Gundam Poker

McClary, after a slow WSOG start, storms back quickly taking the chip lead (for the Fast-Break bonus) and never relinquishing it for a 1st place finish in Event #04, leaping 4 spots in a tie for 3rd place in Gundam Points. Meanwhile, M.Braswell picked his spots to survive to 2nd place, taking the WSOG Point lead.
Decker, getting knocked out very early in the tournament (by T.Sumner, who was awarded the Bounty Point) slipped from 1st to 3rd in Points, while S.Braswell, who finished in the middle of the pack… managed to stick in 2nd place in Gundam Points. As always, J.Meyer, once low on chips climbed back for a 3rd place finish, however, it was P.McIntosh who had the roughest start and earned the Chip & Chair bonus by managing to go from 12th place to 4th place and finish in the money.

WSOG Event #04: No-Limit Hold’em 4-Seat

PL	Name	Tot	PP+VP+CP+BP	FB+CC+BB
1	McClT	17	12+2+2+0	1+0+0
2	BrasM	13	11+0+2+0	0+0+0
3	MeyeJ	12	10+0+2+0	0+0+0
4	McInP	12	9+0+2+0	0+1+0
5	SuddM	9	8+0+0+1	0+0+0
6	SuddJ	7	7+0+0+0	1+0+0
7	MeirB	6	6+0+0+0	0+0+0
8	BrasS	5	5+0+0+0	0+0+0
9	PischR	4	4+0+0+0	0+0+0
10	SumnT	4	3+0+0+0	1+0+0
11	DeckM	1	2+0+0+0	0+0-1
12	ShullD	1	1+0+0+0	0+0+0

Finally, there’s a non-Braswell Gundam point leader, as the unlikely dismal tourney player, M.Decker, pulls in front for the first time in… forever. It took several re-entries for not only Decker, but also several others before everyone settled down for a fast-and-furious 4-seat event. Sumner took the quick lead with a massive chip stack early (and fast-break-bonus), while went from 9th to 1st collecting the chip-n-chair bonus. Meirsonne bumped-off S. Braswell for the bounty.
The first short-handed (4-seat) event created quite a bit of churn, as almost 1/2 the field crashed-and-burned and had to re-enter, including 2 double re-entries. Decker jumped from 3rd place to first, while both Braswell’s just slipped one spot into 2nd and 3rd. Both M.Sudduth and T.Sumner shot up multiple spots and McClary slipped to the middle of the pack (but still well within range to make up the distance with <20% of the points distributed.

WSOG Event #03: No-Limit Hold’em 4-Seat

PL	Name	Tot	PP+VP+CP+BP	FB+CC+BB
1	DeckM	15	10+2+2+0	0+1+0
2	SuddM	11	9+0+2+0	0+0+0
3	HoffM	10	8+0+2+0	0+0+0
4	MeirB	10	7+0+2+1	0+0+1
5	BrasS	6	6+0+0+1	0+0-1
6	SumT	6	5+0+0+0	1+0+0
7	ShulD	4	4+0+0+0	0+0+0
8	BrasM	3	3+0+0+0	0+0+0
9	SuddJ	2	2+0+0+0	0+0+0
10	McClT	1	1+0+0+0	1+0+0

The Braswell’s are back at it with younger Braswell taking 1st and elder taking 3rd sandwiching T.Sumner, who finished 2nd. So far the Braswell’s are dominating 2024, each winning a bracelet in the first two WOSG events which puts them in 1st (S.Braswell) and 2nd (M.Braswell) in Gundam Points for the year.
T.Sumner, who took a quick lead (but not as quick as T.McClary, who won the fast-break bonus), amassed a huge amount of chips early (nearly 1/2 of the chips at the table) and kept them until it got to heads-up with M.Braswell by knocking out the other Braswell for the Bounty point. M.Braswell had fought his way from 7th to 1st (nabbing the chip-n-chair bonus on the way) and traded blows with T.Sumner until the final shot was fired, knocking Sumner out. Sudduth made up some ground from his dismal performance in Event #02 by bubbling in Event #02.

WSOG Event #02: Stud High/Low

PL	Name	Tot	PP+VP+CP+BP	FB+CC+BB
1	BrasM	17	12+2+2+0	0+1+0
2	SumnT	14	11+0+2+0	0+0+1
3	BrasS	11	10+0+2+0	0+0-1
4	SuddM	10	9+0+0+1	0+1+0
5	McInP	8	8+0+0+0	0+0+0
6	DeckM	7	7+0+0+0	0+0+0
7	HoffM	6	6+0+0+0	0+0+0
8	SuddJ	5	5+0+0+0	0+0+0
9	MeirB	4	4+0+0+0	0+0+0
10	McClT	4	3+0+0+0	1+0+0
11	MeyeJ	2	2+0+0+0	0+0+0
12	ShulD	1	1+0+0+0	0+0+0

It sure feels like a new year, with Decker not finishing in the bottom two-spots and M.Sudduth (Godel) going out in last place. McClary (after having a strong 2023) finishes strong (2nd place) in the first WSOG event of the year. But it is S.Braswell who dominated the event when it got into the money, knocking out the last 3 players remaining. Let’s see how he does with a Bounty on his head!

It was a game of huge hands, with straight-flushes beating nut-flushes, boats beating boats and quads appearing out of no-where. Plenty of bad-beats and coolers to go around.

