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Oakland Raiders looking to move to Las Vegas

Broncos season The latticketholders are getest news on ting their bills for this pending the 2017 season. The move comes team should improve from a report over the next season in The Wall with our young quarStreet Jourterbacks gaining more nal. experience. Seems The big football the NFL has news outside of Den- BY BOB SWEENEY deemed Las ver is about the OakVegas a viland Raiders and their move able NFL location. The 32 to Las Vegas. It is hard to be- team owners will vote this lieve that this team will leave month on allowing Oakland their home city, but it now to move. It takes 24 votes for looks like a done deal. They approval. will still have their beloved I would expect that John Golden State Warriors. Elway would represent Den-

ver, and I would also expect that they would prefer playing in Las Vegas rather than Oakland. Presently, Las Vegas has no professional sports franchises, but a national championship basketball title. The proposal would be to build a 65,000-seat domed stadium—I guess to keep the heat out, rather than the cold. The facility could cost up to $1.9 billion. Las Vegas Sands owner Sheldon Adelson and the Goldman Sachs Group have been mentioned as participants in financing this sta-

dium, but the paper reports that they have recently pulled out of the proposed project. The Raiders have advanced their own finance plan and Bank of America is supposedly interested as well in construction loans. The move and stadium could be completed by 2020 if the NFL owners vote “yes” and the money can be raised to build the stadium. I think we can bet that the deal will go through. It’d be great to go to Las Vegas for a weekend Broncos game.

Thinking About Poker: Variations 2 The last article I submitted to you, faithful reader, concerned some of the poker variations I have encountered while traveling about the country. The straddle – also known as the ‘Mississippi Straddle’ was mentioned first. This comes about when a player places a bet, usually double the big blind, from some other position than either of the blinds. Action then begins with the player to the left of the straddler and then the game is played normally. The Mississippi Straddle is again a bet usually double the big blind but placed by the player on the button with action beginning with the small blind player. I have seen straddles of several times the big blind as well and this is working its way into play at many of the Colorado poker rooms. The second variation I have

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seen is the use of ‘Overs’ buttons. If a player so choses, they get an ‘Overs’ button from the dealer and when/if the only players left in the hand have these buttons in front of them, the betting levels double. This is normally played in fixed limit games where some players wish to play for higher stakes, for example: In a $10 - $20 game half the players have ‘Overs’ buttons. Play is run at the normal $10/$20 limits with bets and raises post-flop at $20 increments. But if the only players remaining all have ‘Overs’ buttons, the betting and raising are done at $40 increments. If anyone remaining in the hand does not have one of these buttons, then the game is played normally at the nominal $10/$20 levels. So, in such a limit game I was asked if I would play ‘Overs’ and

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having experienced this before I This excelwww.coloradogambler.com coloradogambler cogambler readily agreed. Played correctly lent adverthis wrinkle in the game can be tising was very profitable, especially when to serve there are a number of loose-ag- me well gressive players in the game. I will later when I warn you, it’s not a game for pas- made some sive players, rocks or those who bets with busted hands and my op- making me a Kings-over-Queens may be squeamish about swings in ponents folded to the reputation. full house; I bet out and with now their stacks size. It can turn into a Gotta love those plays. just one caller showed my hand. wild chip-fest with markers levitatOne hand I do recall vividly was He flashed pocket queens and with ing about the table like the wicked when seven players saw the flop af- a grimace and a polite ‘nice catch’ witch’s flying monkeys. ter only one raise prior. I had K – Q mucked his cards. I would have to Of a table seating nine, six of us suited and felt it was worth seeing go over this hand carefully to tell had these buttons so the doubling the flop from semi-early position. you exactly how much I slipped of the bets did not happen every The flop paired my king and gave into my stack, but I will tell you hand; but when there were just the me a flush draw and after the bet- it took me another three to four six of us – or fewer but all present- ting there were only four of us left, hands to get all the chips neatly ing that little round button – play all with the ‘Overs’ buttons promi- placed in front of me. All-in-all, my got a little, shall we say, rambunc- nently in front of our stacks. Now night was just about a grand to the tious. My first hand where we each bet and raise was $40 and af- good. ended up playing overs was K – K ter I lead out was called by the next So, if you ever find yourself which stood up to an A – Q suited player and raised by the one after where they play ‘Overs’, jump right attack, especially when a queen ap- that with everyone else calling the in – the water’s f-f-f-fine. It can be peared on the turn. It was only me $80 raise. The turn was another a wild ride but playing correctly, against him but showing my hand queen, so now I had top two and reading your opponents and step– and one or two others down- second-nut flush draw and the bet- ping out taking a risk now and stream when the showdown came ting went the same way with one then, it can be a fun and lucrative – established me as a solid player player dropping out. night. The river was another king Just keep thinking about poker! who really has what he represents.

