The WSOG ’26 Third Event dropped in participation slightly (16 players), but still had 21 buy-ins with both TimGreat and ScottRigged leap frogging Godly for a 1st place tie.
With a few new rules in 2026 and a hopeful increase in participation, the 2026 season went off without a hitch. A few of the new rules are:
Only 11 of the 12 Events will be counted towards the final Gundam Point Total
In order to (by default) enter a tournament late a player must pre-register for the tournament.
Bounty points awarded are NOT also subtracted from the Gundam Point Leader. This allows for a bounty to be placed on the ‘participating’ player with the most bounty points (not necessarily the Gundam point leader.) It also allowed for a bounty to be placed on the 1st event of the year.
Start times have changed to 8:30 PM EST
Tie for 1st place will result in a match-up to determine the Gundam Champion.
It was a battle of short-stacks, as the Gundam point leaders all took early hits to their stack, leaving them in survival mode for a good part of the tournament. Meanwhile, DeckHole, jumped out with a point lead and Godel was down to 50bb fairly quickly. With TimTheGreat building his stack to get a jump on the other point leaders, TLS33 loomed in the background. It was duck-and-cover with occasional sniper attacks from TimTheGreat, Mag Kirwin and ScottChamp who jockeyed for position as they were looking to take the 25WSOG Championship crown. Seemingly, Godel was down-for-the-count.
However, surviving like a roach was K. Godel. Nursing a short-stack for almost the entire tournament, he refused to get snuffed. Though it took a 2-out spike on the river to keep him alive at one point. Eventually, TimTheGreat seemed to have things in control, until K. Godel managed to collect some chips with a good run, while TimTheGreat hit a rough patch at the end, eventually taking 3rd.
TLS3 eventually snuffed out Godel for the victory and the bounty, but not before Godel got the Chip & Chair bonus and enough points to be crowned the 2025 Gundam Champion.
In his first ever WSOG Event, SouthKing won the 3-Game Mix. The story of the night was SouthKing’s spectacular dismantling of the overwhelming chip-leader, DeckHole. DeckHole had established a massive advantage in the final rounds, but SouthKing unleashed a barrage of pot-size river bets, systematically wiping out DeckHole’s lead and sending the former chip-leader crashing out in third place.
The High-damage clash between the top two allowed Linux to execute a masterful, low-profile strategy, deploying precise fire control to creep quietly into a high-value second-place finish simply by surviving the carnage. Earlier in the tourney, Yim Yames secured a major bounty by eliminating the legendary point leader nit K. Godel but bubbled the final payouts in fifth place, while TSL33 held a respectable position to take fourth. SouthKing’s debut victory is a stunning reminder that newcomers are poised to take next year’s championship.
Godel started off immediately nearly D.O.A., but steadily climbed until Solitude whacked him late in the tournament, putting him at risk of exiting once again. However, he fought back with some decent breaks taking 1st in the Omaha Mixed Game and collecting the chip&chair bonus by going from last to first. Malarkey, who was dominated throughout most of the tournament and knocked out the point leader for the bounty, ended up in 4th after some major blows at the final table. McClary was also strong throughout but couldn’t get to heads-up (finishing 3rd). It was the new comer, SOLITUDE, that came on strong at the end, going heads-up with Godel, but ultimately falling short and finishing 2nd. The WSOG is heating up as the season starts to finish, with a incredibly close 4 player race. This is by-far, the closest 4 player race to occur this late in a WSOG season. With 1st thru 4th only separated by 5 points. Scott22Champ seems to be always in the running only 3 points to Mag Kirwin, who despite being the 2nd player knocked out, kept his 1st place position. With this win, Sudduth jumped over TimTheGreat into third, while TimTheGreat fell to fourth place, but still just 5 points behind the leader.
Mag Kirwin blasted out of the gate, winning a hand just before the cut-off to give him the fast-break-bonus. He then knocked out Scott22Champ for the bounty bonus, ending with a long-fought heads-up battle with Godel. Deckhole bubbled out. No one advanced (or dropped) their position from Level 4 onward, leaving the Chip&Chair bonus to Linux.
The new 4-Seat format is fast paced and now has exclusively been won by one player (TimTheGreat). DeckHole got a fast start, but was destroyed by Mag Kirwin in a couple of hands just before the break, allowing Kirwin to take the Fast Break. Meanwhile, Beagle’s crafty pocket aces play took another huge hunk from DeckHole’s stack and set Beagle up for the Chip&Chair Bonus. But eventually Beagle bubbled out while Mircra took the bounty by knocking out Scott22Champ. A new comer, Leonardo, managed to squeeze into the money but got knocked out by a brutal AQo Vs. AQs, where Leonardo held the suit advantage but four diamonds hit the board sending him packing.
Jumping out to a quick lead for the fast-break-bonus, knocking out the point leader for the bounty-bonus and ending with the victory point bonus, TimTheGreat jump from the bottom of the pack to 4th place in Gundam Points, while ScottTheChamp manages to hang on to 2nd place in the tournament, extending his lead Gundam Point lead over Mag Kirwin (2nd) and Linux (3rd) in Gundam Points.
At one point TimTheGreat almost gave up the chip lead, but managed a huge bluff against Lukem (who took 3rd in the tournament). JeanGreen held on, getting into the money, but with a short stack was soon dispensed. TimTheGreat Applied huge pressure by putting Lukem all-in at a critical moment on a paired board. This put both ScottTheChamp and Lukem with short stacks and it was just a matter of time before one of the two had to commit their stacks.
Scott22Champ started slow (7th place at the break) but once he had the chip lead he didn’t give it up through-out the tournament, earning the Chip & Chair bonus. He even collected the bounty by knocking out Mag-Kirwin, collecting an astonishing 17 points in a 10 player tourney. It was TLS33 who jumped ahead quick for the fast-break, but couldn’t manage to outlast Linux who battled from a very short stack at the final table to finish in 2nd place. TLS33 did finish third with DeckHole taking the bubble.
Sumner, aka TLS33, stacked several players in the first levels of the Pot-Limit Omaha event, giving him the Fast-Break bonus and the momentum to carry him into the victory seat. Using his chips fearlessly, Sumner knocked out players throughout the tourney. Godel, who got damaged early on, nursed his sub-par stack to the heads-up battle with TLS33, knocking out DeckHole (for the bounty) and picking up 2nd place and the Chip-n-Chair bonus. Meanwhile, Mircra played a very solid game with 2nd in chips going into the money, however, couldn’t avoid a river spike that knocked him out in 3rd. Shull, having to recover from flopping the nutz and getting it in good on the turn (no need to say how it turned out) finished 4th. Jean also played a very solid game, but unfortunately, bubbled.