Colorado Poker, does it exist

[Mondogarage]

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Thanks, I was hoping they had higher limit games though.

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I wish we did too. I quit playing the $5 games a couple years ago because they suck so incredibly bad.

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QFT

I hate $2/5 limit in Blackhawk/Central City with a passion. You can't bet your good hands, and AQ on a AKx board < K3 every single time. "No Fold'em Hold'em". But if you don't have time for a Vega$ jaunt, it's pretty much all there is, imho.

The Gilpin tourneys, on the other hand, are run quite well. There's a Friday night "Psycho 50", $50 buy in with up to NINE re-buys. That's a bit sick for me, since I prefer freezeouts, but there's a Sunday noon that's $70 buy-in for 7000 in chips.

[SplawnDarts]

This is hilarious [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Yes, the $5 limit sucks. Do I like playing so low? Of course not. But the 2/5 spread games can easily be beaten big. My records show an average win rate of just under $40 an hour for the 522 hours I have records for.

I think it's safe to say all the whiners are the people I'm taking that cash off of.

[donk13]

the games there requite a change in approach but are very beatable. the limits suck but i have never seen worse players in my life anywhere else. people chase since its so cheap but after all that's what you want rigt.

[carlgraham]

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http://coloradopokerplayer.com/index.php provides a good, frequently updated list of tournies.

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Dkay, do you have a relationship to this web site, or to the two casinos you mention? If not, how did you find this site? It was only registered 3 weeks ago, and is woefully lacking in its tourney information. In fact, it seems a bit spammy, in that its primary purpose seems to be to promote the two casinos you recommend below.

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Best tournies by far are at Gilpin Poker Room. Colorado Central Station has decent tournies also. Don't even bother with the others. Good luck.

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You've provided a conclusion, but not any reasoning. Could you elaborate on what sets the tourneys at the two casinos you recommend apart from the ones offered by other Colorado casinos? No entry fee? House adds $ to the pot? Better food? Cuter cocktail waitresses?

Forgive my suspicion, but you register just in time to answer this question, and your first post is a recommendation for a web site, which is also brand new, and that site happens to feature the same two casinos you recommend. This type of behavior is typical of someone who has a more than a passing interest in the businesses he is recommending.

Cheers, Carl.

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Cash games are mostly holdem, with a little bit of Omaha and stud. The two most common varieties are $2-5 spread limit (single blind, bets and raises on all rounds can be between $2 and $5) and 5/5, which is $5 fixed limit on all rounds, with two $5 blinds. The $5 max bet means no no-limit cash games (there are no-limit tournaments) and no limit games with bets higher than $5.

[DKay]

I don't have a relationship with the web sites or casinos. The site has been around for several months. I don't recall how I found it. Although I just posted to 2+2 for the first time I have been a reader of posts for more than a year.

With all due respect I disagree that the site is spammy, represents the two casinos I recommend, and woefully lacks tournament information. On the contrary it provides details on tournament buy ins, starting chips and blind structures that I have yet to find at any site including allvegaspoker.com. Furthermore it covers all of the casinos in Blackhawk and Central City that have poker tournaments. If you are familiar with this area you would know that there just aren't many...

What I like about the Gilpin tournaments are the number of starting chips and tournament structure. They are comparable to some of the better tournaments in Vegas, e.g. Venetian, Caesar's although not quite as good as the Bellagio, Wynn and Saturday Venetian tournament.

Hope that helps. At the end of the day I feel like I am apologizing for providing good information to a post that asked for information...

[frommagio]

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Hope that helps. At the end of the day I feel like I am apologizing for providing good information to a post that asked for information...

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Thanks for the CO info, and please ignore the rude welcome. Not everyone here is a butthead - you just need to look past the idiots.

[CORed]

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You can't bet your good hands

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I know why you're losing.

[CORed]

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Thanks, I was hoping they had higher limit games though.

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I think every serious poker player in Colorado wishes the same thing. Unfortunately, the initiative that brought casino gambling (officially called "limited gaming") was a state Constitutional amendment that included the $5 limit. It allowed slots, blackjack (also with a $5 limit, and even sorrier joke than the poker) and poker. "Poker" includes not only actual poker, but such house banked -EV abominations as "Let it Ride" "Caribbean Stud" and "Three Card Poker". The fact that the $5 limit is in the Constitution means that a statewide vote is required to raise it, and the casinos don't seem to want to spend the money it would take to fund a campaign for a change. They have certainly been willing to pay for campaigns to defeat measures that might bring in competition, though, such as one a few years ago that would have allowed "Video lottery terminals" (slots by any other name) at the horse and dog tracks. It was kind of funny, with the casinos paying for adds saying how terrible more gambling would be.

[juanez]

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The fact that the $5 limit is in the Constitution means that a statewide vote is required to raise it, and the casinos don't seem to want to spend the money it would take to fund a campaign for a change.

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There has been talk (again) of an effort to get the limits raised, even a little bit. Some considered proposals allow for just a boost in poker/blackjack limits, others also allow for more games with higher limits (craps...woohoo!).

A few of the casinos are figuring what it would cost to get an initiative passed vs. what their benefit (profit) would be. If they feel that they can get it passed and make more $$, they'll do it of course. We'll see. I don't have much faith in any initiative passing a vote though.