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A Tailing Tale

God in the Gold Fields Frontier mining camps existed In 1858, when, 20 miles for one reason, to make money; west of Denver, in Central and the primitive rawness of City and Black Hawk, a maBy Maggie these early camps was not favorjor strike of gold was made, able for church activities. Early prospectors from across Magoffin preachers found that to survive the country and around the in Colorado, they had to be inworld came to Colorado. By novative and the church had to 1860, the region boasted adapt. As one Colorado histo34,277 residents. Along with rian wrote, “The camp molded the prospectors came minthe image of the church, not the ers, merchants, farmers, a church that of the camp.” wealth of undesirable charThe first denominations in acters, and a few preachers the Colorado mining camps and missionaries. were the Catholics, MethodIn the early 1850’s, Maggie@maggiempublications.com ists Presbyterians and CongreColorado’s first non-Native gationalists. St. James United American settlers were the Spanish-American Methodist Church in Central City, founded in farmers who settled on Spanish Land Grants in 1859, is the oldest Protestant church congrethe San Luis Valley and they brought with them gation in the state. St. Mary’s Catholic Church their Catholic religion. In 1858, Bishop Lamy stands on one of the oldest Catholic gathering of Santa Fe, made his first trip to Colorado and places in Colorado. In 1860, Bishop Machebeuf erected a crude chapel along the Conejos River celebrated mass in Central City and in 1862, the and Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church parish provided an ‘A’ frame church erected on currently stands on that same site. that site. The cornerstone for the permanent As the Spanish-American farmers settled in structure was set in 1872 and in 1882 the buildthe San Luis Valley of southern Colorado, pros- ing was completed. In 1863, the First Presbytepectors were searching for gold in Colorado’s rian Church was dedicated in Black Hawk, and mountains. Gold strikes or even hints of mineral the bell for the steeple was carried across the deposits resulted in the establishment of min- plains by ox cart and was the first bell installed in ing camps. Larger deposits resulted in frontier any Presbyterian Church west of the Mississippi. towns and early preachers discovered western Today, the church building is used as an annex frontier churches differed from churches in the for the city’s Planning Department and is said to eastern states. Historian Walter Prescott Webb be one of the oldest operating buildings in Colois quoted as saying, “The further west you travel rado. Also In 1863, 243 years after the Pilgrims from England and New England the less influ- brought the Puritan church to America, the Conence the church has.” gregational church, sent the Rev. William CrawWhile religious groups such as the Puri- ford, to the Colorado Territory. At that time the tans and Quakers founded many New England Rev Crawford, a native of Massachusetts, was communities, this was not true on the frontier. a 28-year-old graduate of Andover Theological

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Seminary. As Crawford traveled west, he sent reports back describing his trip. He was disappointed in Denver. In his June 13, 1863 report on Denver, he wrote, “I preached for Mr. Day [a Presbyterian minister] in the morning, and was strongly tempted to give out that hymn of Watts: Lord, what a wretched land is this, Which yields us no supply, No cheering fruits, no wholesome trees, No streams of living joy. He reported, “. . . yet some Denverites think they have found the best spot on earth. Poor, de- St. James United Methodist Church luded mortals!” Failing to find a suitable group of Congregationalists in Denver where he initially planned to make his home, Crawford made his headquarters in Central City, then the center of the mining activities in Colorado. He preached his first sermon Be sure to check out my website for past in Central City on June 28, 1863. Two months later, he organized a church at Central City with columns at: 21 members. Money was a perpetual problem for most www.MaggieMPublications.com. of the churches in the mining towns. In a reThe first two books in my Misadventures port to the Congregational church authorities of the Cholua Brother’s Series are Rev. Crawford, wrote, “. . . the money is not in available on my website, on Amazon. the hands of the Christians and we cannot get it com, Lulu.com and BarnesandNoble.com. from the others.” However, in 1866 the Congregational church built a building in Central City They can also be bought through the that cost $11,000 to build. Gilpin Historical Museum and Mountain In many communities, the preachers in the Menagerie in Central City. Watch for the early 1860s were either laymen who felt the release of the third and final book in the spirit and preached on Sunday or circuit riders. series Bonanza Beans available in late Even after the churches were established only February or early March. a small percentage of the people attended. A rough life was not limited to the mining camps Cholua Brothers Mining Company or to the first few years of the gold boom. At a specialty coffees are available at Methodist revival meeting in a farming and Mountain Menagerie in Central City or ranching region near Paonia, in the 1890s, a from their website at German-Russian participant prayed that God www.choluabros.com. consider a neighboring horse thief, cattle thief, and drunkard, “Oh God, come down and save This column was previously published in dis miserable sinner. But don’t send your son the Central City Weekly Register-Call. Yesus, for this is no boy’s yob.” The miners and pioneers of the west came Send in your tales – Mail your stories from across the United States and from around with contact information: the world and they brought the faith of their homeland with them. Whether they were CathoMaggie M lic or one of several protestant religions, there is P.O. Box 746495 little doubt that their faith carried them through the isolation of the frontier, temptations of the Arvada, CO 80006-6495 flesh, and dangers of mining life. We can well Email: Maggie@maggiempublications.com imagine that many did not attend services at the If you prefer to tell me your story orally and have local churches, and sin and depravation were me write it for you, please feel free to call me at part of their everyday lives. However, there is 303-881-3321. little doubt that God was in the gold fields and in the hearts of those who carried him there.

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You can hit the open road with our Road Trippin’ Truck Giveaway when we give away a 2017 Ford F-150 on Saturday, May 27 at 8 p.m. Starting April 17 at 8 a.m., earn one free entry each day, plus receive additional entries for every 100 unadjusted points when you play slots, and 200 unadjusted points when you play video poker through May 27. Don’t forget, 2X entries on Sundays from April 23 to May 21. On May 27, there will be hourly fan play drawings from 2 to 7 p.m. and at 9 and 10 p.m., with the grand prize drawing taking place at 8 p.m. when three winners will vie for a chance to win a brand-new Ford F-150 or Cash Prizes. See guest services for rules and additional details. Management reserves all rights.

Tieriffic Hot Seats

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Poker and table games play and FanPlay Fun Pick a Prize stay During the month of April, poker players who play three hours of poker in one day, any day of the week, will be eligible for their $23 Bus Fare

winner each half hour to pick their FanPlay prize from our claw machine. Prizes are guaranteed. Receive one free entry, plus additional entries for every 50 unadjusted points. Management reserves all rights.

It’s FanPlay Fun at Lady Luck when you Pick A Prize to win up to $250 FanPlay every Tuesday in April from noon – 6 p.m.! We’re looking for one

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Join us every Thursday in April from noon – 8 p.m. to participate in our Tieriffic Hot Seats Giveaway. We will randomly be looking for three winners each hour to win great hot seat FanPlay prizes. The higher your tier, the more FanPlay you win. Management reserves all rights.

Points Palooza

Join us every Saturday in April from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. to receive 20X Points on all of your favorite Penny Slots during our Points Palooza! April 18 - May 1, 2017

You must register at cashier services prior to playing. See Cashier Services for more details. Management reserves all rights.

$10,000 Jackpot Frenzy #2

Here the ding, ding, ding of your machine and you could win even more cash! Earn an entry into Lady Luck’s $10,000 Jackpot Frenzy #2! Guests will receive one free entry for every jackpot $1,200 or better won from March 27 through noon on April 29. On Saturday, April 29, place your entries in Lady Luck’s Jackpot Frenzy drawing that takes place from 2 to 7 p.m. You could win up to $1,000! A total of $10,000 in cash prizes will be given away! See guest services for rules and additional details. Management reserves all rights.

Club 40

We’re multiplying the fun every Wednesday in April! Join us for Club 40. All guests age 40 or better will receive 6x points on slots and 2x points on video poker. Guests will also receive a free entrée up to $10 at Otis & Henry’s once they earn 25 Tier Score points on their Lady Luck Player’s Card. See guest services for rules and additional details. Management reserves all rights.

Monday Funday Multiplier

Join us every Monday in April from 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. when you register at promotions to receive a special Monday Funday Multiplier. You can receive anywhere from 10X to 20X points on all slots and 5X points on Video Poker. Plus, you could win some FanPlay! All guests who registered prior to 6 p.m. will receive 20X points from 6 p.m. to Midnight. You must register prior to playing. See guest services for rules and additional details. Management reserves all rights.

New member

There has never been a better time to sign up for the Fan Club at Lady Luck. Join the club today. When you’re a fan, you get better rewards faster than ever. For all new members, just play 10 unadjusted points and receive $20 in Otis & Henry’s Bar & Grill and $10 in Match Play on Table Games. Sign up your email address, receive $5 and start raking in those rewards. See guest services for rules and additional details. Management reserves all rights.

