This is the first of many future Gauntlet summaries. If you are not sure what the Gauntlet is, be sure to click on the word “Gauntlet” to find out and register. Basically, it is FTR’s own private league where we donk around and have fun. You will see in a lot of the hand histories there is some bashing/talking, and that’s because we all know each other and have a good time. If you haven’t already, register and play with us next game. In these summaries, you will see the good, the bad, and the ugly of hands. After I summarize the tournament, I will post the hands of the night, including “lol cooleraments” which will be the cooler of the night, “wtf was he thinking” which will be the questionable play of the night, along with “donk of the night” which will be the worst beat.

It was trick or treat on 10/31, and 20 people decided to play poker rather than dress up (unless of course they dressed up to play poker?) Before game 10 began, here were the top 10 standings:

FTR NameGP Points
Jimmy Mac – 6 – 489.07
Alexos – 7 – 374.32
givememyleg – 6 – 355.11
bigred – 5 – 338.53
kmind – 4 – 334.84
ackthecat – 5 – 287.89
badgers – 4 – 264.92
Shifubowa – 6 – 262.65
Mirage – 5 – 254.32
ChrisTheFish – 4 – 229.47

Out of the top 10 standings, these are the ones who played in game 10; givememyleg, bigred, kmind, and ackthecat. Other players who donked around were Sauce123, bigspenda73, a rare appearance by Flomo, and drmcboy (who likes to think no-limit is limit).

Let’s get to the action. It didn’t take long for the gauntlet to find its first casualty, the current 4th place player bigred. He was done in by Sauce in the first 10 minutes, as you can see below:

*** HOLE CARDS ***
ackthecat: folds
AvatarKava: calls 20
nmheat: folds
Sauce123: raises 60 to 80
bigred07: raises 70 to 150
Tchrsmth: folds
fimanoid: folds
AvatarKava: folds
Sauce123: calls 70
*** FLOP *** [Qd 6s Td]
Sauce123: checks
bigred07: bets 225
Sauce123: calls 225
*** TURN *** [Qd 6s Td] [Ah]
Sauce123: checks
bigred07: checks
*** RIVER *** [Qd 6s Td Ah] [Qs]
Sauce123: bets 1165 and is all-in
bigred07: calls 1095 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Sauce123: shows [Jh Qh] (three of a kind, Queens)
bigred07: shows [Kd As] (two pair, Aces and Queens)
bigred07 said, “lol”
Sauce123 collected 2990 from pot

He did play the hand pretty weird, from the minbet preflop, to the check on the turn letting Sauce get there; but all in all bigred is a good player (bigred plays poker?!)

Warpe was also making sure this game wouldn’t last long, with two early eliminations making him the early chip leader, starting with kmind (toddanderson on PokerStars):

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to givememyleg [Kh Jc]
flomosapien: folds
kingnat: folds
givememyleg: raises 40 to 60
toddanderson: calls 60
cobere32: folds
Warpe: calls 50
LolTrappedU: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [2s 8s As]
Warpe: checks
LolTrappedU: checks
givememyleg: checks
toddanderson: checks
*** TURN *** [2s 8s As] [6c]
Warpe: bets 180
LolTrappedU: folds
givememyleg: folds
toddanderson: raises 280 to 460
Warpe: raises 1167 to 1627 and is all-in
toddanderson: calls 790 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [2s 8s As 6c] [9d]
givememyleg said, “lol”
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Warpe: shows [Js Ks] (a flush, Ace high)
toddanderson: shows [Ts 7s] (a flush, Ace high – lower cards)
givememyleg said, “bye todd”
Warpe collected 2740 from pot

Followed by HalvSame:

*** HOLE CARDS ***
cuthbertt said, “god hates weaklings”
swiggidy said, “oh snap”
flomosapien: folds
Triptanes: folds
kingnat said, “lol”
Warpe: raises 40 to 60
kingnat said, “word…”
HalvSame said, “okay so back toproper minbetaments”
HalvSame: calls 60
kingnat: folds
HalvSame said, “booooo”
Bender50: calls 60
cuthbertt: folds
swiggidy: folds
*** FLOP *** [Th 2d Qd]
Warpe: bets 180
cuthbertt said, “warpe may be too old to remember limit”
HalvSame said, “warpe have you got chat on?”
HalvSame: raises 180 to 360
Bender50: folds
Warpe: raises 700 to 1060
swiggidy said, “lol”
HalvSame said, “uh oh”
HalvSame: raises 590 to 1650 and is all-in
Warpe: calls 590
HalvSame said, “byebye”
*** TURN *** [Th 2d Qd] [5s]
*** RIVER *** [Th 2d Qd 5s] [4d]
cuthbertt said, “kkkkkkkkkk”
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Warpe: shows [As Ac] (a pair of Aces)
HalvSame: shows [Qs Ks] (a pair of Queens)
kingnat said, “g’ngiht halv”
Warpe collected 3510 from pot
Warpe said, “gg”

This hand just shows the fun we try to have in the Gauntlet.  The games are always no-limit hold’em, but drmcboy was trying to get everyone to play limit.  I guess the betting was capped preflop:

