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Dealer Deb Ortiz works the Ultimate Texas Hold ‘Em Table at the Wildwood Casino in Cripple Creek on Thursday, April 29, 2021. This weekend will be the debut of no-limit betting in three mountain gambling towns, including Cripple Creek, Black Hawk and Central City. (Photo by Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette)
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Norma Engelberg/Pikes Peak Newspapers
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Dealer Deb Ortiz works the Ultimate Texas Hold ‘Em Table at the Wildwood Casino in Cripple Creek on Thursday, April 29, 2021. This weekend will be the debut of no-limit betting in three mountain gambling towns, including Cripple Creek, Black Hawk and Central City. (Photo by Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette)
Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette
Norma Engelberg/Pikes Peak Newspapers
Norma Engelberg/Pikes Peak Newspapers
Betting limits at Colorado casinos will soon be history
Following the passagen of Amendment 77 in November individual casinos can now set their own limits starting Saturday. Author: Denver Gazette Updated: 11:21 AM MDT April 30, 2021
COLORADO, USA Colorado voters will give casinos and three mountain gambling towns an early Christmas on Saturday with the debut of no-limit betting.
Don t expect bet limits to completely disappear they will be set by individual casinos instead of state law. Most casinos are expected to adopt limits between $500 and $1,000 per wager, but likely will allow higher limits approaching $2,500 for their best customers, according to casino managers in Cripple Creek.
Cripple Creek has always had the allure of riches, first as a gold mining town and now as a gambling haven.
Cripple Creek came to life after cowboy Bob Womack discovered gold in Poverty Gulch in 1890. Located at a lofty 9,500 foot elevation, 87 miles north of Pueblo, Cripple Creek and its neighboring town of Victor once boasted 500 mines that produced more than 22 million ounces of gold.
Cripple Creek was named a National Historic Landmark in 1961. But it’s historic buildings did not receive a boost until Colorado voters approved limited stakes gambling in 1991 and Cripple Creek experienced a revival.
As a result, gambling revenues generated funds that have gone into painstaking restoration of the Victorian-era buildings along Bennett Avenue, many of which house the city’s nine casinos.
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Dealer Deb Ortiz works the Ultimate Texas Hold ‘Em Table at the Wildwood Casino in Cripple Creek on Thursday, April 29, 2021. This weekend will be the debut of no-limit betting in three mountain gambling towns, including Cripple Creek, Black Hawk and Central City. (Photo by Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette)
Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette
Norma Engelberg/Pikes Peak Newspapers
Norma Engelberg/Pikes Peak Newspapers