ClubGG's October Update: New Table Modes, a Tournament Clock, and a Tighter Sit-Out Window

ClubGG pushed a meaningful client update on October 21, and while none of the individual changes are headline-grabbing on their own, together they shift how sessions actually play out at the tables — which matters if you're trying to build a clean, trackable sample size.

What Changed

The update adds two new table variants to the lobby alongside the existing formats. Table modes now include Regular, All-in or Fold, Bomb Pot, Squid Game and Cucurucho, with the latter two added in October 2026. If you haven't run into Cucurucho or Squid Game tables yet, expect oddball structures and faster variance — useful for mixing things up, but worth tagging separately in your own notes so they don't skew your "normal" NLH numbers.

A few smaller but genuinely useful quality-of-life tweaks also shipped in the same patch:

• Screen Guard on PC now hides tables from screenshots and screen recordings, which is a security feature rather than a tracking one — it's one of several account security tools listed alongside GGPass login and two-step verification.
• Action Voice lets you assign a voice to common actions like all-in, raise, bet, and check, which is a nice touch for players who multi-table and rely on audio cues.
• The all-in sit-out grace period dropped from 15 minutes to 5 minutes. This is the change that will actually affect your volume. Shorter grace periods mean disconnected or AFK players get auto-folded out of pots faster, which speeds up table turnover but also means a brief connection hiccup costs you a seat sooner than it used to.
• A new Tournament Clock surfaces prizes, blinds, and stack sizes at a glance, which should cut down on tab-switching during MTTs.

These details come from ClubGG's own October 21 update notes. For context on scale, ClubGG reports more than 120 active unions and over 2 million users, so even incremental lobby changes like this touch a large player base quickly.

Why the Sit-Out Change Matters for Your Numbers

If you're grinding multiple tables and occasionally stepping away between hands, a tighter sit-out window means you'll get folded and potentially blinded off faster than before. That's not a huge deal financially, but it does create more incomplete sessions and more orphaned hands in your database if you're not careful about how you close out a session. When you're reviewing a week's worth of play later, a handful of auto-folded, zero-action hands from a rushed table exit can quietly drag down stats like VPIP or PFR if you don't filter them out.

The Built-In Tools Still Have a Ceiling

ClubGG's client ships with its own in-app tools — PokerCraft for hand history browsing, a Smart HUD, Rabbit Hunt, Splash, and Card Squeeze — available to WSOP+ Basic and Premium members. These are fine for a quick glance at a session, but they're built for casual review inside the app, not for long-term win-rate tracking, position-by-position breakdowns, or filtering thousands of hands by stake, table size, or session length. That's the gap a dedicated ClubGG tracker is built to fill — capturing every hand you play on ClubGG and importing it cleanly into DriveHUD so you can actually see your real results over weeks and months, not just the last few orbits.

What to Watch Next

ClubGG has been shipping client updates at a steady clip through the fall, and the pattern suggests more table-variant experiments and lobby tweaks are likely before year-end. If you play a mix of Regular, Bomb Pot, and now Cucurucho or Squid Game tables, it's worth getting in the habit of separating those formats in your own review process early rather than untangling a mixed bag of hand histories later.

If you're new to pulling your ClubGG hands into a tracker at all, the setup guide walks through getting hand history capture running alongside DriveHUD so October's lobby changes don't catch your database off guard.