ClubGG Club IDs: can you verify one?
You join a ClubGG club by typing a number into the app, and if you send chips to the wrong club there is no undo. So before you type it: can you check that a Club ID is the right one? We went looking for a way to, across every public source we could find.
Mostly, you cannot — and the reason is structural rather than anyone's fault. Of 9 public sources publishing ClubGG identifiers, exactly one publishes Club IDs for clubs it does not itself operate. Everything else lists only its own one or two clubs, or publishes no identifier at all.
First: three different numbers, often confused
Before any of the findings make sense, it is worth separating three things that public listings use almost interchangeably. Two sources can publish different numbers for the same brand and both be correct, simply because they are publishing different kinds of identifier.
| What | Identifies | Issued by | Changes when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Club ID | Identifies one club inside the ClubGG app. This is the number you type to find a club. | ClubGG, per club | A club is recreated, rebranded, or replaced — which happens without announcement. |
| Union | A group of clubs sharing a player pool and a jackpot. You do not join a union directly; you join a club that belongs to one. | Not something you type in | A club joins or leaves a union, changing your pool without your ID changing. |
| Referrer / Referral ID | Identifies the agent who introduced you, not the club. Two players in the same club can hold different referrer IDs and both be correct. | The agent | You change agent. It is not a property of the club at all. |
What we did
We collected every public source we could find that publishes ClubGG joining identifiers — third-party directories, agents publishing their own clubs, and unions' own websites. For each, we counted the Club IDs published and recorded the question that actually matters: does this source publish identifiers for clubs it does not itself operate?
That last column decides everything. A source listing only its own clubs is not a directory, it is a shop window — it can tell you about itself, but it cannot corroborate anybody else. Verification needs at least two sources covering the same club independently.
| Kind of publisher | Examined | Club IDs published | Covers clubs it doesn't run? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Third-party directoriesOnly one of the four publishes Club IDs at all. It carries almost every identifier in this survey, which makes it the sole broad source — and leaves nothing to check it against. | 4 | 80 | One of them |
| Agents publishing their own clubsOne or two clubs each, all their own. Useful if you are joining that agent; no help at all in checking anybody else's number. | 3 | 5 | No |
| Unions' and clubs' own websitesOnly one of the two publishes its own Club ID. The other runs a full site — schedule, promotions, a store, a support address — with no joining identifier anywhere on it. | 2 | 1 | No |
9 sources, 86 published Club ID strings in total, surveyed August 31, 2026.
We have not named the sources. Most of them are agents and directories competing with us, and publishing a list of them here would be advertising them from our own site — which is not something we are going to do, whatever the research convention says. The method above is specific enough to repeat without our list: search for ClubGG club listings, and apply the same test to whatever you find.
What we found
1. Nine public sources. One that can check anybody else.
Of the nine sources examined, exactly one publishes Club IDs for clubs it does not itself operate. Every other source either lists only its own one or two clubs, or publishes no identifier at all. A source that lists only its own inventory cannot corroborate anyone — so in practice there is no second opinion available on any Club ID.
How to check this yourself: For each source, count the Club IDs published and check whether any belongs to a club the publisher does not operate.
2. The broadest source cannot cross-check itself either.
The single broad source publishes across two pages carrying 48 and 32 Club IDs. They have two identifiers in common. The inventories are effectively separate lists rather than one list published twice, so even reading everything it publishes does not give you a second reading of the same club.
How to check this yourself: Extract every Club ID from both pages and intersect the two sets.
3. Most clubs do not publish their own ID.
Two unions in this survey have public sites of their own. One publishes its Club ID prominently. The other — a union routinely described as the largest on ClubGG — runs a full site with a schedule, promotions, a store and a support address, and publishes no joining identifier anywhere on it. If a club does not state its own ID, there is nothing authoritative to check any listing against.
How to check this yourself: Fetch each union's own site, where one exists, and search for a published Club ID.
4. Where an operator does publish one, it did not match the directory.
For the single brand where both an operator's own site and a broad listing publish a Club ID, the two numbers differ. Both are labelled “Club ID”. Nothing on either side lets a reader reconcile them — and the explanation may well be innocent, since one could be a union-level identifier and the other a club inside it. That ambiguity is the problem: you cannot tell which kind of number you are holding.
How to check this yourself: Compare the identifier on the operator's own site against the one the directory publishes for the same brand.
