Did isle stop their $5 hr promo to play 1-3? Don't see it on bravo anymore... Seems like it was slow up there this week, think Easter will hurt the action this weeked?

If I remember right the $5/hr 1-3 promo was only through March 17th. In any event I know it was a limited time only. Yeah it seemed slower but I thought maybe it was because the big bad beat hit up there recently. Hopefully it was just random. Not sure about the action this weekend, but I'll be at the Isle and/or the Gates and/or the Lodge on Saturday.

Can anyone tell me if the $3/$6 limit game runs at the Ameristar? Their website advertises it, but I've never seen it.

The same question about the $2/$5 spread limit at the Lady Luck. They have it on their site, but I didn't know if this ever ran in reality.

Thanks.

Ameristar gets $4/$8, have never seen a $3/$6, and I believe LL spreads a lot of $2-$10 spread.

LL does spread mostly 2-10 but it will quite often spread a 2-5 if there's enough interest. It's mostly a matter of dealer availability. There's usually 3 dealers max working during the day and if they are all pitching 2-10 there won't be a 2-5 unless a table breaks.

+1... never seen 3/6 running there either.

It seems there is a developer interested in building a large casino down in the metro Denver area (near Mcintyre and 48th in Golden/Arvada). The design includes a 5,500 sq ft poker room. The time table is sometime during 2014 - 2015 for development, but construction hinges on state approval. We'll see what happens but this would be great. No more drive to Blackhawk.

What are the chances of approval? close to 0?

I'm thinking this.

IF it happens I would expect BH to become a ghost town and for multiple casinos to go up in Denver.

Agree it doesn't seem likely. Source?

Hmm. A gambling monopoly near a major metropolitan area? Why yes, that may interest a developer or two.

The problem is, this would require a signature gathering process, and a statewide ballot measure. So far, there is nothing like that for this year's ballot.

Pueblo was going to do this a while back, but the tribe that was trying to get it done did not want to go by the CGC rules. I don't think they wanted to have a betting limit. It died soon after. Would of been awesome seeing how I live in Fountain, aka North Pueblo.

Where did you hear this? Can't find anything online.

probably just the usual LTBC trying to stir the pot. Make something up and try to get a response. I liked it better when he was banned. Here's a link to what is permitted in our great state: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite.../1213781235153

No way its happening.

Anybody playing that 5-100 Omaha 8 at Lodge? I played it during WSOP and would love if it would stay at Lodge or Ameristar

When and where does everybody think the best 1-1 or 1-2 games are tomorrow (on a sunday)? 1 pm until about midnight? Do the games get good earlier? Should I just go wherever has the most games (Ameristar most likely)?

One of the biggest weaknesses of the American way of life is our decision making is driven by compassion rather than sound economic theory. 'Saving' a town, albeit one small little town of hundreds in Colorado, one that happened to thrive at one point because of mining then went by-the-way-side after the decline of mining by putting up a bunch of casinos to keep the town alive and sustainable is a massively bad decision.

The casinos should have been built within or closer to the metro area, or not at all. Making people drive 45 min to 1.5 hours to go to the casinos is ridiculous. It's terrible for the employees, the patrons, and the casino owners. A metro area casino means more money in employees' pockets, more money in patrons' pockets, and more money in owners' pockets. The hotel revenue is a small percentage of the overall revenue, so to argue that a casino location that is further from a major population center, causing more folks to pay to spend the night there, is a poor one.

The casinos would be busier if they were closer to Denver. It's that simple. Most casinos around the nation, excluding tribally-run ones, are close or within large population centers. Commerce, Bicycle, Las Vegas, St Louis, Chicago, etc etc.

Don't think anyone would disagree with any of this. I'm sure most of us would love the casinos to be closer to the Denver area, but it's a zoning issue which will likely never change.

Yeah, that all makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, this is just another example of concentrated benefits and diffuse costs trumping good policy.

I don't think trying to "make them spend the night" had anything to do with it. The voters were reluctant and the only way to get it to pass was to send casino's far out of public view. Eventually they will come down from the hills. I've always thought it would make sense to do a nice zone out by the airport. Nothing is there, nobody wants to build houses there anyway, it's (soon) serviced by light rail, and what better way for me .. I mean everyone .. to kill time before a flight.

That is quite possibly the worst idea I have ever heard, and perhaps worse than the current situation. Are you just making up this stuff?

First, having casinos near the airport is no better than having them in Blackhawk. The airport is not near any significantly populated part of the Denver area. The drive is going to be just as much of a drawback as the drive to blackhawk, and what's worse, you lose the scenic part of it; the only thing that makes it slightly worthwhile.

Second, the casinos are not going to make their way downhill, not after the millions of dollars that have spent excavating and building them up the hill.

Third, I'm afraid more of the US population lives under christian principle than originally thought. What is so frightening about gambling that it has to be so restricted? Limits, location, restrictions, etc.

Fourth, terrorism and the worldwide endemic of paranoia has ruined our lives in so many ways. Who would have ever imagined terrorism and the post-911 world would have lead to the prohibition of online poker? TSA, body scanners, wire tapping, money laundering, and on the list goes

Yes, I never claimed otherwise.

You live in Lakewood don't you. Sorry about that. In your case, that is true. For the rest of us, I suspect flying along at 85 mph on the beltway will be a more attractive option than sitting behind grandma doing 30 up the canyon, despite how scenic it is. Also, see my comment re: "serviced by light rail")

You may be right. But there were also people that thought building a casino in the middle of the desert was a ludicrous idea.

Hey, I'd vote for it, I'm just saying that if you look at proposed zoning and casinos that try to get built, there is an enormous local outcry based on fear of increased crime, traffic, etc... (cross reference Wal-Mart and Strip Club proposals)

I think you went off the reservation here bro .. I got nothing.

On a separate topic, someone in this community thread help me out.

Once upon a time, back when the mountain casinos were just getting started, there was this "poker only" place right on 119 in Blackhawk. If you were coming up the canyon it would have been on the right side, about 200 yards past the turn off to go up to Central City.

I want to say its name was Poker Palace .. but can't be sure. It was a cool place. Several card tables, a service area, and a few machines for the wives/railbirds.

Anyone recall the name of it?

Oh look, LTBC is douching it up again.

Yeah, I'd be willing to bet most of the poker players in CO would prefer driving to DIA over Blackhawk. The "scenic" part of the drive up the mountains isn't all that special, and gets old when you have to make the drive 4-5x a week like me.

I don't really buy that the location of a casino is all the important. Gamblers will gamble.