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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:

Ameristar Spread Games

• $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

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.

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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.

Even as the US begins to reopen its economy, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on plans for large gatherings worldwide.

Last week, PokerStars postponed the much-anticipated second run of its PokerStars Players Championship(PSPC).

The PSPC had been slated for August as part of this year’s European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona, traditionally one of the hottest stops on tour. Given the uncertainty surrounding live poker and international travel, however, PokerStars is pumping the brakes on the whole thing.

Neither EPT Barcelona nor the PSPC are entirely canceled. Both will run sometime in 2021, though PokerStars is still working on locking down the dates.

It is far from the only live poker tournament impacted by the global coronavirus outbreak.

Wsop 2021 Schedule

Most notably, the World Series of Poker announced in April that it was postponing its summer series. The World Poker Tour has to date canceled two stops entirely and postponed 17 others.

Indeed, there’s almost no live poker of any significance happening anywhere in the world for the time being.

A black cloud with a Platinum lining

The announcement didn’t contain only bad news, however. PokerStars will make use of the delay to give away additional satellite packages known as Platinum Passes.

Unlike the first time around, PokerStars has yet to establish how many passes it plans on awarding for the next event. The general assumption, however, was that the number would be similar to the 320 it awarded for the inaugural event.

Along with the bad news about the delay, PokerStars revealed that it will award an additional 80 passes for a total of 400. It will also have to find new ways to award some passes it originally allotted to the Moneymaker’s Road to PSPC Tour. A few of those events have already been canceled due to the pandemic.

The extra Platinum Passes aren’t the only cause for excitement either.

EPT Barcelona tends to be the best-attended stop on the tour, including a record-setting 2019 Main Event with nearly 2,000 entries. Add to that the fact that players will be itching to return to the felt after many months without live poker, and there’s a good chance that the second PSPC will blow its predecessor out of the water.

PSPC a key marketing tool for PokerStars

The second PSPC has already been a long time coming.

The inaugural event took place in January 2019 at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas as part of an attempt to reboot the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA). It also served as an olive branch to professional players unhappy with the path PokerStars was taking with increased rake and scaled-back rewards.

The 2019 event carried a $25,000 buy-in and was meant to be the most accessible tournament in history for those stakes. In addition to making the event rake-free, PokerStars spent the entire year leading up to it awarding 320Platinum Passes.

The result was a resounding success.

The tournament drew 1,039 entries between Platinum Pass winners and direct buy-ins, creating a $26 million prize pool. Ramon Colillas, a 30-year-old former fitness trainer from Spain, ultimately won the $5.1 million top prize after qualifying for free via one of those Platinum Passes.

A new venue for next PSPC

While the PSPC was a hit, it failed to redeem the PCA. Players have voiced numerous complaints about Atlantis over the years, and PokerStars finally elected to discontinue the event in 2020.

The PSPC needed a new home.

PokerStars chose EPT Barcelona as another high-profile stop, but that meant hosting the PSPC in August instead of January — and therefore a 19-month wait between the first and second events. Now the wait will end up being over two years.

Given what a marketing coup that first PSPC was, the delay is doubly unfortunate for PokerStars.