That would conflict with the existence of props unless there is a gaming reg that has a carve out for props.

^ that carve out for props does in fact exist

Moved to the Colorado Springs area a few months ago. Found this thread while looking for info on the Colorado poker scene. Picked up a lot of info from you guys 😃 . Sounds like black hawk is the better area no doubt. I may eventually take the 2 1/2 hour drive up there but for now it appears that ill be headed up to cripple creek. It looks the rose is the only option? I would be looking to play 1-2 he and occasionally some low buy in tournies. Curious as to how busy the rose is on weekdays and weekends? Would it be worth trying to make it sunday for the 12:30 hold em tourney or is the turnout not worth it? I was thinking about trying to play that and then sit at cash later. Thanks for any help

I think there is a tournament at Wildwood on Sundays as well. I have only played in a couple tournaments so far this year, so I couldn't tell you how the turnout will be. I'm guessing max of 3 tables. I usually don't get there until later in the afternoon when I wake up. I do know that they are extremely soft. I will be playing cash Sunday at the Rose. The Rose is your only option for 2-100.

Didn't make it up there for the tourney. Still debating whether or not I wanna go up today. If you do go and see this could you post an update with how active the tables are today?

Hi everyone,
I'm new to Colorado games and was wondering the basics for entering an Ameristar game, for lets say 2-5. So I buy in for $100, which is max right? Am i allowed to rebuy for another $100 after i go through the blinds? What does the average player play with behind his stack? if there is a specific rule chart someone could link? Thanks!

There is no max buyin. There's a max bet. So, you can sit at the 2-5 table with $4k or any other amount. All of the bets and raises are capped at $100. So, blinds are 2 and 5, and UTG raises to $20. You're next and you could call the $20 or raise to anywhere from $35 to $120 (I think). This is spread limit, not capped NL. You could put $400 in on the flop with a $100 bet and 3 raises.

Spread limit is confusing. Honestly, just go play the 30/60 limit game. It plays bigger and is much more fun.

Cool thanks for the info. Anyone know why midstakes hasn't taken off yet?

Midstakes limit is huge, as long as you want to play 30/60 with a 50/100 kill or the occasional 50/100 game. There aren't many places in the country where games this big run regularly. I think BigBadBabar has a thread on Small Stakes Limit with a collection of the regular 20/40 or higher LHE games in the country.

For NL (or spread)? All the 1/2 NL players think that the spread game is completely different. For most practical purposes playing with $100 to maybe $300 stacks, they're wrong, imo. Still, you have the TV generation who naturally just think "that's not real poker" and don't understand that natural bet sizes make the game play about the same. For 2/5, you'd think the spread limit would matter more. I'm not sure how popular it is, because the LHE game is more fun for me (it is so much faster and you can play more hands). Once you hit like 5/5 or 5/T blinds, I think the spread matters more. Even though spread limit is a great game, who likes it? The limit guys think the blinds are too small and the NL guys want to be able to ship it all at once. The only people I've heard talking about 2/5 are people who want to shot take to the 30/60 game. Could be there is a huge community of 2/5 players quietly crushing and loving every minute of it.

Happy 6th anniversary of $100 max bet poker! For those of you really new, it was $5 max bet for a long time, and the "big game" was 5-5 blinds.

Boulder's own DougL had this to say in his well back then. Was the hotel at the Ameristar open back then, I can't really recall?

Did anybody here remember the start of the 30/60 game? I was a latecomer and wasn't playing much live poker back then but I did take a few shots at the 5-100 O8 game at the Gates, it was pretty wild action, not nearly as exciting in its current incarnation at Ameristar.

As someone with poor timing, was in Vegas for the week that BH opened $100 betting.
I was wrong about nearly everything predicted. Ameristar was open in some form. They hosted the non-smoking room during the 2-5 and 5-5 era. Don't recall when they went from Hyatt to Ameristar.
It seemed like 20/40 started it and then the game went to 30/60 at some point. Games on Stars were so convenient, driving up in the early days seems pointless and less profitable.

Thoughts of a $5 max still make me shutter.

Believe Ameristar bought the Hyatt property around 2006 but didn't officially open ("grand opening") as Ameristar until 2009-10?

Has anyone stayed at Lady Luck before?

Last big BBJ just hit at the must-move 30/60 game, about $194K. One reg, one semireg, and 3 people gone from table share including the guy who walks more than anyone 😀

Flop QQ2 with 2 spades, turn A spades, River 3 spades. Guy with 54ss didn't realize he made a steel wheel and just called, thought his flush was no good, good thing he rolled over his hand!

No, I wasn't at the table, waiting for a seat

At ameristar?

Ya, I guess I thought 30/60 game made that self-evident, sorry for the confusion

Actually after I posted that I said same thing to myself about 30/60 making it obvious

Speaking of the obvious because of 30/60 I'm shocked a table doesn't start at the gates since they will double the high hand payout on a 30/60 table out of the company's pocket not the pool.

How badly did the 3 away whine & complain they should get $ when they returned?

I can hear it now... "If I wasn't away from the table it wouldn't have hit."

One of 'em got taken care of by his friend, one of 'em is always walking and whining so nobody was giving him anything and the third guy hadn't yet taken a hand and didn't really have much to complain about (but did anyways)

Man that's bad timing for the new player. I'm sure the walker made sure to lament his never-ending bad luck for approximately the next 90 mins straight.

Hope your WSOP trip was good. Curious if those Modiano cards were as god-awful as everyone says?

The walker is one of the least-liked regulars at the 30 game. He walks for 45 minutes about every two hours then whines incessantly if the game is short-handed. His main attribute is that he's stupid weak-tight and very easy to play against. But nobody would give that guy anything, guaranteed.

My WSOP was ok, thanks. Really nothing special, there's a TR buried in LVL somewhere.

The Modiano cards were bad. They were very thin and creased easily. I didn't notice any problems during the tourneys but at the cash games it seemed problematic. Plus, clubs and spades were very similar looking, my vision is not great anymore and when I was in an end seat I had some problems telling them apart. Bottom line is that they were sucky but then so were a lot of the dealers, so...

As a slight aside I thought the high limit cash section at the WSOP was very poorly run this year, last year the floors seemed to have everything under control but this year there weren't enough floors or chip runners.

Didn't realize they were also using those cards in cash games @ Rio. Wow, that's awful.

Because of the BS no cash plays rule. Governments gonna gov. When it benefits their wallets

Cash not playing any longer is a giant win for all non-angle shooters and those who wish to play more than 10 hands an hour while asking repeatedly, "How many bills to you have behind? Could you could them again please?"