It was the largest player pool in Gundam Poker history, with 29 players competing for a $1,160 prize-pool. An anonymous player named, “Anonymouse” jumped to a quick chip lead taking the Fast-Break Bonus. However, S.Braswell after taking a major hit early, starting methodically building his stack moving up 20 positions (25th to 5th) earning the Chip-n-Chair bonus. As almost always happens on the bubble, Wetteland had to endure a horrible beat, getting her Aces cracked on the bubble.
However, some early big stacks (J.Thomas, StrueD and Heine) never let up and all ended up in the money, with the exception of L.Grayford, who had a big stack early… lost all but 5 Big Blinds right when the bubble was about to burst, but managed not only miss bubbling-out, but ended up in 2nd place.
But during the late stages it was the D.Heine show who amassed nearly 2x larger than the 2nd stack at one point, and seem to avoid running into a bad beat. J.Thomas, after knocking out M.Sudduth for the bounty, did not avoid a bad beat and got knocked out in 3rd. D.Strue took 4th place and S.Braswell (working is way from 25th) took 5th place. As always, the tournament grinder J.Meyers was in the money in 6th.
Heine’s victory in the large pool gave him an astounding 66 Gundam points and a $420 prize-pool.
Another battle was taking place for the Gundam Championship. With the large prize-pool it was possible for both Braswells, McClary and D.Shull to catch the current point leader (M.Sudduth). The 2nd place M.Braswell only needed to finish 8 spots ahead of Sudduth, while McClary needed to finish 14 spots ahead. S.Braswell essentially needed to finish 1st with Sudduth almost dead last to invoke a 1st place Championship finish.
It looked possible for a while as Sudduth was on a short stack, but he recovered with T.McClary still in a good position to pull off the upset. But neither M.Braswell nor T.McClary could hold on, leaving Sudduth on top of the 2023 Gundam Mountain as the 2023 World Series of Gundam Champion.
WSOG Event #12: Main Event
| PL | Name | Tot | PP+VP+CP+BP | FB+CC+BB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HeinD | 66 | 58+4+4+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 2 | GrayL | 60 | 56+0+4+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 3 | ThomJ | 60 | 54+0+4+0 | 0+0+2 |
| 4 | StreD | 56 | 52+0+4+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 5 | BrasS | 56 | 50+0+4+0 | 0+2+0 |
| 6 | MeyeJ | 52 | 48+0+4+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 7 | WettA | 48 | 46+0+0+2 | 0+0+0 |
| 8 | MeirB | 44 | 44+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 9 | DorsC | 42 | 42+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 10 | McClT | 40 | 40+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 11 | McInP | 38 | 38+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 12 | SumnT | 36 | 36+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 13 | BrasM | 34 | 34+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 14 | ShulD | 32 | 32+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 15 | WebbL | 30 | 30+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 16 | SuddM | 26 | 28+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 17 | MendR | 26 | 26+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 18 | PiscR | 24 | 24+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 19 | WellE | 22 | 22+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 20 | LambC | 20 | 20+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 21 | SemeS | 18 | 18+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 22 | AnonM | 18 | 16+0+0+0 | 2+0+0 |
| 23 | HoffM | 14 | 14+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 24 | DangL | 12 | 12+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 25 | McMaS | 10 | 10+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 26 | ChavL | 8 | 8+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 27 | SuddJ | 6 | 6+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 28 | DeckM | 4 | 4+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
| 29 | JarrJ | 2 | 2+0+0+0 | 0+0+0 |
