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Dorothy Rosby: Playing the waiting game without electronics Page 8

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Murder, mystery and the Dickens Opera House Page 12

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It’s World Series of Poker time!

WHOO HOO - the World Series of Poker is once again happening at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas right now with an amazing 73 events scheduled between May 30 and July 22.

Cards began hitting the felt with a $565 Casino Employees No Limit Hold em tournament and will continue to fly through the final table of the iconic $10,000 No Limit Hold em World Championship Main Event that finishes up on July 22. Last year’s winner of the Main Event, Qui Nguyen, took home over $8 million and there were 6,737 BY entrants in the tournament.

LARRY There has JOHNSON been a change in how the final table of the Main Event will be played this year. It will be spread over a threeday period from July 20 - 22 and will be nationally televised on ESPN/ESPN 2.

The play on July 20 will take the final table from nine players to six; the play on July 21 will take the final table from six players to three; and on July 22 the final three players will play until a No Limit Hold em World Champion is crowned.

In between Event #1 and Event #73 there is a wide variety of poker tournaments including events such as a new $365 buy in No Limit Hold em tournament known as The Giant; a $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo or better tournament; a $2,500 Mixed Triple Lowball tournament; to even a $10,000 Tag Team No Limit Hold em Championship.

There is a special feel about the World Series of Poker with the elite of the poker world rubbing elbows with the everyday

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While winners receive big payouts, since 1976 each has also received a coveted diamond encrusted championship bracelet. “It is the equivalent of winning the Stanley Cup in hockey or the Lombardi Trophy in football” said World Series of Poker Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack during the 2006 bracelet unveiling.

World renowned professional poker player Phil Hellmuth has won the most championship bracelets in the history of the World Series of Poker with 14 and said, “To me the bracelets have always been a really huge deal, to me more than the other guys, because I knew that they represented history.”

I also have found that there are two additional side benefits to being at the World Series of Poker, aside from the tournaments themselves.

First are the side games surrounding the tournaments. They are running day

and night, 24 hours a day and there is an amazing variety of all limits and types of games. I have found the play is a bit www.coloradogambler.com coloradogambler cogambler loose in these games as everyone seems to be waiting for a tournament; just got knocked out of a tournament; or wishes they were in a tournament - in other words their minds are elsewhere.

Second are the Daily Deep Stack tournaments. These are one day events ranging from a $135 buy in to a $365 buy in and occur each day during the World Series at 2, 5, 7, and 9 p.m. These tournaments attract hundreds of players with very large payouts based on the buy in’s.

I am heading down to Las Vegas for my annual World Series of Poker visit for a few days in June and plan on playing in Event #24. It is a three-day, $1,500 buy in No Limit Hold em event with $7,500 in starting chips and 60 minute rounds.

The issue for me is, I have been playing the big $30 - $60 Limit Hold em game and tournament play is much different. Three things I need to do - limit the range of hands I will play; ensure I am completely focused while playing; and play an absolute cutthroat game designed to gather as many chips as possible and win the tournament.

So - wish me luck! I am on a quest to join World Series of Poker Champions such as the iconic Johnny Moss - winner of the first two World Series of Poker Championships in the early 1970’s; or the universally respected, three-time winner of the Main Event Doyle Brunson; or the well-known champions of some of the first nationally televised Main Events (Private Parking Space/All new stainless steel appliances) during the early 2000’s such as Chris Moneymaker and Greg Raymer.

Remember - play your game and hopefully I will have a great story to write about next month!

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Central City events

Century Casino is the best place to enjoy the full roster of Central City events! Park in our free covered parking, enjoy our welcoming casino floor, and you’re right next to Main Street!

Lou Bunch Day – Saturday, June 17

Central City’s annual adult-themed celebration honors the city’s last and most famous Madame, Lou Bunch. Featuring the infamous bed-races, re-enactors of historical characters from the city’s boisterous past, musical entertainment and more!

Feature food Tuesday

Play and Eat Free every Tuesday when you earn just 100 base points on your Players’ Club card that day. Our June Feature Free Food is pulled pork BBQ, with onion rings and cole slaw (or you can choose our Prime Rib or Salad Bar Buffet) available from 11 a.m. every Tuesday!

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Earn 5X Entries on Penny Slots and 2X entries with all other machine play on June Tuesdays for our Friday through Sunday Sky-High Progressive Drawings to win up to $1,800!

take and share your picture of your ($1,200 or greater) Jackpot for a bonus entry! Our May handpaids are invited to the #Winnerszone Party on June 13 from 6-7 p.m. for appetizers and cake, plus your chance to win $500 Cash each hour from 6-8 p.m.! Winners after that night can look forward to the next party on July 11!

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Fill up on healthy choices at our new expanded 35-item Soup N Salad Buffet, just $7.99 from 11 a.m., just by having a player’s card! Soup N Salad buffet also available for $11 with no card. Not to be combined with any other discount or coupon.

