Ameristar Poker Room Blackhawk Colorado
Located in Black Hawk, Ameristar features 1,250 slot and video poker machines, 40 table games, and a poker room. It is a smoke-free casino since Colorado has a statewide indoor smoking ban. The Ameristar also is home to a 536-room hotel. Information and Reviews about Ameristar Black Hawk Poker Room in Black Hawk, including Poker Tournaments, Games, Special Events and Promotions. The Ameristar Black Hawk (formerly, the Mountain High Casino) has 22 poker tables and is open from 10a-2a, daily. The room runs a NL tournament Mon-Thu at 2p and a Thu 7p Ladies only tournament. The Ameristar Black Hawk completed a $200mm+ renovation, including the addition of a 33-story hotel tower, full service spa, meeting room and ballroom.
[Ready to play some cards at Golden Gates Poker Room. Photo: Golden Gates Casino] There are plenty of reasons to visit Colorado. Whether it’s access to the skiing, hiking and climbing the mountains offer, the booming beer scene or, yes, the legalized recreational marijuana that has contributed to the Denver’s recent tourism boom, the Centennial State offers plenty of ways to have a good time.More importantly for some, however, is the fact that it’s also the home of some world class poker rooms. Play poker any day of the week in Colorado! Limit and no-limit Texas Hold’em games, live tournaments, and more to find in Colorado’s top poker rooms.
We’ll tell you about some of them and why it’s not just the scenery that makes Colorado worth visiting. Colorado’s got a slew of casinos situated around three main casino towns: Denver’s Black Hawk/Central City and Colorado Springs’ Cripple Creek. In addition you can play poker in legally in two Indian casinos in the southwest part of the state.
With its soaring, skylight ceilings, slate floors, timber beams, and massive floor-to-ceiling stone fireplaces, this two-story casino has a rustic elegance. Its 1,250 slot and video machines, 40 table games and 22 live poker tables add up to great Colorado gaming.
Here are the best poker rooms in Colorado, in no particular order:
1. Ameristar Casino Poker Room – Black Hawk
Ameristar in Black Hawk is one of the biggest rooms around and that alone makes it a draw for a lot of poker players. There are potentially 22 live tables for you to try your hand at. You’ll be doing it in style, too. The venue boasts soaring skylight ceilings, elegant timber beams, slate floors and huge floor to ceiling stone fireplaces. It’s fitting, really, that Ameristar has such a charming rustic lodge feel – it looks out on some stunning views of the Colorado Rockies.
Beyond the poker there are 40 table games as well as 1,250 slot and video machines (including video poker), and that’s before you even get to other attractions such as the regular events and swanky bar.
2. Isle Casino Poker Room – Black Hawk
Isle Casino, also in Black Hawk, has 30 tables for players to settle into. Poker is the most popular game with the locals Texas Hold ‘Em, Bonus 6 and Mississippi Stud are all catered for, while other table games include Buffalo Blackjack, Double Deck Blackjack, three Craps Tables and three Roulette Tables. The poker room is up on the second floor and has a cigarette snack and vending machine, its own restrooms, free drinks with table side service, 10 flat screen televisions and a handy smoking terrace.
If you fancy something more substantial than the vending machine has to offer, you could join the Isle Casino’s fan club. Membership is free and new members get a free buffet after an hour of playing.
Beyond the gaming and dining, the casino has plenty of accommodation options and plays host to a range of entertainment including live music and stand-up comedy.
3. Golden Gates Casino Poker Room – Black Hawk
One of the major venues on the Colorado scene, the Golden Gates Casino is one of the most famous rooms in the state. It has attracted televised games from the Heartland Poker Tour and the Colorado Poker Championship. Separate from the rest of the casino, the ‘Poker Parlour’ has a log cabin design with exposed stonework, wooden beams and luxurious dark brown leather seats.
Another Black Hawk hot spot, it’s open 24 hours and offers players access to no-limit hold ’em, limit hold ’em, and pot-limit Omaha cash games as well as the occasional split-pot game. With table side food service to boot, Golden Gates is one of the most comfortable venues to play a few hands in.
4. The Midnight Rose Poker Room – Cripple Creek
The Midnight Rose is a more intimate affair than some of Colorado’s other offerings and it aims to recreate the feel of those legendary nights playing around the table with your buddies. The only poker room situated in Cripple Creek, it has up to eight tables offering $1/$2-$50, $1/$2-$20, $1/$3-$100, Texas Hold’em daily with $5/$10 7-Card Stud Hi-Lo every Thursday and $5/$10 Omaha Hi-Lo every Saturday.
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Colorado tournaments are known to have some of the highest stakes in the country, and the Midnight Rose offers them right through the weekend, complementing the daily poker through the week. With high ceilings, casual décor and food brought to your table, the Midnight Rose is an easy-going way to make (or lose!) some money.
However you prefer to play, Colorado offers a range of options. From big rooms to cosy lodges, from high stakes to cosy beginner games, there’s something for every type of poker player and it’s all set against the spectacular backdrops of one of America’s most beautiful states.
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| Ameristar Black Hawk | |
|---|---|
| Location | Black Hawk, Colorado |
| Address | 111 Richman Street |
| Opening date | December 20, 2001 |
| No. of rooms | 536 |
| Total gaming space | 57,000 sq ft (5,300 m2) |
| Casino type | Land-based |
| Owner | Gaming and Leisure Properties |
| Operating license holder | Penn National Gaming |
| Previous names | Black Hawk Casino by Hyatt Mountain High Casino |
| Coordinates | 41°14′35″N95°54′36″W / 41.24306°N 95.91000°W |
| Website | blackhawk.ameristar.com |
Ameristar Casino Resort Spa Black Hawk is a casino and hotel in Black Hawk, Colorado, owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn National Gaming.