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Social media

Make sure to ‘like’ Lady Luck Black Hawk on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Stay up to date with all promotions, events and special contests! Also, make sure to register your email with Guest Services to receive special promotion emails.

Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo Jackpots make the fun of winning a progressive jackpot that much easier with 12 individual progressive prizes that can hit multiple times a day. There are jackpots for Royal Flushes, Straight Flushes, and any 4 of a kind. Monte Carlo Madness takes effect when our bad beat jackpots all reach $25K and 100% of the jackpot rake gets distributed to the Monte Carlo hands making the amounts increase twice as fast. Visit the Lady Luck Poker Room for details and updated jackpot amounts.

Lady Luck Poker

It’s easier than ever to win big in the Lady Luck Poker Room! The Bad Beat Jackpot now includes a decreasing qualifier element starting at Aces full of Kings. Here at Lady Luck we’re giving you more options, when you play-you pick - Play three hours and receive $23 bus refund back or play six hours and earn a hotel room Sunday – Thursday. See Poker supervisor for more information. Management reserves all rights.

Table Games

Up your odds with the best table games crew in Black Hawk! Play Craps, Roulette, Buffalo Black Jack Bonus and Double Deck Blackjack every day of the week! There are 20X odds on Craps Everyday! $5* games open daily. Here at Lady Luck we’re giving you more options, when you play-you pick - Play two hours and receive $23 bus refund back or play four hours and earn a Play n Stay Sunday – Thursday. See table games supervisor for additional information, promotions and details. Table games is located on the second floor of Lady Luck. *Limits subject to change, management reserves all rights.

Select and Gold Bonus Points

The tier rewards are racking up with a great point multiplier day for Select and Gold players. Tuesday, April 25. Select players will receive 3X points and Gold players will receive 5X points. You don’t need to register, come on in and enjoy

your favorite slot machine and receive bonus points all day!

Bus Fare Redemption

Ride in style to Lady Luck! Guests who play with a Fan Club Card can receive up to $23 cash back on bus fare every day. Earn 350 unadjusted points on Lady Luck Player’s Card to receive cash back. Poker and table games guests can earn too! Ask Supervisor for details. Guests must redeem bus ticket at Guest Services. Limit one bus redemption per person per day.

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Jeep Renegade Getaway Drawings

Every Wednesday through Sunday from March 5 - May 20, join us for out $150,000 Jeep Renegade Getaway Drawings from 1 – 11 p.m., win up to $250 in Z-Play at each drawing. We will have two winners per drawing hour. Earn entries with every 100 same day points. On May 20 from 1 p.m. - Midnight every hour we will have one drawing winner for $150 in Z-Play. Earn entries from March 5 through May 20 with every 250 points at 9:30 p.m. we will have one Jeep Renegade winner and four $500 in Z-Play winners.

Silver Tsunami Club

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every Monday and Tuesday this month for our Silver Tsunami Club 60+ days. Just earn 60 base points that day and receive one free special of the day and a free nonalcoholic soft drink, coffee or tea. Just one more way to win at the Z!

Club Z

Sign up for a new Club Z card at Z Casino and receive up to $100 in Z-Play the same day! See Club Z for complete details.

Don’t want to pay for Breakfast?

On Mondays and Tuesdays just earn 10 same day base points before 11 a.m. and receive a voucher for a free Double Down Breakfast and Wednesday through Sunday just earn 20 same day base points before 11 a.m.! Receive your voucher from the promotional kiosk.

Prime Rib dinner

Join us every day this month for our $7.77 Prime Rib dinner special after you earn 50 same day base points. Receive your voucher from the promotional kiosk.

Free gas

Want to convert your comps to free gas? Earn Turbo, Nitro or Flame status and redeem your comps for up to $20 in gas each day!

Play and Ride!

Earn 75 same day base points, redeem your bus ticket at Club Z and receive $25 in Z-Play. Earn 500 same day base points and get an additional $5 in Z-Play.

Get reimbursed for your ATM fees

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Catch the free shuttle!

