The Gilpin Poker Room

[pseudoswede]

Anyone have a more concrete date on when it will open? I've heard December or January.

Has anyone heard if any of the tables will be non-smoking?

[Rick]

Here is an article on it:

http://denverpoker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=149&highlight=gilpin

[PocketAces]

The latest I have heard is somewhere from mid-Feb to the beginning of March. I also heard for now the room is supposed to be all smoking. It is supposed to be very nice though.

[Rick]

I also heard for now the room is supposed to be all smoking

Well there is still a very small group of players who aren't smoking yet so this will be the incentive they need to start :)

[pseudoswede]

The newest rumor is for an "early February" opening. No other details at this time.

[DenverPokerClub]

I emailed them

scheduled to open in March

[tjholdem]

March 15th 2005 is the "target" date... take taht for what ever it means :?

[coloradotop2]

I know the guys running the room and they are opening march 1st. they will be hiring mid february. anyone interested go talk to Brian Weaver at the Gilpin.

[mikef]

I am REALLY tempted to take a vacation day and play at the Gilpin on their first day.

Anyone else? This means you swede :drink3:

[pseudoswede]

Anyone else? This means you swede :drink3:

Sorry. All of my vacation days have been allocated, and my mother-in-law will be in town that week. :(:(:(:(

[jnewmanco1]

All the more reason to go :twisted:

[pseudoswede]

Gleaned off another website, who gleaned it from another :lol:


Looks like the Gilpin Hotel & Casino will open their new poker room on March 7th or 8th.

They plan to actually have structured games: 1/2 and 2/4 hold em, 7 stud and O/8 instead of the silly 2/5 spread limit (one $2 blind...lol) and 5/5 (two $5 blinds...lol) games that everyone else spreads around here. I've been told that CO is the only state to have a single blind hold em game, but I'm not sure if that's true.

[bigeasy]

the exculber in vegas has a spead limit game with a single blind and I belive the monte carlo also has a game

[tjholdem]

[quote="pseudoswede"] Looks like the Gilpin Hotel & Casino will open their new poker room on March 7th or 8th. [quote]

Looks like a week earlier than I heard. That might be a good day to take off work. mikef....swede...r you guys interested???

[mikef]

I'm as good as there! So close I can skateboard to it!!!! :D

[znamenacek]

FYI - I just called the Gilpin. They say the poker room will open on Thursday (March 10th).

[SpookMeister]

Can't wait for a review... I may need to start going up the hill more than once a year.

[mikef]

I plan on being there on the 10th, I'll post a review in a separate thread. Can't wait to check it out. Poker all day, dinner at Lillian's (very nice medium priced restaurant on the 2nd floor) and then Thursday DPT. Fun Thursday ahead. 8)

[r]

Gilpin is that the name of the casino....wwher is it ...I will be there 2 morrow... :D :D :D

[mikef]

Directions - find your way to Blackhawk first :-)

At the 2nd light, go left, then right. The Gilpin will be on your left. Next to Fitzgerald's, near Bullwhacker's.

[TJ]

I'll be there for the first night.

[pseudoswede]

I dunno if March 10th is the right date.

In the e-mail I received, there's a contest to win a seat for a dinner seminar with David Chiu. It says entries will be accepted between March 12-31.

Anyways, really looking forward to The Gilpin, especially the 2-4 table! I may try to get up there on March 25 in the early afternoon.

[coloradotop2]

David is gonna be there? Nice, you know he started there at the gilpin and learned to play and deal poker in that old room. very nice fella.

[RedRN]

Any news on the actual date?

[Rick]

Tomorrow, 3/10

[alien8]

Are they going to do anything special for the grand opening of the poker room?

[Rick]

Well to be honest, I don't know. It seems they are taking a page from the Lodge Casino and putting 'customer service' on the farthest back burner they can find :evil:

[znamenacek]

Oh, come now, Rick, look at the bright side. A place that treats you like a number, takes the highest rake in town (tied now, I think), doesn't run tournaments, and then rakes money out of the bad beat rake for an "administrative fee".

What's not to like?

[DenverPokerClub]

Oh, come now, Rick, look at the bright side. A place that treats you like a number, takes the highest rake in town (tied now, I think), doesn't run tournaments, and then rakes money out of the bad beat rake for an "administrative fee".

What's not to like?

but you can't beat the fish that play there so all in all it is worth it IMHO :twisted:

[Rick]

Well if they rake/fee it much higher, it will be cheaper to fly to Vegas and play on those ultra cheapy weekend fares they have. :wink: