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| Q: What time does the game start/end?
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| A: The game usually starts at 7:00, there is an on-time bonus for arriving before 6:50pm. We've had games break up anywhere from midnight to 5am, but there is no expectation for anyone to stay any later than they want. We schedule the first two tournaments but we have played as many as six in a night, we will keep going as long as there are five willing participants, there is no official time limit.
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| Q: What can/should I bring?
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| A: Money and whatever you want to drink. I supply some snacks, but if there's something in particular you like to eat while enjoying your favorite beverage feel free to bring it. My snack choices are fairly run-of-the-mill.
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| Q: Since Pete has a keg of beer, it's open bar, right?
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| A: Hardly. To be blunt, I'm taking care of everything else, I'm not buying your drinks too. For beer you basically have three choices:
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- You can bring your own - but if you do please don't feel like you should leave behind what you don't drink because I probably won't drink it. If you do leave something behind, it's fair game for the next event
- You can help yourself to what people have left behind from past events (the fridge is usually full but no guarantees)
- You can, ahem, voluntarily contribute to "the keg fund" and drink my beer
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| For the liquor, basically the same deal. Bring your own, bring a new bottle next time or make a contribution to the keg fund that will cover what you're drinking. A few of our regulars bring liquor and leave it behind, usually seperated from my stuff. I do ask that you respect other folks liquor when they do that, it's usually fairly obvious.
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| Q: Why don't you drink what people leave behind? Not good enough for you?
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| A: Conventional wisdom is that I have about four months from the time I tap a keg to finish it off before the beer starts to go bad. I have no intention of letting that happen and, well, there's only so much I can drink...
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| Q: How much are you looking for in the keg fund?
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| A: Beer costs me about 1/2 what it costs by the six-pack, it's usually a micro-brew amber. I'm looking for you to contribute a fair amount of money for the amount of beer you drink... Please note that although the keg fund is a non-profit enterprise, contributions are not tax-deductible
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| Q: Why all these rules? Isn't this a friendly game?
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| A: Yes, and we want to keep it that way. I've added explanations for some of the rules, just click on the word 'Why' if something doesn't make sense to you. Pretty much all of them come from your host's experiences in casino tournament play, and what I've learned is that there are very good reasons for all of them. We try and run a pretty tight ship and your host believes that while some of them may seem silly at first, they help ensure that everyone leaves the game satisfied that regardless of how the night went for them that they were treated fairly.
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| Q: If I'm first out of a tournament I just have to sit around and wait?
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| A: You're welcome to volunteer to deal or try to organize a cash side-game 'til the next one starts...
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| Q: I don't like having my name on a web page, can you remove it or not have a link for the attendance page?
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| A: The attendance page link is only displayed if you have the cookie, and you can only get the cookie if you click on the link you got in email. Nobody who is not a poker participant can see your name
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| Q: Why can't someone who stumbled on this website ask to be included?
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| A: Colorado state law says that our game is legal as long as there are no rules designed to insure a profit for any of the participants (i.e. if the house were raking the pot it would be illegal) and all of the participants have a relationship outside the poker game. Everyone involved in the game is either a friend of mine, a co-worker of mine or a friend or co-worker of someone else in the game. Sorry, but you have to know someone to join us.
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| Excerpts of a press release from the Colorado State AG office relevent to our game:
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Attorney General Suthers and Gaming Commission Caution Against Illegal Gambling Activities
08/31/2005
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| DENVER Colorado Attorney General John Suthers and Colorado Limited Gaming Control Commission Chairman Natalie Meyer today cautioned Colorado residents against participating in illegal gambling activities. With the increased popularity of internet gambling, televised poker tournaments and sports pools, much confusion surrounds the legality of these activities.
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| Home poker tournaments and office sports pools are allowed under a "social gambling" exception under state law. For an activity to be considered "social gambling," all participants must have a "bona fide social relationship," meaning that they have an established social relationship based upon some other common interest other than the gambling activity, and no one other than the participants can profit from the game or activity in any manner, such as taking part of the pot in a poker game or a sports pool to be compensated for organizing the activity.
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| QUESTIONS & ANSWERS: ILLEGAL GAMBLING
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| Q: What is "social gambling"?
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| A: State law allows "social gambling" among participants who have a "bona fide social relationship" and in which all moneys wagered goes out in prizes. A "bona fide social relationship" means that the parties must have an established social relationship based upon some other common interest other than the gambling activity. Further, participants cannot directly or indirectly participate in "professional gambling," which is defined as "aiding or inducing another to engage in gambling, with the intent to derive a profit therefrom." This generally means that no one other than the players can profit from the game or activity in any manner. The profit does not need to be direct profit. For example, if a liquor establishment or other commercial enterprise derives increased sales or revenues by attracting customers, even without charging a cover or other direct consideration, as the result of gambling taking place at that business, the business is considered to have profited from the activity and the activity would no longer fall under the social gambling exception. These two criteria.a bonafide social relationship and no profit motive must be present for a gambling activity to be considered legal "social gambling." |