Colorado Poker

I have been looking around for a Colorado Poker discussion group, website, or mail list and haven't found one, so I decided to start one via Yahoo! Groups.


The "CO Poker" group was designed for the casino poker community in Colorado. Appropriate discussion: strategies, stories, opinions, organizing home games, and anything else specific to poker in Colorado.


To subscribe, send email to copoker-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/copoker/


I'm not sure what'll come of this group but I figured it would be worth a shot to see if there are any other Colorado lurkers out there.


rachele

There are many colorado players who read this board. I can't think of a better place to post!

Well I was just thinking that people on this board would be bored by discussion of $2-$5 or $5-$5 games, talking about the upcoming BullPen or Midnight Rose tournaments, the new Hyatt room, organizing carpools up the hill, and so on.


There's mailing lists for Bay Area Poker, Mohegan Sun poker, etc... why not Colorado?


That said, only two other people have joined the list thus far. [img]/images/smile.gif[/img]


rh

Some players have posted Colorado hands in the small stakes or beginners forum. They have always gotten decent responses. I won and lost real money (albeit relatively small amounts given the stakes) when I played there, so I think any serious question is appropriate to discuss. Don't live there any more though.

You ever check out that old part of Central City, above and to the left? I think it might once have been called Nevadaville, but now it's just like a freaky ghost town?


I used to tool around there, one time I had a dream that "Ganymede" (Central City) was a tourist haven, but "Old Ganymede" (Nevadaville) was a haunted burial ground above the treeline where goblins - zombies of long-forgotten laborers on, like, the lost "Great Tunnel" of the industrial age - lept out from behind shady, collapsed walls to attack wayward tourists in the mist.


I think I spent too much time searching for the "lost road to Winter Park" opposite the long-collapsed Needle's Eye tunnel - Rollins Pass - but always dead-ended at, like, some impasse at an old railroad trestle. Plus, the whole vision had shades of Sutro Tunnel, and the empty promise of Sutter's Mill.


That whole stretch of wilderness - from Fall River in Estes Park to Fall River by Saint Mary's Glacier - always fascinated me. I have photographs of the whole shady topography - as viewed from the top of Long's Peak - etched in my mind. I skied alone from Estes to Grand Lake in the middle of winter, skied Saint Mary's in August.


What's the name of that sketchy road that runs from behind Central City to Idaho Springs? The sidewinder? The death trap? When there was a rockslide, or a foot of snow and a casino bus went into the river, I had to navigate that road with bald tires. I had a girlfriend in Vail, and I used to rip through there going a hundred late at night en route, I knew every curve. And the snowplows stopped after the school North of Ned.


Here's a million-dollar tip: When driving up that canyon from Clear Creek, always make sure you tailgate someone. That way, you're shielded from a head-on collision!


Feel at home enough yet? Between me and Ed, we know more about Colorado poker than you ever wanted to hear, Rachele H


eLROY

Bizarre dream. Good advice on being behind someone, I did that too but never went 100 on the roads back there. I read a weird case that came out of Gilpin County before they had gambling. Ever go to those awful tourist stores that sold rocks, candles, and fudge? Well this little girl like 4 or 5 years old had an antique slot machine that dispensed fools' gold fall on her. Her mom was watching and saw her crushed. She did not die instantly but rather hung on a while in the crush ward or wherever you go when a slot machine falls on you. Mom got to be by her side when she died the agonizing death. Jury awarded $3500. Gilpin and Jeffco juries are kind of tight. I suspect that they thought the kid was a brat and mom wasn't watching so they screwed them over. I never had a dream about it but always kind of waited for a slot machine to fall on somebody there. When real money is in them they seem to be anchored better though.

there is so much poetic justice in that.

There are a few more that have joined the list!

Yes, you do know about the organized crime games in Denver.The authorities know about you,too.

The road from Central City to Idaho Springs is oficially called the "Virginia Canyon" road. It is informally known as the "Oh, my God!" road. Supposedly some president (Chester A. Arthur?) rode in a wagon on the road and hollered "Oh, my God!"


Another good alternate route is the Golden Gate Canyon road. I sometimes use it on Friday or Saturday after staying till closing. It doen't really save any time, but it's a lot more fun than crawling along with the traffic on the main route. I don't reccomend it if it's snowing. Higher altitude, much steeper grades and tighter curves than the main road