5. The identifiers are not even formatted consistently.
Referral identifiers appear in at least two different shapes — a hyphenated four-plus-four form and a plain seven-or-eight-digit form — on a single page. One Club ID appears twice on one page against two different club descriptions. Neither is necessarily an error, but both make it harder to tell what kind of number you are looking at.
How to check this yourself: Pattern-match referral identifiers across a single page and count distinct formats; count repeated Club IDs within one page.
What this is not
None of this is evidence that anyone is being dishonest, and it should not be read that way. Nobody is paid to maintain an accurate directory of other people's poker clubs. Listings get copied between sites, clubs change identifiers or close without telling anyone, and a page that was correct when it was written quietly stops being correct. The site that publishes the most identifiers here is doing more work than everyone else in this study combined, and it is the reason a landscape view exists at all.
The finding is about the shape of the ecosystem, not the character of the people in it: there is one source with broad coverage, no independent way to check it, and no convention about what the numbers even mean. That is a structural problem, and structural problems are fixed by better habits rather than by blaming anyone.
What to do instead
Get the ID from the party you are actually dealing with.
Not from a search result. Whoever is going to hold your chips should be the one telling you where to send them, because they are the one you can hold responsible if it is wrong.
Search it in the app and read the name back.
This is the only authoritative check available, and it takes seconds. The app returns the club the number actually belongs to. If the name does not match what you were told, stop — the check just worked.
Send a small amount first.
Test the whole path — deposit, play, withdraw — while the amount is small enough that being wrong is annoying rather than expensive.
Our guide to verifying a ClubGG agent covers the person rather than the number, and the patterns worth recognising covers what goes wrong when neither check is done.
What Deep publishes, and what it doesn't
Deep Poker publishes Club IDs for the 3 clubs it operates and for nothing else. That is not caution for its own sake — it is the conclusion of this study applied to ourselves. An identifier we cannot verify, published on a page that looks authoritative, is worse than no identifier at all, because it looks checkable when it is not.
The same rule shapes our union landscape and club directory: both cover clubs and unions we have no relationship with, and neither reproduces an identifier for any of them. You will find names, regions, formats and dated sources there, and the relationship stated plainly on every row.
Reproducing this
Each finding carries the procedure that produced it, and none of them depends on private data or on anything Deep Poker knows as an operator. Everything measured here is public and findable in a few searches — and it will drift, because the underlying pages change. If you repeat the survey and get different numbers, that is not a contradiction; it is the point.
We have deliberately not published the identifier values themselves. Printing a list of numbers we have just finished showing cannot be verified would hand you exactly the thing this page is warning you about.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a ClubGG Club ID?
It is the number that identifies one club inside the ClubGG app — the thing you type into the club search to find a specific room. It is not the same as a union, which is a group of clubs sharing a player pool, and it is not the same as a referrer ID, which identifies the agent who introduced you rather than the club itself. Those three get used interchangeably in public listings, which is where a lot of the confusion starts.
Can I verify a ClubGG Club ID before I join?
Not from public sources, in most cases — that is the finding of this study. Of nine public sources we examined, one publishes Club IDs for clubs it does not itself operate, so there is usually no second source to check a number against. What you can do is verify inside the app: search the ID, read the club name that comes back, and confirm it matches the club you were told about before you send anything.
Why doesn't Deep Poker publish other clubs' Club IDs?
Because we cannot verify them, and this study is why. An unverified identifier published on a trusted-looking page is worse than no identifier at all: it looks checkable when it is not. Deep publishes Club IDs for the three clubs it operates and for nothing else, and points you at the operator or agent you are actually dealing with for anything else.
Does a different referrer ID mean the club listing is wrong?
No, and this is the most common false alarm. A referrer ID identifies the agent who introduced you, not the club, so two players in the same club can hold different referrer IDs and both be entirely correct. Different Club IDs for the same club is the thing worth stopping over; different referrer IDs is the system working as designed.
What should I actually do before joining a club?
Get the ID from the party you are actually dealing with rather than from a search result, search it in the ClubGG app, and check that the club name returned matches what you were told. If the name does not match, stop — that is the check doing its job. Then send a small amount first, before you move a bankroll.
Join a club where the ID is published and verified
Deep Poker operates its own ClubGG clubs, publishes their Club IDs with the date each was last confirmed, and handles deposits, rakeback and withdrawals in one panel.
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