blackhawk cardrooms

hero · #1 12-18-2005, 03:29 AM

I just moved out west to breckenridge and checked out blackhawk area cas' friday night, played a 35+5 @ the CSS and it seemed soft, made the FT but missed the $ on a stupid move but using the search i'm curious of the veterans picks on good tournaments & soft 2/5 or 3/5 limit games?

i hear gilpin has a good $50 madness and the lodge limit games are to be avoided like the plague due to coercion and betting idiocy. also hear they're opening a new joint real soon? flaking out working nights my only regular day off would be thurs or friday, so thoughts about the gilpin $60 and the rebuy madness on friday? i'll most likely be up this tues to play the $60 and prolly 1nce a wk bc i'd rather play live. thx/ Andy

hero · #2 12-18-2005, 03:31 PM

shameless bump

A_K · #3 12-18-2005, 06:13 PM

Others can speak with vastly more experience than me, but I must say that I prefer the gilpen to the lodge by a mile. Roomier, less smoke, etc. etc.

At least when I've played (weekends) the 2-5 and the Lodge and the 2-4 at the Giplen were both pretty soft. Possibly softer than .5/1 on Party . . .

UncleSalty · #4 12-18-2005, 06:44 PM

I agree w/ AK, The Gilpin is by far the nicest room I've been to in Blackhawk. Their NL tourneys are quite soft too.

juanez · #5 12-18-2005, 08:26 PM

Andy,
The Friday night tourney at the Gilpin is the "Psycho Fifty". $50 buy in and up to eight $50 rebuys. Only once has anyone done 8 rebuys...lol. There's also a bounty of 1000 chips when you bust someone out and they don't rebuy. The prize pool gets pretty large.

If you're into rebuy tourneys, the Gilpin also has a $100 rebuy tourney on Saturday night - up to three rebuys. You can do all three buys at once, or whenever you need to. Some guys plunk down $400 right away and start with a big stack.

Check out the Gilpin Tourney Schedule We have tourneys every day.

The new room opening will be at the Golden Gates casino. It's opening in a few days.

Good luck!
JP

hero · #6 12-19-2005, 02:06 AM

thanks for the info, i'm gonna play the 60$ gilpin non rebuy 7pm this tuesday and will be up there to play various limit games and tourneys for the rest of the winter- generally wearing a blue hoodie and electric hat. i'll sup bro the table to get weird looks from the old timers & figure out whose blinds want to be stolen. A/

Raising Kane · #7 12-19-2005, 10:40 PM

I don't play many tourneys but the Gilpin is suppose to have the best. When playing live action there isn't any 3-5 structured that i know of...i know gilpin tried to spread it but there was no interest. The 2-5 at Mile High is the best place to go IMO. The games are always soft..plus if you are playing during the weekend (Fri-Sun) they have a lot smaller rake than the Lodge and the Gilpin. Both the Lodge and Gilpin have a $7 total rake ($5 for rake + $2 for bad beat). That reason alone keeps me away from both places on weekends. Golden Gates is the new one opening up on the 22nd. And from what i hear their room may be the nicest one...and they won't have the $7 rake. I don't know if it's true or not but i heard from many people that the Gilpin is in big trouble because they run so many tourneys that it's not making all that much money and their dealers are going elsewhere because the money over there is terrible compared to the other places. Whether it's true or not i don't know but it sure makes sense. Anyway...happy hunting!

Raising Kane · #8 12-19-2005, 10:44 PM

I forgot...Mile High has a tourney everyday at noon for $60 plus they have a few others at other times during the week. They don't take a rake on tourneys. Also, when Golden gates opens up i heard that they are starting their bad beat at $100,000. Central Station also has tourneys and here is a link CCS

UncleSalty · #9 12-20-2005, 12:04 AM

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I forgot...Mountain High has a tourney everyday at noon for $60 plus they have a few others at other times during the week. They don't take a rake on tourneys. Also, when Golden gates opens up i heard that they are starting their bad beat at $100,000. Central Station also has tourneys and here is a link CCS

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FYP

smoore · #10 12-20-2005, 12:33 AM

Colorado Central Station spreads the best structure in a tournament. Gilpin is a solid second but the blind structure is too fast in the few I've played there.

edit: soft 2-5 games all over town, rack up if it's only 3 to a flop. Surprisingly, Fortune Valley (old Harveys) now has lots of action where it used to be a rock garden. According to the dealers, table 9 is always action city. There's no particular reason why it would be but my two sessions on that table cannot refute this claim.