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GilpinGuy
10-01-2020, 21:03
In celebration of my poker room re-opening, I'm going to give away a $100 Poker Tournament Certificate good for any tournament we run! It may not be appropriate to mention my casino by name here, so let's just say that its THE tournament house in Black Hawk.
Question:
How many poker tournament chips do we have in inventory in the poker room? Not the value, just the total number of individual chips.
Whoever guesses the correct number or is the closest first wins the certificate. Winner will be declared sometime on Wednesday, October 7th, so you can plan ahead and play on the weekend (though you have a whole year to use the cert.). I can hold the cert. for you until you're ready to play or mail it to you.
Good luck!
83258
If the winner knows what movie that GIF is from, lunch/dinner is on me as well. Saw that movie on my first date with my wife. [Flower]
Smokin aces and 15000 chips
I've played in one of these tournaments and this is a solid offer.
Congrats on being re-opened!
GilpinGuy
10-01-2020, 21:15
Smokin aces and 15000 chips
Well, I guess lunch/dinner is on me no matter what now! [ROFL1] My fault, but that's cool.
GilpinGuy
10-01-2020, 21:16
I've played in one of these tournaments and this is a solid offer.
Congrats on being re-opened!
No guess? And thanks!
I'm guessing 20k
Thanks for the chance and the raffle! I will be heading up to get.my poker fix fo sho!!!
DenverGP
10-01-2020, 22:45
10,000
My wife was very happy to learn it reopened. She's already been up for one of the nightly tournaments last weekend.
Glock Shooter
10-02-2020, 08:54
Used to play at the Gilpin at least 5 days a week from 2004-2008. When Weav ran the room. Miss those days.
My guess on chips: 1,000,001
Well, I guess lunch/dinner is on me no matter what now! [ROFL1] My fault, but that's cool.
Ahhh crap, sorry about that
newracer
10-02-2020, 09:51
50,000
fairrpe86
10-02-2020, 11:06
998,742.....
6 bags of lays, 5 bags of fritos, and 6 bags of Doritos Cool Ranch in the vending machine in the break room.
mindfold
10-02-2020, 12:55
28000
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10 less then there was before the COVID shut down
GilpinGuy
10-02-2020, 19:07
Used to play at the Gilpin at least 5 days a week from 2004-2008. When Weav ran the room. Miss those days.
My guess on chips: 1,000,001
My first dealing gig was at the Gilpin. Shit, I helped build the tables when it first opened. Weav is one of my good buds. Those were fun days!
20,000
already picked in post #6
beast556
10-02-2020, 22:12
Im gonna say 5000.
Wolfshoon
10-02-2020, 22:30
28000. Thanks for this thread, it's fun.
GilpinGuy
10-02-2020, 22:56
Ahhh crap, sorry about that
Baaah. It's all in good fun man. [shit-happens]
OtterbatHellcat
10-03-2020, 01:57
50,001
:)
fright88
10-03-2020, 03:05
78673
Cool little contest thanks!
I've never been to Black Hawk before so maybe if I win this it'll give me the excuse I need to go. 225,000 is my guess based on zero actual knowledge. Let's see how lucky I am.
Thanks for doing this contest and good luck to everybody participating!
ChickNorris
10-04-2020, 14:51
For no reason in particular I'm going to be pedantic based on the phrasing & my guess is 0.
3beansalad
10-05-2020, 08:23
24680
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Glad it’s opening back up! Played a couple times a while back
I’ll guess 26,500 chips
BladesNBarrels
10-07-2020, 16:11
Okay, playing detective here.
For internal control purposes, all the chips probably have to be counted at the end of each shift.
So, not knowing how many tables there are, I am guessing 18 at the most as listed on line for the Golden Gates Casino.
Guessing max of 8 players at each table during a tournament.
Looking online, estimates of 100 chips per player for planning a tournament.
So 18 Tables times 8 players times 100 chips equals 14,400 to start.
Then, in case of cumulative wins that are held by the players, the bank better double that number, so 28,800
If the casino buys chips 5,000 per order, let's say 30,000 chips total.
And, if a prudent manager was worrying about a worst case scenario, probably add another 5,000 just in case.
My guess, then, is 34,750, because there are always people that need a token to take home and actually slip out with one.
GilpinGuy
10-07-2020, 16:25
Drumroll please.............
We have 37,629 tournament chips in inventory.
BladesNBarrels wins it with a guess of 34,750! Talk about squeeking in at the end there man.
Send me a PM with your address and I'll sent the $100 cert. to you or you can just let me know when you'll be in and I'll have it ready for you. [Beer]
That's pretty much the way I made my guess.
I?m going to guess 17.
I was a little off.
Thought maybe it was a trick question.
I?m going to be disappointed if I don?t get some sort of participation prize.
Posts #18 and #33 should get honorable mention for being pretty close as well.
I would sacrifice my rights to a participation award if those guys could get some sort of honorable mention participation award.
Congrats thanks for the opportunity
BladesNBarrels
10-08-2020, 08:12
Thank you for the contest!
I really haven't played much poker since a group of us got together on Saturday nights in High School (Wheat Ridge in the 60's, when the girls had curfews and the guys were still restless).
I am glad my logic panned out somewhat. It usually is way off.
Thanks again!
PM sent
David
ChickNorris
10-09-2020, 11:23
Really nice of you to do something fun here for folk. Thanks for thinking of us.
newracer
10-09-2020, 14:34
Congrats to the winner and thanks for the opportunity.
3beansalad
10-09-2020, 18:01
Congrats to the damn winner
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BladesNBarrels
10-10-2020, 08:52
Congrats to the damn winner
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Now that is a true heartfelt sentiment.
Thank you for the thought!
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