WPT Global puts two WPT Rings on the same card this Sunday, 26 July. The WPT Ring Overdrive: Mystery Surge headlines at $26 with $150,000 guaranteed, while the $8 Warm Up phase closes into its Day 2 ring final.

It is the first double-ring Sunday of the Summer Overdrive series, and the cheapest one. Neither route into a ring costs more than $26, and one of them costs $8.

Both winners walk away with a Gold WPT Ring and a live step towards the ¥3,000,000 (~$415K) Collect 3 bonus. Here is what each event looks like.

WPT Mystery Surge: $26 for a $150,000 Mystery Bounty

Mystery Surge is the second of seven Sunday ring features in the WPT Asia Series Summer Overdrive, and the first with a bounty format attached. The full picture sits in the complete Summer Overdrive schedule and promotions.

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The mystery element means every knockout after the bounty stage opens an envelope, and the $15,000 Grand Box can outweigh a min-cash many times over. The format follows the same mechanics as the weekly Mystery Millions bounty structure, so anyone who has fired those events will know the rhythm.

Last Call for the $8 Warm Up Flights

The Warm Up has been running Day 1 flights every couple of hours since 19 July. That window shuts this Sunday, when all surviving stacks return for the Day 2 final and its $150,000 guaranteed prize pool.

At $8 a bullet, it is the cheapest ring shot of the entire series. Once it closes, the phase buy-ins step up week by week, finishing at $26 for the Full Throttle final on 30 August.

Why Sunday’s Rings Carry Extra Weight

The schedule is built around Asian evening prime time, which is what makes the series unusually comfortable for European players: ring Sundays land in the afternoon rather than the usual late-night grind.

Every Gold Ring won this series counts towards Collect 3, which pays ¥3,000,000 (~$415K) to any player reaching three rings. With two available on one Sunday, this weekend is the fastest anyone can move up that ladder so far this series.

The week 2 leaderboard also opens on Sunday. The board resets weekly with a ¥300,000 (~$41.5K) pool, so a quiet opening week costs nothing going into the new race.

The Side Games Running Through the Weekend

The weekly leaderboard is the bigger of the two background races. Points come from every entry and every deep run in eligible tournaments, weeks one to four each carry ¥300,000 (~$41.5K), and the pools rise to ¥400,000 (~$55K) for the final two weeks.

Because the board wipes clean each week, Sunday is a genuine fresh start. A player who skipped week one entirely competes for week 2 on level terms with everyone who fired the full Ignition schedule.

The Daily Mission Flip keeps running underneath it all. Completed daily missions earn Tickets, standard missions pay up to 27 Tickets per day, and the Bubble Saver mission adds two more every time you bust as the bubble, with no daily cap.

Each Ticket enters an hourly Allin Flip flight, where every hand is an automatic all-in. Survivors advance to a nightly Day 2 at 22:30 UTC+8 played as a normal tournament, and unused Tickets never expire.

The Road to Bounty Boost

After Sunday, the series steps up: Bounty Boost arrives on 2 August at $82 with $225,000 guaranteed, and the $9 Rev Up flights open the same Sunday to start the race towards the next phase final.

The Warm Up window closing on Sunday means anyone still planning a run at the cheapest ring of the series has until then to get a flight in.

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