Sign up for free at our Player‘s Club for a card and earn 10 base points on your day of signup and return to the Player’s Club for $5 in Insta-Play added right to your account! Earn 100 base points total on your signup day and redeem at the Club for $5 in Insta-Play added to your account! Earn 200 base points that same day for another $5 Insta-Play bonus!

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Enjoy our 8 oz. slow-roasted Prime Rib Special, accompanied by choice of potato with seasonal vegetables, for just $7.99 from 11 a.m., just by having a player’s card! Prime Rib special is also available for $14.99 with no card. Not to be combined with any other discount or coupon.

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Enjoy free Bingo every from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., with $100 Insta-Play Play or Table Games Play Chips prizes, with $250 cash prizes for our Bigger Bingo Games for three random hourly games each Thursday! Players with a Player’s Card can pick up their Bingo card at the Player’s Club one hour before each game.

Miltary appreciation Monday

Guests with military ID will receive a free ice

cream, plus 50% off meals (up to $25 in one day) at the Retro Deli or Mid City Grill.

Fantasy Golf Wednesday!

Earn up to seven Fantasy Golf Card Scratch Tickets Each Wednesday (at 250 base points, 400 base points, and 1,000 base points, and every thousand base points thereafter up to 5,000) and Win your share of $1,000 in Cash and Insta-Play prizes if you have one of the lowest five scores recorded that day! Win double prizes if your score is under par for the card! Scores are tallied and winners posted the next day and prizes must be claimed within one week. Play, scratch, and win with Fantasy Golf Wednesdays at Century!

Senior celebration – Wednesday and Thursday

Guests aged 50 or better receive 2X points on play all day from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., plus 50% off purchases (up to $25 in one day) at the Retro Deli or Mid City Grill. Please note that 50% food discount cannot be combined with any other coupon or discount, and including daily food specials.

Birthdays at Century

All guests can come in on the day of their birthday and get 2X points plus a free gift! Guests who come in on the day of their 21st birthday receive the 2X points and the gift, plus $10 in comp added to their account, plus a $5 Promo Chip to use at the tables!

Guests with a birthday coupon from our mailer redeem it at the Player’s Club for a gift of 10X their age in points!

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Humor

Playing the waiting game without electronics I am not staring; staring is It’s not my fault. I’ve had bad rude. I’m observing. I’m sitting in experiences waiting. Once at a resthe waiting room at my dentist’s taurant, my husband and I waited office along with four other peo- to be seated for what seemed like ple. One is talking on his phone hours but was probably only 45 minutes. Good thing and the other three contemplating we finally checked to are their phone screens. see where our name Trust me; they was on the call list, wouldn’t notice if I because it wasn’t. was staring—which Worse than that, I’m not.

I once spent what I’m not judging eiseemed like days, ther. It’s all I can do but was probably to keep from pulling only 30 minutes, out my own smartwaiting in an examination room. phone, checking my

By Dorothy Rosby Finally, I stuck email, sending a text drosby@rushmore.com or two, and telling all my head into the my Facebook friends hallway and ask where I am. I’m sure everyone a nurse if my doctor had been would like to know I’m having my called away on an emergency. teeth cleaned today.

She was as shocked to see me as But I refrain. I believe there she would have been to see the are benefits to waiting without doctor. He wasn’t scheduled to an electronic crutch, chief among be in that day. them is learning to wait, which It’s experiences like those has never been one of my strong that keep me from taking this suits. patience thing too far. If I were

too good at waiting, I might still be sitting there. But I could stand to improve at the waiting game, though “game” implies it’s a lot more fun than it is.

I’ve developed a routine for those times when I’m forced to wait, whether it’s in a restaurant, at the mechanic’s or in line at a public restroom. Instead of taking out my phone, I force myself to re-

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They’re too busy looking at their small screens to notice what happens to the big one.

Finally, I observe my fellow waiters—as in those who wait, not those who serve those who wait.

What do they look like? What are they wearing? If they’re talking on their phone, what are they talking about? I have a column to write, you know.

After I’ve taken in everything, I ponder, daydream, and otherwise relax until I can’t stand it anymore. Then and only then do I take out my phone. In this way, I’m becoming more patient and more observant, theoretically anyway. And bonus, and this is no small thing, I’m also reducing my chances of leaving my phone all over town.

(Dorothy Rosby is the author of several humor books, including I Used to Think I Was Not That Bad and Then I Got to Know Me Better. Contact drosby@ rushmore.com.)

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Trail’s End Murder, mystery and the Dickens Opera House

The Dickens Theater (right), built in 1881, is both a State landmark and a National Register landmark.

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a swarm of hornets, searching around the clock for the culprit.

Numerous theories arose, pinning the deed on everyone from criminals Dickens had once arrested to disgruntled employees and envious fellow businessmen. The list was long, since powerful men tend to make enemies.

