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The poker scene in Colorado has significantly improved since gambling was legalized in 1991. Casinos in the state host frequent tournaments, from casual daily walk-in games to high-profile events like the Colorado Poker Championship.

The poker rooms themselves have also improved, finally becoming larger and more elegant, and offering higher stakes. Most nights of the week you can find action at a wide assortment of poker rooms around Colorado.

Black Hawk Poker Rooms & Tournament Information

Carved into Gregory Gulch about 40 miles outside of downtown Denver, the historic former mining town of Black Hawk features 15 casinos and more than 1,000 hotel rooms. Black Hawk is home to some of the largest and most active poker rooms in Colorado.

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COVID-19 Restrictions/Changes: Six player maximum per table, mandatory face masks.

The Golden Gates Casino & Poker Parlour in Black Hawk features live poker 24 hours a day, seven days a week at up to 17 poker tables. Poker is available in a variety of limit games, as well as three-spread limit games. Golden Gates Casino features a number of tournaments, including the annual Colorado Poker Championship held in May, as well as a monthly freeroll and other events, including $340 monthly Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo tournament.

Ameristar Poker Room

COVID-19 Restrictions/Changes: Only 9 tables open instead of the usual 22. Six player maximum per table, mandatory face masks.

Ameristar Casino’s poker room is one of the largest in Colorado. It offers 21 poker tables featuring games ranging from $1/$3 limit to $50/$100 and several spread limit games:

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• $1-3-100 Spread Hold
• $2-5-100 Spread Hold
• $2-5-100 Spread Big-O
• $30-60 Limit Hold‘em
• $50-100 Limit Hold’em

The poker room at Ameristar features a bad beat jackpot that pays whenever quad 8’s or better are beaten. To win, both players must have at least two cards that play in their hands, and there must be at least $30 in the pot. Ameristar players earn $1 per hour in comps on all play in the poker room.

Ameristar is a cash-only poker room and doesn’t host any poker tournaments.

The Isle of Capri Casino

COVID-19 Restrictions/Changes: Six player maximum per table, mandatory face masks, tournament play suspended.

Located on the second floor of the Isle of Capri Casino in Black Hawk, the Isle’s recently renovated poker room offers hold’em games and occasionally Omaha games, 24 hours a day. The poker room features tableside drink service and 10 flatscreen TVs on the wall. The main game at the Isle is 1-2-100 spread, however, 4-8 and many other options are often available on any one of the casinos 11 poker tables.

In addition to larger buy-in events, the Isle hosts tournaments every Friday and Saturday.

The Isle also features Aces Cracked bonuses. The first five players each day to have aces cracked win $100.

Cripple Creek Poker Rooms & Tournament Information

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Until recently, Cripple Creek’s spot for live poker was the Midnight Rose, but the pandemic waylaid those plans. The poker room at the Rose is going to be closed until sometime next year.

Central City Poker Rooms & Tournament Information

As of this writing, Central City does not offer live poker.

Colorado Sweepstakes & Online Poker

Online casinos aren’t legal in Colorado, but there are still options for Colorado card sharks who want to play some poker on the go.

Sweepstakes poker is a legal option for online poker in Colorado, and Global Poker is the premier destination to play online. Global Poker’s format gives players the chance to win cash prizes by competing in poker games and touraments.

Players can purchase packages of gold coins that include sweeps coins as a bonus. While gold coins provide no monetary value, sweeps coins give players access to tournament play and other events where cash prizes go to those who finish among the top players.

Colorado Poker FAQ

Yes. Colorado casinos have poker rooms with live dealers, many open 24 hours a day.

For now, only Black Hawk offers live poker. There are 3 casinos in the mountain town where you can find a game:

• Ameristar
• Isle Casino
• Golden Gates Casino

Sort of. Online gambling is still illegal in Colorado, but sweeps casinos, like Global Poker, give CO card sharks a chance to scratch their poker itch along with the chance to win cash prizes.

Absolutely. The Golden Gates hosts No Limit Hold’em tournaments, with buy-ins ranging from $60 to about $200, nearly every day. The Isle used to host tournaments, but they’ve been suspended because of the pandemic. The Golden Gates is also home of the Colorado Poker Championship.