History[edit]
Plans for the casino were revealed in 1997 by Windsor Woodmont, a company formed by several Dallas-based real estate developers.[1][2]Hyatt Hotels was tapped to manage the casino.[1] Excavation work on the site began in August 1998, but stalled later that year, reportedly because of financing problems related to the arrival of two other large casinos in Black Hawk (the Lodge and the Isle of Capri).[3] Construction resumed in 2000.[3]
The casino opened on December 20, 2001 as the Black Hawk Casino by Hyatt.[4] At opening, it was the largest casino in Colorado, with 57,000 square feet (5,300 m2) of gaming space, containing 1,332 slot machines, 16 blackjack tables and 6 poker tables.[4][5] The casino was designed as the first phase of a destination resort, with later additions planned to include a 350-suite hotel tower, a convention center, nightclubs, a spa, and a mountaintop recreation park connected to the casino by a gondola lift.[6][7]
Revenue in the casino's first year fell short of expectations.[8] As a result, Windsor Woodmont defaulted on payments towards $100 million of bonds that had been issued to finance the construction.[9] Bondholders soon moved to foreclose on the casino, forcing the company to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November 2002.[10] The next year, Hyatt's management agreement was terminated, the casino's name was changed to the Mountain High Casino, and Windsor Woodmont took over operations.[11]Ameristar Casinos bought the property out of bankruptcy in 2004 for $117 million in cash plus $2.5 million in stock.[12][13] It was rebranded under the Ameristar name in 2006, following an $80-million renovation.[14][15]
A hotel tower with 536 rooms was added in 2009 at a cost of $235 million.[16]
Pinnacle Entertainment acquired Ameristar Casinos in 2013.[17] In 2016, Gaming and Leisure Properties bought most of Pinnacle's real estate assets, including Ameristar Black Hawk, in a leaseback transaction.[18][19] In 2018, Penn National Gaming acquired the property's operations as part of its acquisition of Pinnacle.[20][21]
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References[edit]
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- ^ abErika Gonzalez (December 10, 1997). '280-room hotel, casino proposed for Black Hawk'. Rocky Mountain News. Denver, CO – via NewsBank.
- ^Form S-4: Registration Statement (Report). Windsor Woodmont Black Hawk Resort Corp. July 12, 2000. p. 9 – via EDGAR.
- ^ abGeorge Lane (June 3, 2000). 'Workers move mountain for another mega-casino'. Denver Post – via NewsBank.
- ^ abDavid Kesmodel (December 21, 2001). '$150 million Black Hawk casino opens'. Rocky Mountain News. Denver, CO – via NewsBank.
- ^Form 10-KSB: Annual Report (Report). Windsor Woodmont Black Hawk Resort Corp. March 27, 2002. p. 24 – via EDGAR.
- ^George Lane (September 18, 2000). 'A towering resort: Hyatt casino plan dwarfs rivals'. Denver Post – via NewsBank.
- ^David Kesmodel (August 18, 2001). 'Casino will be big win for Black Hawk'. Rocky Mountain News. Denver, CO – via NewsBank.
- ^David Kesmodel (August 17, 2002). 'State's largest casino faces long odds'. Rocky Mountain News. Denver, CO – via NewsBank.
- ^David Kesmodel (November 2, 2002). 'Casino running short of chances'. Rocky Mountain News. Denver, CO – via NewsBank.
- ^David Kesmodel (November 8, 2002). 'Casino files bankruptcy'. Rocky Mountain News. Denver, CO – via NewsBank.
- ^Allison Linn (May 24, 2003). 'Casino takes a second honeymoon'. Rocky Mountain News. Denver, CO – via NewsBank.
- ^Jason Blevins (June 2, 2004). 'Troubled casino finds a buyer'. Denver Post – via NewsBank.
- ^'MO's Ameristar Casinos acquires Colorado's largest casino'. St. Charles Business Record. December 23, 2004 – via NewsBank.
- ^Andy Vuong (April 7, 2006). 'Ameristar ups ante in Black Hawk'. Denver Post – via NewsBank.
- ^Andy Vuong (October 16, 2005). 'Rosy gaming outlook fuels broad expansion'. Denver Post – via NewsBank.
- ^Penny Parker (October 9, 2009). 'Ritter dedicates 'destination resort''. Denver Post – via NewsBank.
- ^Howard Stutz (August 14, 2013). 'Pinnacle Entertainment completes $2.8 billion buyout of Ameristar Casinos'. Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 2017-12-02.
- ^'Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. reaches agreement with Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. to acquire Pinnacle's real estate assets' (Press release). Gaming and Leisure Properties. July 21, 2015. Retrieved 2017-12-02 – via GlobeNewswire.
- ^'Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. completes the previously announced acquisition of the real estate assets of Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc' (Press release). Gaming and Leisure Properties. April 28, 2016. Retrieved 2017-12-02 – via GlobeNewswire.
- ^'Colorado approves Penn National-Pinnacle deal'. GGB News. September 30, 2018. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
- ^Todd Prince (October 15, 2018). 'Penn National Gaming completes $2.8B acquisition of Pinnacle'. Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
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Coordinates: 39°48′00″N105°29′20″W / 39.800°N 105.489°W