i can stop any time i want!

I'm guessing ante only didn't run and he is butt hurt.

It is somewhat truth but it is free country and you more than welcome to quit. I think that it is quite cheap entertainment even if you are losing player and comparing with other vices its not that bad and keeps your brain busy(if you choose so). I understand that it is hard to start anything new in BH but the same goes for any other poker location. LA and LV is different just because of the sheer number of players and games. If you want variety - go find mixed games locally or start one( I personally know several mixed games in Denver area).

Let's change gears from that odd post...

Which casino has the best food in terms of quality and price (on a Friday for dinner, for example)? I'll be at the Golden Gates but wanted some of your input. Might do a buffet if it is good/reasonably priced... Thanks!

Quality-wise, Timberline Grill @ Ameristar is head & shoulders above anything else in the area IMO... but also the most expensive.

Can't remember the name, but the steakhouse at the Isle was really good, but pricey of course.

For quality and price, the $7.99 surf and turf deal @ Cafe on 3, Mardi Gras can't be beat.

Timberline at Ameristar, Farraday's at the Isle, and White Buffalo at the Lodge are the best choices (all are somewhat pricey), with Farraday's being my favorite and Timberline a close second. Farraday's also has an awesome happy hour in the bar area where you can fill up on 1/2 off appetizers that are amazing. If a buffet is what you want, I've never had it but I know The Lodge has one with all you can eat crab legs.

Golden Gates/Mardi Gras has close to the worst food options up there, so even though I used to play there exclusively and like the room, I've started to branch out to the other casinos so I can use my comps at nicer restaurants.

Agreed, Southpark. Golden Gates and Mardi Gras food is simply terrible and should only be eaten by the truly hungry, those close to starvation.

The White Buffalo and Timberline are excellent restaurants for Colorado standards, but are certainly not of the caliber you would find on the east or west coast of this great nation. Colorado is NOT a foodie state. That said, I would highly recommend either one of these restaurants. If you want to take someone out to dinner, I'm game! I can prob only pay the tip though, sorry.

In other news, I heard GG was just purchased by another company and the transition is complete. It will only be months before this one goes down too and they either shutter the doors or another dumb company buys this crap of a casino. I just don't know what goes through these CEOs minds. Don't they send out scouts before they purchase a property?

Anyone know where Colorado stands on online poker? If federal legislation does come would this be a state that would opt in since they have a B&M poker scene?

Pretty sure Colorado is a favorable state for online poker, but I can't recall the source.

I think it would depend what the legislation looked like. CO casinos support an intrastate system and the group that lobbies for them has already drafted a bill to allow it (for some reason they don't plan to introduce the bill to the CO General Assembly any time soon, though), but that doesn't mean the same casinos will support opting in to federal legislation where large online poker rooms would dominate over locally operated online poker rooms.

Source: http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news...ine-poker-bill

LTBC, I heard that GG plans to build a hotel adjacent to the property.

I know of a guy going for his key license renewal who had it denied because of online poker. The atty gen is totally against online poker. Also stewing over amendment 64.

its called farraday's(sp).

isle and lodge from my experience are much better steakhouses than ameristar timberline grill.

havn't tried yet but lots of ppl saying that riviera buffet is much improved

wat? how would that happen?

As long as Colorado state can tax online-poker revenue

The dumbass admitted to it.

See what I mean wetdog, that is the worst possible decision they could have made in the history of this world; building a hotel in a market that is already over-saturated. The market cannot bear it! I mean, how many people really come up to blackhawk? How many hotels are in blackhawk? 312?

Boom.

I'm not sure how having another hotel would have any negative affect on the saturation of the poker market. Black Hawk usually sells out every room in town on weekends, and sometimes even weekdays. If anything it'll help the market since it gives more people the opportunity to stay in town, increasing the player pool especially during peak times, thus minimizing the effects of an over-saturated market. Adding people to the effective player pool by giving more lodging options can only help the market, unless I'm missing something.

To be clear, it probably won't add a lot of new players to the player pool, but available lodging can increase the average playing time of the players, and effectively increasing the number of players at the tables at any given time. It's not like they're adding another poker room to the market. They are simply giving players more lodging and amenities.

Maybe you misunderstood it to mean that they're building a new casino. They are only building a hotel onto one of the existing casinos(either GG or Mardi Gras) from my understanding.

It's been talked about forever. Original blueprints for GG have hotel on top of the garage. They just never had money to build it. Im sure, that now with new ownership hopes are high. I saw on GG's facebook page that all tables and chaires were replaced and finally bravo system been installed. Wizard: are u still with GG? How do u like new setup? I didn't have a chance to go play yet.

did you even think before you posted this? makes no sense.

hotel at golden gates would be great(even though i dont see this happening)... especially if they choose to cater to poker players in regards to rates/comps seeing as they are a smaller property as far as pit games and slots.

the more hotels they have in town the easier it is for the casino's to justify comping rooms for the lesser players(such as poker players) because they can't easily sell out the rooms not reserved for big gamblers.

i would suspect black hawk has a much smaller hotel room to casino space ratio than most gambling locations... especially considering that it is almost an hour drive from the nearest populated area.

I think the major point is this:

Blackhawk, sin city of Colorado, has never been, is not, and never will be a poker destination. It is basically a tiny dot on the map. People outside Colorado laugh at Blackhawk. They go, "what do you mean they don't have unlimited gaming, what do you mean you can only bet $100 at a time? I'm never going there, that's ridiculous!"

Blackhawk is merely something to settle for to get your gaming/poker fix, yet still live in a beautiful state for the skiing, scenery, outdoor sports, and quality of life. True poker players would move if areas like LA and Las Vegas had the same scenery, outdoor industry, clean air and quality of life. Those are poker destinations but everything else is sorely lacking, yet crime and dirty air is not. The ozone problem in LV because of the heat is simply not good for your health.

Face it, you and I both know blackhawk is not somewhere you go to play real poker. We play because it simply exists in our state and we have nothing else.

Kapow! Schooled by LTBC

Yes I am still there. It hasn't been updated yet. We were told December if I remember correctly. Not sure if it'll be in before CPC or not. I am excited though. They are going to be pouring money into the poker room amenities finally. From what was told to us from new ownership they're spending a LOT of money on updates over the next year.

i actually worked for a place that was taken over by affinity gaming as well... they updated everything in the casino from the carpet to chairs and layouts on tables so likely this isn't an empty promise . unfortunately the casino manager was a dolt and the place was dying anyways.