Private-Club Poker Glossary — The Vocabulary That Most Sites Leave Unexplained

A club is a single game lobby — a private poker room inside the platform with its own tables, rake, and manager. A union is a consortium of clubs operating under shared rules, security practices, and typically a shared chip-value convention. Players usually join individual clubs; unions operate at the tier above, pooling bad-beat jackpots, enforcing anti-cheat, and setting agent terms. On ClubGG, the three major unions Deep Poker represents are Massiv, TMT, and TiNY.

Yes. A super-agent operates at a higher tier than regular agents, negotiating directly with union leadership and running downstream sub-agents. The commission structure in most super-agent models trickles up from player → sub-agent → super-agent. Deep Poker uses a flatter structure — direct referrals with a 20%–40% active-referral commission — because the layered downline model creates incentive distortions that hurt end-player rakeback.

No. The chip-value convention is set at the union level. Most US-focused unions (Massiv, TMT) do use 1 chip = $1 USD. TiNY Poker Union uses 1 chip = 1 TWD (roughly $0.032 USD). JackpotClub, an Iran-rooted club, uses 1 chip = 100,000 Toman. Always confirm the convention before sitting at a table — misreading it is one of the most common first-session mistakes.

Rakeback is what you earn back on your own play — a percentage of the rake your hands generated. Commission (in the Deep Poker context) is what you earn on referred players' rake — 20% to 40% depending on how many active referrals you have in a given week. Same underlying mechanism (rake that comes back to someone), but rakeback goes to the player who played; commission goes to the referrer of that player.

No — Fish Buffet was retired on January 30, 2026 and replaced by Ocean Rewards on GGPoker. Any current documentation referring to Fish Buffet is outdated; the current programme uses Tide Points, GEMs, and an 8-tier structure from Fish (16%) to Shark (80%). If you see Fish Buffet mentioned as current, the source has gone stale.

A skin is a branded instance of a shared poker network. GG Network — which powers GGPoker — has multiple skins like Natural8, BetKings, and PokerOK. All skins share the same player liquidity but present different branding, promotions, and fiat ramps to different markets. Club-based apps (ClubGG, PPPoker, PokerBros) don't typically use skins; each platform operates as a single brand.

Formally no, effectively sometimes yes. Platforms like ClubGG describe themselves as social-gaming apps because the platform layer runs on virtual chips with no real-money exchange. Real-money flow happens at the agent layer on top — handled by agents, affiliate platforms, or published-platform operators like Deep Poker. The platform can honestly say it isn't a real-money operator; the tables on it can still be real-money tables, mediated by the agent layer.

A policy requiring the same payment method for deposit and withdrawal — if you deposited via Visa, you withdraw to the same Visa. GGPoker and most licensed operators enforce this as an anti-money-laundering measure. Deep Poker does not enforce closed-loop — you pick your withdrawal coin and network independently from how you deposited.

Chip-dumping is a specific form of collusion — the colluders deliberately lose chips to each other by overbetting weak hands, shipping the value to whichever account is convenient to withdraw from. Collusion is the broader category that also includes soft play (two colluders avoiding confrontation), explicit signaling, and same-IP account coordination. All are prohibited everywhere; chip-dumping is the hardest to catch at individual session level because each hand looks like ordinary bad play.

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Ghosting as a poker term specifically means a stronger player advising a weaker player's decisions in real time while the weaker player is the visible account. The term comes from the ghost being invisible to other players at the table — only the visible account is there in the platform UI. Prohibited across major online platforms because it breaks the one-player-per-account rule. Less common at recreational stakes; more common at high-stakes where the economics support paying a ghost.

Because private-club poker (ClubGG, PPPoker, PokerBros) has its own vocabulary that doesn't overlap with the strategy-focused terminology used on the main poker-glossary page. Terms like 'super-agent,' 'union,' 'chip-value convention,' 'FX skim,' and 'Ocean Rewards' are specific to the platform, agent-layer, and ecosystem side of poker — not the game itself. The regular poker glossary covers the game side; this one covers the ecosystem side.