In Case You Needed a Reason to go to Denver…

Hemant, I have a bed for you if you make it. And the Church is less than half a mile from my house. 😀

“Church” is a pretty cool club, actually.  It’s a legit old stone church, stained-glass windows, gothic architecture,  the whole nine yards.  (I’ve lived in Lakewood for about a year and a half)

In my younger days there was a club nearby my place called the “Temple Club” inside an old synagogue.  It was the best place in the whole city to go on a Friday night.

The community despised it.  I think they eventually threw their weight around enough to shut it down.

The Church is a great club in Denver. I used to go there on Sunday nights for their goth night downstairs. The funny thing was you had to walk through the main levels’ Salsa night to get there 🙂 I miss Denver.

Those poker chips look cool. I want a set.

Ahh I miss The Church!  Love the techno battles and the goth room.  Plus it has (or at least used to have) 18 and up nights so its the first club I ever went to.  More reasons to miss Colorado :(.

I’d say “finally a church that I can attend” but the truth is, I go to church whenever I have a business meeting it Pittsburgh PA: The Church Brew Works. A microbrewery & restaurant in a real church.

I read this post and immediately got excited. Then I read
the rules.  It reads like the winner
doesn’t get any money but that the players will be eligible to win raffle
prizes instead. Am I misunderstanding that or is that how it has to done to be
in accordance with Colorado law? I mean, I understand this is a charity thing,
but I think some sort of incentive for winning would attract more players and
more re-buys and add-ons. (Not to mention make the action more interesting.)

For the record, I think this is a great idea and I’d love to
see a much larger and more profitable (both for the FBB and the winning
players) version happen in Las Vegas or possibly Atlantic City, anywhere where
we could really do it right. I think with the right structure and location we
could easily attract players who don’t even care that they are in a charity
tournament, which would open it up to people who would usually not give money
to our cause. (Some might even play just for the chance to win first and stick
it to the atheists.) Of course, there’d also be people like me who would give a
large portion of their prize money to the charity.

As a lover of the game I’d love to come but from a pragmatic
perspective, I couldn’t go out to Denver for a tournament with no chance of
making some money.