some other poker rooms that offer Olympic-themed promotions are:

• PokerStars (Dot-com & Europe): July 22nd to August 11th - PokerStars Games
• Horizon Poker Network: July 26th to Agust August 11th - Poker Olympics
• Partypoker Europe: July 26th to Agust August 11th - The Medals

It’s time to become one of the contestants and embrace the spirit of this event. The multiple themed promotions available mean players can join the Olympic action online. However, if you want to take a break from the craze of this event, then GGPoker is there with its dependable July to August promotions.