Yes. Colorado poker rooms are sticking closely to state law. Only 6 hands are allowed at a table at any given time, and some casinos have a limited number of tables open, so check with the casino’s poker room before you head out. Just like elsewhere in the casinos, face masks are required for all players.

For now, the maximum bet allowed by law in any Colorado casino is $100. That same limit applies to poker tables for cash games.

For the second time this year, the Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) held its $1,650 Main Event in East Chicago at the Ameristar Casino, which drew a massive 579 entries and created an $833,760 prize pool. In the end, it was Wisconsin poker pro Josh Reichard who emerged victorious to claim a $186,812 first-place prize and a $3,500 HPT Championship package.

It was also his second HPT trophy and his second-best live cash with his best performance coming from the same event last November when he won his first HPT at Ameristar East Chicago title for $221,293.

When asked about how he feels about the victory, Reichard told PokerNews: “The goal is to win. I fell like everyone is at their peak happiness after a win. 578 players didn't win. Even if they won money, they aren't extremely happy, so you know winning is nice if you can pull it off. ”

The first final table elimination came just moments before the first break of the day after Michael Koh lost the majority of his stack when he was out flopped by Eddie Blumenthal. The very next hand would see Koh get his remaining 35,000 in the middle against start-of-day chip leader Mike O'Neill and Kevin Albers. Koh held ace-ten and couldn't connect with either of his cards as O'Neill would scoop the pot with a made hand of sixes to send Koh out the door in ninth place.

Once players returned from break, a flurry of eliminations occurred starting with Nikola Budzakoski, was involved in a three-way pot between Albers and Reichard. Budzakoski got his remaining chips in the middle after the flop holding an open-ended straight with jack-ten and was called by Reichard who flopped a set of nines. Budzakoski was unable to complete his straight and was boated out the door in eighth place.

A few short hands later would see Reichard claim another final table knockout in Albers. In a battle of blinds, Reichard opened the action with a raise and Albers moved all in for his last 1.1 million getting called. Albers had live cards holding king-ten offsuit but was dominated after Reichard, who held ace-queen, paired his on the flop. The only hope for Albers was to hit running cards but it wasn't meant to be as he took his exit in seventh place for $24,908.

The next barrage of eliminations happened so quick if you looked down and back up, you'd notice three players were gone an in instant. Henry Zou, Brett Apter, and O'Neill all fell victim to David McDermott in just a matter of minutes.

The first of the back-to-back eliminations started when Zou open-jammed his short stack of 615,000 in the middle from late position and McDermott came over the top from the cutoff. Action was on Apter who decided to come along holding less chips than McDermott. Once the players revealed their hands, Zou and Apter saw they were in trouble holding each other's outs with McDermott holding the weapons of mass destruction. Zou saw a glimmer of hope flopping a gutterball but neither he nor Apter could get out of the explosion range taking home sixth and fifth place finishes as they headed for the exit.

McDermott wasn't finished there as O'Neill would be gone the very next hand. McDermott limped in from under the gun and O'Neill got sneaky checking his option from the big blind holding pocket jacks. The flop fell nothing higher than an eight and O'Neill lead out for 200,000. McDermott then raised all in and O'Neill snap-called licking his chops thinking he had McDermott right where he wanted him only to see his opponent flopped top-set with pocket eights. O'Neill's fate was sealed as he wouldn't catch another hook to stay alive and he took home $52,555 for his fourth-place finish.

One level later would see the third-place finisher take his leave as Blumenthal became another victim of Reichard's onslaught. Blumenthal tried making a short-stack move holding king-five but ran into the pocket nines of Reichard. Blumenthal held an overcard but couldn't connect and he took home $75,637 for his efforts.

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The start of heads-up action saw Reichard hold a 2:1 chip advantage over McDermott and it took a little less than one hour for a winner to emerge. There were a few back-and-forth tussles but in the end, Reichard would chip down McDermott until he had nothing but bread crumbs. McDermott would eventually take $115,406 for his second-place finish.

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'I felt good coming into the heads-up match,' Reichard told PokerNews after the win. 'I think raising majority of the hands with the big blind ante, if he were to fold, I'd be taking chunks of his stack. I knew eventually we'd get it in so I was willing to risk that and keep chipping away at him.'

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