*** HOLE CARDS ***
cuthbertt: raises 30 to 60
swiggidy: raises 30 to 90
flomosapien: folds
Triptanes: folds
Warpe: folds
ackthecat: calls 90
kingnat: calls 75
Bender50: folds
cuthbertt: raises 30 to 120
swiggidy: calls 30
cuthbertt said, “CAPPPPPPPP”
ackthecat: calls 30
kingnat: calls 30
*** FLOP *** [7s Kh Ac]
kingnat: checks
cuthbertt: bets 30
swiggidy: calls 30
cuthbertt said, “poker is fun”
ackthecat: raises 150 to 180
kingnat: folds
kingnat said, “i don’t think i’m getting odds…”
swiggidy said, “only if you hate money”
cuthbertt: folds
swiggidy: folds
ackthecat collected 600 from pot
ackthecat: doesn’t show hand
swiggidy said, “WHICH I DO!!!!”

There was many players who were playing well, and the cards just we’re holding up for them. An example of this would be cobere32, who made a sick insta-call against Triptanes when he made a stop n go attempt:

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to givememyleg [8c 2s]
Triptanes said, “hint”
Triptanes said, “don raise my blind”
Triptanes said, “spenda”
nmheat: folds
Sauce123: folds
givememyleg: folds
LolTrappedU said, “I have 3 hi”
cobere32: raises 200 to 300
Tchrsmth: folds
LolTrappedU: folds
Triptanes said, “watch me stop n go this fool”
Triptanes said, “i have aces”
Triptanes: calls 200
*** FLOP *** [Ah 6c Kh]
Triptanes: bets 660
cobere32: calls 660 and is all-in
givememyleg said, “lol”
Triptanes said, “wow”
Triptanes said, “waht a donk”
*** TURN *** [Ah 6c Kh] [7c]
Sauce123 said, “awesome”
*** RIVER *** [Ah 6c Kh 7c] [4s]
givememyleg said, “LOL”
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Triptanes: shows [6d 7d] (two pair, Sevens and Sixes)
cobere32: shows [Jd Js] (a pair of Jacks)
LolTrappedU said, “nh”
Triptanes said, “u deserve to go”
Triptanes collected 1970 from pot

The play continued for about an hour, and poor flomo was the final table bubble boy finishing in 10th place after a sick turn card:

*** HOLE CARDS ***
flomosapien: raises 795 to 895 and is all-in
Warpe: folds
kingnat: folds
Bender50: folds
cuthbertt: calls 795
*** FLOP *** [Kc Ks 5d]
*** TURN *** [Kc Ks 5d] [9d]
*** RIVER *** [Kc Ks 5d 9d] [8s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
cuthbertt: shows [9c 9s] (a full house, Nines full of Kings)
flomosapien: shows [As Kh] (three of a kind, Kings)
cuthbertt collected 1840 from pot

Going into the final table, the chip leader was Warpe with 5852, and in a close second was Sauce with 5438 who had been playing very loose and aggressive throughout the tournament. In 3rd was drmcboy with 4034. The first victim was drmcboy (cuthbertt on PokerStars) done in by Mr Warpe himself:

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to givememyleg [3c Kc]
Triptanes: folds
kingnat: folds
Warpe: raises 300 to 450
nmheat: folds
Sauce123: folds
givememyleg: folds
Bender50: folds
Tchrsmth: folds
cuthbertt: calls 300
*** FLOP *** [4h Ts 6s]
cuthbertt: checks
Warpe: bets 450
cuthbertt said, “this is for HALV”
kingnat is disconnected
cuthbertt: raises 1350 to 1800
Warpe: raises 3602 to 5402 and is all-in
cuthbertt: calls 2009 and is all-in
kingnat is connected
*** TURN *** [4h Ts 6s] [Qd]
*** RIVER *** [4h Ts 6s Qd] [5s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
cuthbertt: shows [4d 4s] (three of a kind, Fours)
Warpe: shows [Js Ks] (a flush, King high)
givememyleg said, “uh oh”
Warpe collected 8593 from pot

This suckout gave Warpe over 10,000 chips and he was the clear favorite to win it all. However, shortly thereafter there would be a reversal of fortune and chip position, as Warpe and Sauce played a 12,000 chip pot:

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to givememyleg [6d 4h]
Tchrsmth: folds
Triptanes: folds
kingnat: folds
Warpe: raises 300 to 450
nmheat: folds
Sauce123: calls 450
givememyleg: folds
Sauce123 said, “call”
Bender50: folds
*** FLOP *** [2s 8s Tc]
Warpe: bets 450
kingnat said, “call”
Sauce123: calls 450
*** TURN *** [2s 8s Tc] [Qc]
Sauce123 said, “snap”
Warpe: bets 2700
Sauce123: raises 2332 to 5032 and is all-in
Warpe: calls 2332
*** RIVER *** [2s 8s Tc Qc] [3d]
kingnat said, “wow”
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Warpe: shows [Kc Qd] (a pair of Queens)
Sauce123: shows [8h 8c] (three of a kind, Eights)
Sauce123 collected 12089 from pot