WSOG Event #01: 2-Game Mix

PL	Name	Tot	PP+VP+CP+BP	FB+CC+BB
1	BrasS	18	14+2+2+0	0+0+0
2	McClT	15	13+0+2+0	0+0+0
3	DeckM	14	12+0+2+0	0+0+0
4	SuddJ	14	11+0+2+0	0+1+0
5	MeyeJ	12	10+0+0+1	1+0+0
6	McInP	9	9+0+0+0	0+0+0
7	BrasM	8	8+0+0+0	0+0+0
8	WellE	7	7+0+0+0	0+0+0
9	PiscR	6	6+0+0+0	0+0+0
10	SumnT	5	5+0+0+0	0+0+0
11	DangL	4	4+0+0+0	0+0+0
12	HoffM	3	3+0+0+0	0+0+0
13	MeirB	2	2+0+0+0	0+0+0
14	SuddM	1	1+0+0+0	0+0+0

It was the second (maybe third) WSOG event where M.Sudduth found himself short-stacked early (this time getting the chip-n-chair bonus) and bailed out with double-ups from big bluffs or weaker hands piling into his monsters (though, no call is easy when your tournament life is at risk.) The assassin (aka J.Sudduth) started heads-up with a dominate chip-lead but couldn’t quite get her kill shot stabilized allowing her spawn to crawl into first and stay there and collect his own bounty. Streu ended up in 3rd place while S.Braswell was in 4th. Sumner got off to an early start earning the fast-break bonus.

WSOG Event #11: 3-Game Mix

PL	Name	Tot	PP+VP+CP+BP	FB+CC+BB
1	SuddM	23	17+2+2+0	0+1+1
2	SuddJ	18	16+0+2+0	0+0+0
3	StreD	17	15+0+2+0	0+0+0
4	BrasS	16	14+0+2+0	0+0+0
5	MeyeJ	14	13+0+0+1	0+0+0
6	ChavL	12	12+0+0+0	0+0+0
7	LambC	11	11+0+0+0	0+0+0
8	SumnT	11	10+0+0+0	1+0+0
9	BrasM	9	9+0+0+0	0+0+0
10	ShulD	8	8+0+0+0	0+0+0
11	DorsC	7	7+0+0+0	0+0+0
12	HoffM	6	6+0+0+0	0+0+0
13	DeckM	5	5+0+0+0	0+0+0
14	McClT	4	4+0+0+0	0+0+0
15	PiscR	3	3+0+0+0	0+0+0
16	McGuJ	2	2+0+0+0	0+0+0
17	DangL	1	1+0+0+0	0+0+0

In typical Meyer fashion, he rises from ashes, in a large 16 player field, by taking a low-stack and grinding it out for a victory. This time knocking the current Gundam Point Leader, SudduthM for the bounty. Meirsonne grabs the chip-n-chair and 3rd place, while Lamb manages to cash in 4th place. Sumner got off to a fast start grabbing the fast-break bonus as well as the bubble-bonus.

WSOG Event #10: No-Limit Hold’em

PL	Name	Tot	PP+VP+CP+BP	FB+CC+BB
1	MeyeJ	21	16+2+2+0	0+0+1
2	SuddM	16	15+0+2+0	0+0-1
3	MeirB	17	14+0+2+0	0+1+0
4	LambC	15	13+0+2+0	0+0+0
5	SumnT	14	12+0+0+1	1+0+0
6	BrasS	11	11+0+0+0	1+0-1
7	BrasM	10	10+0+0+0	0+0+0
8	DangL	9	9+0+0+0	0+0+0
9	PiscR	8	8+0+0+0	0+0+0
10	JarrJ	7	7+0+0+0	0+0+0
11	SuddJ	6	6+0+0+0	0+0+0
12	McInP	5	5+0+0+0	0+0+0
13	McClT	4	4+0+0+0	0+0+0
14	DeckM	3	3+0+0+0	0+0+0
15	ShulD	2	2+0+0+0	0+0+0
16	HoffM	1	1+0+0+0	0+0+0

It was an epic battle, with Decker blasting away 3 buy-ins and Jean taking out the Gundam Point Leader pretty early in the tournament. The Gundam Point Leader, M.Sudduth, got off to a quick start earning the Fast-Break-Bonus, however, shortly after that he ended up getting waxed by his own mother (aka ‘the assassin’) who picked up the bounty bonus and ended up with the victory as well.
Meanwhile, S.Brawell battled with a short-stack long enough to pick-up the Chip-N-Chair Bonus. Towards the end it looked like Meiresonne was going to dominate, but T.McClary soon took charge and the chip lead, until late in the game when J.Sudduth and B.Meiresonne took some big pots from McClary. He eventually fell to Jean, who finally managed to NOT split a few pots with him, earning her another WSOG Bracelet.

WSOG Event #09: Pot-Limit Omaha 8 with Rebuys

PL	Name	Tot	PP+VP+CP+BP	FB+CC+BB
1	SuddJ	13	8+2+2+0	0+0+1
2	McClT	9	7+0+2+0	0+0+0
3	MeirB	7	6+0+0+1	0+0+0
4	BrasS	6	5+0+0+0	0+1+0
5	BrasM	4	4+0+0+0	0+0+0
6	SuddM	3	3+0+0+0	1+0-1
7	DangL	2	2+0+0+0	0+0+0
8	DeckM	1	1+0+0+0	0+0+0