For those of you who might be coming to the Golden Gates event from outside the area, there are only 2 hotels that I know of in Blackhawk (well actually 3, as one of them is linked with the Isle of Capris).
This because the Gates Casino's (there are 3 of them) do not have a hotel, not even one between them.
Those are the Lodge Casino which is right across the street from The Golden Gates (that casino only has 50 rooms, so it fills up fast):
http://www.thelodgecasino.com/
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Accomodations
Stay the Night
The Lodge Casino at Black Hawk offers 50 newly remodeled, comfortable rooms available for your enjoyment. All of our guest rooms are located on the 3rd floor with lovely Colorado mountain views. Plan your getaway today!
For rates and reservations, please call 303-582-6500.
Check-in time: 3:00 pm
Check-out time: 11:00 am
Sorry, we have a few restrictions:
No one under 21
No pets
No senior or military discounts
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and The Isle of Capris:
http://www.isleofcapricasinos.com/Black_Hawk/hotel.php
Which you can book online (they have a lot more rooms)
There is also the Colorado Central Station Casino Hotel, which is part of the Isle of Capris Casinos as well, that has a small hotel as well.
http://www.coloradocentralstation.com/
The rooms are a tad on the pricy side (for all 3 hotels), because they know that they don't have much in the way of competition.
For both the Isle and Colorado Station hotels, you can also call 1-800-THE-ISLE for more information.
BTW, it looks like it is going to happen, the only thing that could stop it now, is if the Colorado Gaming commision fudges it up or something.
I am also thinking that perhaps the reason why you can't buy in direct, is that (mabye) they (the HPT) want for the Main event to run as a No Limit from the get go, and they can't do that if it's a direct buy in (due to Colorado gaming laws).
It that's is it's only sticking point, I say they should allow that first hand to be limit, and then switch to NL (like they do for all tourneys here in Colorado that are played for money in Casinos) for the rest so ppl could buy directly in if they so choose to.
I also highly recommend that if you are coming for the cash games, that unless you are a low limit specialist in the game of "No Fold 'em hold 'em" then you might as well not come, because that's how they play up there (any two cards to the river).
That's not to say you can't come and take advantage of the Tourney's at the Gilpin (they run really good NL events as well), but unless you are really really good at low limit, they'll pretty much kick your buns here.