Naturally the city was astounded when authorities arrested the victim’s oldest son, Rienzi. A suspicious amount of evidence piled up against the young man, who had purchased a high-powered rifle, ammunition and, curiously, a silencer. Detectives found a part of the rifle and some ammunition in his home and the rifle barrel a block away. Plus, Rienzi had no alibi, was $40,000 in debt and stood to inherit a fortune when his parents died, although to be fair, both were already in their 70s.

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ported his protests of innocence, maintaining that Rienzi had been framed, posting bail, and even coming up with another suspect, which proved to be a false lead.

When he was found guilty of second degree murder, the Colorado Supreme Court overturned the verdict and set a second trial date in 1921. When the young man was acquitted, he immediately headed for California where he died in the 1960s, still vowing his innocence.

The case was never solved.

Today, events are still held in the theater, mostly musical performances. At Halloween, the management and the Paranormal Society hold a special program honoring the many ghosts that are said to haunt the theater. They naturally include the man who brought the performing arts to a remote farming community and died mysteriously by an assassin’s hand more than a century ago.

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Masquerade Ball. On the first floor, Dickens built the First National Bank, of which he was founder and president. The original bank vault, now a wine vault, has become an attraction for guests at the current establishment, The Dickens Tavern.

The local newspaper, The Longmont Ledger, also set up shop in part of the building.

Dickens spent lavishly on scenery and curtains for the theater upstairs, opening up the stage to minstrel shows, plays, lectures, orators and even club and lodge meetings and high school events. Local shows were free or much less expensive than those offered by the traveling professional companies.

Many of the programs sound like fun even today. For example, on June 23, 1899, the Opera House hosted Prof. Gentry’s Famous Dog and Pony Show, featuring “200 aristocratic animal actors traveling in their own special train of palace cars.” Theatergoers were fascinated by an early performance by black pianist Thomas Greene Bethune (a.k.a. Blind Tom), which cost annoyed spectators twice as much as the same show in Boulder, ostensibly because of the enhanced venue. Other interesting performances included a Longmont Talent presentation of “Michael Earl, the Maniac Lover” (Longmont Ledger, Feb. 12, 1897) and frequent appearances by a mysterious performer known only as “The Electric Girl.” Actual operas, however, were rare.

By 1915, Dickins was one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the area. Along with his wife Ida, he lived a block down the street from the Opera House in a building that is now an apartment complex. On the evening of Nov. 30, the couple was relaxing in their library when a single shot from a high velocity rifle smashed through the window adjacent to the alley. The bullet caught Dickens in the back and shot straight through, grazing Ida and lodging in the wall. He died almost immediately.

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BY ROSEMARY FETTER this relatively recent was only one of 700 other callieanne_9@msn.com expansion, historic soldiers at Sand Creek. In downtown looks much the same as any event, William left the Cavalry, it did in the late nineteenth century, went home to Longmont, got marwhen a group of intrepid farmers ried and successfully redirected his settled in the St. Vrain Valley and energy toward banking and combegan building an agricultural em- merce. He and Allen established pire. One of these pioneers, William the prosperous Chicago-Colorado H. Dickens, was only 17 when he Colony in 1871.

Significantly enriched by his led a group of 20 men on horseback from Wisconsin at the behest of his many business enterprises, which stepfather, Alonzo Allen, a pros- included freight hauling and bankperous Midwestern businessman ing, Dickens began building an opera house at Third and Main in turned prospector.

With a familial link to famous downtown Longmont with to foster British author Charles Dickens (his the city’s cultural interests. During mother married Dickens’ grandson) young William developed an interest in culture along with a bent for business. Born on May 21, 1842 during a sea voyage from England, he lived in Canada until 1857, when he joined his stepfather’s prospecting expedition. When the gold boom fizzled, Allen and Dickens went back to the land, settling in the St. Vrain Valley.

Dickins became Burlington’s town marshal and later served in the Colorado Third Cavalry under Col. John Chivington, a Methodist minister and a co-founder of what eventually became the University of Denver. Chivington led the Cavalry in what became known as the Sand Creek Massacre.

During the Civil War, a series of A shrewd businessman, William broken treaties led to an uprising H. Dickens became one of the by the Plains Indians, who virtu- wealthiest men in the Longally shut down Colorado’s overland mont/Boulder area.

Photo courtesy of the Longmont trails. On Nov. 29, 1864, ChivingMuseum. ton’s military action led to the slaughter of 163 peaceful Arapaho and Cheyenne, mostly women, chil- the 1800s, more than 150 Opera dren and the elderly, camped under Houses were built in Colorado, but a white flag on Sand Creek, in south- the well-maintained Dicken Theater eastern Colorado. The nation was is one of only four that survive. Conhorrified when soldiers, proud of struction began in February 1881, their “accomplishment,” returned and the following December the to Denver sporting body parts as theater opened for the Fireman’s

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