Heartland Poker Tour Upcoming Events & they're coming 2 Denver area 2!

[jhans24]

Has anyone read or heard when the satellites will start running?

[CincyLady]

I'm heading up there tonight to play in the Gilpin FAN event at 7pm, I think I will stop by the Golden Gates and ask.

I'm pretty sure though, that they will start for sure on October 8th at the latest.

[CincyLady]

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Are the poker rooms non-smoking in CO?

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As I mentioned before, they will be as of Jan 1, 2008.

Links to the law that was passed:

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/poli...58/detail.html

http://cbs4denver.com/politics/local...183130223.html

They (the casinos) were supposed to get a concession where they could raise the max bet from 5 bucks to something higher, but it doesn't look like that happened. To bad, because I no longer play cash games when I'm up there, because I can't stand the bingo (aka no fold 'em hold 'em) poker mentality there, that 2/5 limit poker has.

[jhans24]

What did you find out last night Cincy? Any luck in the tourney?

Josh

[CincyLady]

Naw, it was a real donkament over at The gilpin last night.

I had pocket 10s one off from the button, and the blinds were 50 and 100 (with 6 limpers into the pot before me), I (knowing how these tend to go sometimes in the land of no hold 'em fold 'em Colorado) raised it up to 600.

Some donkey with 9/10 of clubs calls my preflop raise, flop comes all low cards with 2 clubs, and donkey decides to go all in with his flush draw.

I have more chips than him and I call, you guessed it, Jack of clubs comes on the turn, and donkey claims he didn't suck out on me, because heck, he had so many outs after the flop (like duh, what where his outs BEFORE the flop, to call a 500 buck raise??), and to risk his entire stack (after the flop) on just a draw and (according to him) he was just being a good player to go all in on the flop.

In any case, I went over to The Golden Gates, and they've been slammed with phone calls from all over the country, and people showing up in their room asking questions.

Seems the guy in charge is out of town, and didn't bother to tell his people what was coming their way, and they are totally unprepared.

They were quoting the 'Nothing is for sure' montra, even though it's been posted on the Heartland Poker Tour website, and is now even mentioned in the most recent edition of Poker Player Magazine.

I was told that the 'boss' will be back sometime today, and hopefully they will have more information by the end of this week.

FWIW, I did suggest to them that they consider in September having some sort of promotion where you could:

1) Get early seats into the HPT ME
2) Since some here are already squaking that $340 is too much for a tournament, I suggested perhaps they run a promotion to award seats into the Qualifying satallites.

BTW, after almost a month in vegas, where I could play real poker, so I forgot what donkaments the events here can be.

Max bet in live action poker here, is 5 bucks, and the top live action game is 5/5 limit dealers choice poker (still no fold 'em hold 'em), and it (that mentality) invades the tournament games here too, so anyone who is coming, play carefully with the locals, they'll STILL call you with just about any two cards, especailly if you don't raise it 4 times the blind or larger preflop, even in a NL Tournament.

At times, it almost feels like I'm playing a ladies only event, when I play here. Geez, I wish I was in Vegas again. Sigh ... [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

[chim17]

That dealers choice game can be more profitable than a lot of games that are spread at much higher limits.

Handful of regulars that will cap anything.

[MLSchaff]

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2) Since some here are already squaking that $340 is too much for a tournament, I suggested perhaps they run a promotion to award seats into the Qualifying satallites.


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I believe that there are generally single-table satellites run at HPT events to get into the qualifiers. So for $75-ish the squakers can probably enter a SNG that will pay out 2 seats to the qualifiers. Not sure if this is for all HPT events, but a friend that played Mille Lacs last year got in this way.

[jhans24]

Looks like they have posted the satellite structure on the HPT schedule. They start Monday Oct 1. They have $40 and $75 satellites into the $300 sats. I will probably end up doing the $340 +10 single table two qualifiers sats on Friday Oct 12th.

[CincyLady]

I betcha though, the Golden Gates people still don't have a clue. I was up there Friday Night, and they still didn't have any information about the event, at all.

FYI, phone number to the Golden Gates is: 303-582-5600. Don't expect a live person to answer though, as the last few times I've called, I've got their answering machine.

Left a voice mail message, but no on called me back either time.

[CincyLady]

FYI, link to schedule for sats:

http://www.newsite.heartlandpokertou...007&eid=31

Link to lists of lodging:

http://www.newsite.heartlandpokertou...ue.php?vid=484

Note, in addition to whats on the list at the website above, there is also a hotel at the Colorado Station Casino as well in Black Hawk (it's part of the Isle of Capris chain), and there is a motor lodge about a mile down the road from Blackhawk on your way to Golden.

Right now, I can't remember the name, but my next trip up there, I will try to get the name and phone number for it.