State law was amended last year allowing towns and cities to set different hours than set by state law. I'm kind of surprised that Cripple Creek did it before Blackhawk.

Glad you enjoyed the Rose, come back up sometime. The O8 game gets a lot crazier then it was last week. Some of the regulars with deep pockets were in Vegas for the $1500 O8.

will be in denver-vail for a week soon, looking forward to it

Havent been for a few months, so it might have changed, but Lodge offers a poker rate of $40 for a room, which must be paid for with Rewards Bucks (whatever they call their comps). You're comped $2/hour of play there.

Ameristar poker room rate is 80 I believe. Not sure if available weekends.

Still the same, hasn't changed

Is this available all 7 days? Play 20 hours straight then get a room?

Yes, including holidays. Only problem is there are only ~60 rooms and it's often filled up on the weekends a couple weeks in advance.

well that would really would screw it up for people not from the area (meaning without anywhere else to go home to). otherwise u could stay there several weeks or months. just play 20 hours straight, take a long break sleeping, play 20 hours straight, take a long break sleeping, rinse and repeat perpetually. how would u know in advance when ur 20 hours would be ending a few weeks ahead?

You wouldn't. You think they want poker players taking up valuable weekend rooms for $40?

Doubt they want a poker player taking up the room when a poker player is worth just north of $10 an hour and a tables or slot player is worth much more

Local Colorado kid wins the Millionaire Maker for $1.2M!!

http://www.wsop.com/news/2015/Jun/62...MPIONSHIP.html

I guess it's Adrian's first ever cash at the WSOP, and at one point he was down to 6 big blinds. Chip and a chair...

Congratulations Adrian!!

Nice score for a local EE. Watched a decent chunk of it.

Streamed most of it myself. Great win and well done!

Nice score.

Not the Colorado-based EE I was hoping would win MM😉, but GG Adrian, congrats!

You were cleaning up the Bellagio 100/200 games, last I heard. Was everyone from CO (other than me) in Vegas last week? Did we get another table at the B that was > 80% CO residents?

I ran good during my 45 minutes in that hyperaggresive game, but it wasn't much fun so I took my 40/80 seat when it became available. I did cash in MM, too. But yeah, we're all here drinking IPAs and old vine Zins and wondering if you're every gonna actually play again 😉

I've been lurking for a while. This is a great thread. I went to Ameristar last weekend for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed the play there. I live and work in Cripple Creek. My biggest issue with my area is that I don't have much choice when it comes to playing poker. 1 of the 2 rooms doesn't run a 100 game at all. The other room usually only runs 2-10 games on my days off. My days off are Sun-Tue and the bus from the city doesn't run on Mondays and Tuesdays. I'm lucky to find a game. The Rose usually has a couple 100 games going on Sundays, so I am stuck playing 1 day per week right now.
It's been getting to the point that I am looking to relocate closer to Black Hawk. I would like to be in an area that has tables continuously running. I don't think it would be feasible for me financially to travel and stay in a hotel for 2 nights every week, and I'm not interested in playing at the Isle for 4 hours to get a discounted room. Plus, I have a couple dogs and a girlfriend that would all have something to say about that. Anyways, I have an IT background as a Network Engineer so work wouldn't be too hard to find. I used to work in Denver and hated it, but I am curious about the Boulder area. I think Quantph (I've been reading your 30/60 thread) and a few others are from the Boulder area. I was wondering how the drive is to Black Hawk?

From south Boulder about 55 minutes with light traffic. On Fridays after work it can be 20-30 minutes longer depending on time/weather/holiday weekend/accident on 93 etc. I like living in Boulder, my job is here, good restaurants and easy access to trails, but it's expensive here. If you want less expensive and better access to BH try Golden

+1

Evergreen?

You're not really going to live in town and have much less than a 30 minute drive to the casinos. If gaming access is really important, maybe live closer to BH to reduce your drive home. I did the Bouler-BH drive on a lot of Fridays after work. Having a job that you can leave a little earlier than the standard rush helps. Still, narrow mountain roads mean it might just take a while. The drive also might tempt you into making poor car investments of the convertible kind. I was generally happy to go up there, it was the > hour drive home after playing that was always hard.

Thanks for the input, guys. I will look into Golden and Evergreen as well. I received an email this morning from the IT manager at a Black Hawk casino. He is interested in my background. I'm going to interview and hear what he has to say.

Just a heads-up (in case you weren't aware)... you generally can't gamble at any casino you work at. Some places my be lax on poker since you aren't playing against the house, but I think that'd be the exception and not the rule.

Good looking out. Yes, I am aware. I currently have my gaming license and made sure not to get hired on at the only poker spot in town.

I'm pretty sure it's gaming regulations, not just casino policy, that prohibits employees from gambling where they work in Colorado.