From then on Sauce dominated the table with his fearless aggression and insane luckbox (this guy can flip a coin!) He eliminated almost everyone at the final table and when it was down to 4 way action, he had over 60% of the chips in play. Here are some examples of this guys luckbox:

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Bender50: folds
kingnat: raises 2327 to 2727 and is all-in
Warpe: folds
Sauce123: calls 2327
kingnat said, “wee”
*** FLOP *** [Kc 4d 4s]
kingnat said, “LOL”
*** TURN *** [Kc 4d 4s] [Qs]
*** RIVER *** [Kc 4d 4s Qs] [Ah]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Sauce123: shows [Qh 4c] (a full house, Fours full of Queens)
kingnat: shows [5h 5d] (two pair, Fives and Fours)
kingnat said, “super great”
Sauce123 collected 5754 from pot

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Bender50: raises 1919 to 2319 and is all-in
Warpe: folds
Sauce123: calls 1919
*** FLOP *** [9s 2c 6d]
Sauce123 said, “lolz”
*** TURN *** [9s 2c 6d] [5h]
*** RIVER *** [9s 2c 6d 5h] [7h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Sauce123: shows [Kc 8c] (a straight, Five to Nine)
Bender50: shows [Kd Ts] (high card King)
Sauce123 said, “that was a bad call”
Sauce123 said, “gg”
Sauce123 collected 4913 from pot

Down to heads up it was Warpe against Sauce, with Sauce having him out chipped 5:1. It wasn’t a long gruling battle, in fact, it lasted just one hand:

Seat 6: Warpe (5524 in chips)
Seat 8: Sauce123 (24476 in chips)
Warpe: posts the ante 25
Sauce123: posts the ante 25
Warpe: posts small blind 200
Sauce123: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Warpe: raises 800 to 1200
Sauce123: raises 23251 to 24451 and is all-in
Warpe: calls 4299 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Ts 9h 5c]
*** TURN *** [Ts 9h 5c] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [Ts 9h 5c Jh] [2s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Sauce123: shows [2c Ad] (a pair of Deuces)
Warpe: shows [8s Ah] (high card Ace)
Sauce123 collected 11048 from pot

And Sauce was the winner of game 10 of the gauntlet! All in all he played very well, and even though he got lucky at times he deserved to win. You always need some luck to win donkaments!

Here are the hands of the night:

lol cooleraments

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to givememyleg [Kh Jc]
flomosapien: folds
kingnat: folds
givememyleg: raises 40 to 60
toddanderson: calls 60
cobere32: folds
Warpe: calls 50
LolTrappedU: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [2s 8s As]
Warpe: checks
LolTrappedU: checks
givememyleg: checks
toddanderson: checks
*** TURN *** [2s 8s As] [6c]
Warpe: bets 180
LolTrappedU: folds
givememyleg: folds
toddanderson: raises 280 to 460
Warpe: raises 1167 to 1627 and is all-in
toddanderson: calls 790 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [2s 8s As 6c] [9d]
givememyleg said, “lol”
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Warpe: shows [Js Ks] (a flush, Ace high)
toddanderson: shows [Ts 7s] (a flush, Ace high – lower cards)
givememyleg said, “bye todd”
Warpe collected 2740 from pot
toddanderson said, “sick hand award?”

Flush over flush is pretty sick.

WTF was he Thinking?

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to givememyleg [Kh Kc]
Sauce123: folds
givememyleg: raises 255 to 405
kingnat said, “lol”
Bender50: folds
Tchrsmth: folds
Triptanes: folds
givememyleg said, “who is this guy”
kingnat: folds
Warpe: folds
givememyleg said, “who really likes king nat”
nmheat: calls 255
*** FLOP *** [2s 9c 6c]
givememyleg said, “?”
nmheat: bets 444
kingnat said, “friend of mine…. he’s kinda ghey….”
givememyleg: raises 1239 to 1683 and is all-in
nmheat: calls 1239
*** TURN *** [2s 9c 6c] [8h]
*** RIVER *** [2s 9c 6c 8h] [Ts]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
nmheat: shows [Qs Ac] (high card Ace)
givememyleg: shows [Kh Kc] (a pair of Kings)
givememyleg collected 4251 from pot
givememyleg said, “no respect :(”

I have no idea what he was doing here.

Donk of the Night

Seat 6: Warpe (5524 in chips)
Seat 8: Sauce123 (24476 in chips)
Warpe: posts the ante 25
Sauce123: posts the ante 25
Warpe: posts small blind 200
Sauce123: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Warpe: raises 800 to 1200
Sauce123: raises 23251 to 24451 and is all-in
Warpe: calls 4299 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Ts 9h 5c]
*** TURN *** [Ts 9h 5c] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [Ts 9h 5c Jh] [2s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Sauce123: shows [2c Ad] (a pair of Deuces)
Warpe: shows [8s Ah] (high card Ace)
Sauce123 collected 11048 from pot

And RiverStars lives up to its name dropping the deuce on the river!

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