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Z Cafe

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entrepreneur, she knew how to promote ne hundred the latest look and years ago, a priced her creations person felt accordingly: “I’m naked not wearing here to tempt your a hat. Ladies, eye and empty your gentlemen, working pocketbook” seemed class folks, children to be her motto. – all wore a hat in Before long, public. Roebuck By Cathleen Norman Sears High fashion catalogues, efficient catnorman@earthlink.net In 1908, these ladies dressed up for an outing in Palmer Lake in a variety of shapely hats, including a dictated hats for railroad freight picture hat (far left). Photo courtesy of Palmer Lake Historical Society every season in a and department stores aided variety of styles. Women’s hats and women in purchasing ready-made stores, most of which were located hat shapes. The 1940s and World Easter Bonnet marketed hats in hairstyles followed fashion trends. hats. Nevertheless, milliners in the Tejon Street business War II spawned feminine versions the springtime.” During the 19th-century Victorian remained in demand, fashioning district. These included two single of tailored masculine styles, such Today, hat fashions still period of corsets, crinolines and fancy handmade hats for special females, Miss Vivian Fuquah and as fedoras. The pillbox hat worn sprout in springtime, especially bustles, a small fancy hat trimmed occasions like weddings, dress- Miss Beulah McGothnic. by First Lady Jackie Kennedy in the traditional Easter hat. Hats in ruffles or feathers perched upon up balls and festive holidays. The need for the milliner and the early 1960s was one of the last become the focus at Denver society a lady’s head. With the highly Their clientele included middle- her handmade hats diminished stylish hats of renown. events, garden parties and polo popular pompadour of the early and upper-class wives, mothers, during the 1920s. Women’s hats Meanwhile, the church hat tournaments. 1900s Gibson Girl look, hats had sisters and daughters of business got smaller and sassier: most gained momentum, especially And then there is the Kentucky to be anchored to a towering owners, bankers, doctors, lawyers, popular was the fitted, bell- among black congregations. The Derby hat tradition. Held on the pouf of hair. Hats grew larger, tradesmen and shopkeepers, shaped cloche hat that flattered fashion trend coincided with first Saturday in May at Churchill wider and more elaborate. The women who aspired to the utmost the Flapper’s short “bobbed” blacks’ northern migration from Downs in Louisville, Ky., this ultimate was the picture hat, very in headwear. hairstyle. The 1930s saw the rise the rural South in the 1920s, 1.25 mile race for three-year-old broad-brimmed and laden with The millinery industry was itself of Hollywood glamour that called according to headwear historian thoroughbreds is as famous for its fancy decorations, swathed in significant because it offered a for wispy confections and novel Dr. Beverly Chico. Black women the exotic hats as it is for horses. filmy chiffon and festooned with genteel and respectable in urban areas began Known as “the most exciting two feathers. livelihood to women, donning evermore minutes in sports” and the “Run During Colorado’s earliest years, especially for single elaborate hats to for the Roses,” the Kentucky Derby the Main Street of most towns and females. Some milliners wear to Sunday attracts approximately 150,000 cities had a millinery shop that worked in their homes worship. spectators to enjoy the race and specialized in fashionable female while raising their Church hats the spectacle of the elaborate hats. headwear. Swiftly changing styles became fashionable Even Kentucky Derby partygoers created a fashion swirl, and women families. Many became style statements, a watching the race via television strived to keep up with hat trends. merchants on Main Street. A successful dressing ritual that dress up in fancy hats. Sometimes, hat styles changed was (and is) fun, If you are in the mood for an a dozen times during a two-year milliner typically leased a storefront, hung out reverent and classy. Easter bonnet, you yourself can period. Some women owned create a “millinery masterpiece” In early Colorado, pioneer a prominent sign and advertised in the local dozens of church hats with the help of the historic fashion women hungered for news of in different styles, experts at the Molly Brown House eastern fashions, and gobbled up newspaper. Savvy in business and skilled colors and shapes. Museum, 1340 Pennsylvania St.. A magazines like Godeys’ Ladies in the intricacies of “The hats got March 31 workshop provides the Book and Ladies’ Home Journal bigger and bigger hat, materials and refreshments that guided style and taste. The hat making, she also and taller and (cost $55; registration required). milliner came to the rescue, creating must know everything about fashion. The most wider,” said Chico, The Museum’s Carriage House confections and concoctions that who is a nationally- gift store also sells ready-made, capped a woman’s elaborate outfit. sought-after milliners recognized expert Victorian-style touring hats – The milliner knew how to stretch traveled to trade shows on hats and history. large brimmed and decorated with velvet or brocade over the stiff hat in New York City or “Wearing large, eye- feathers, birds, tulle, ribbon and frame and how to apply bountiful Paris to get a glimpse of catching hats became feaux flowers. Call 303-832-4092 decoration. She beautified the hats new designs and bring an expression or visit www.mollybrown.org. with lavish artificial flowers, Bird back styles for Colorado of the women’s If you desire something of Paradise plumes, yards of lace, clients. Custom hat making independence after contemporary or classic, you can streams of ribbon. 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the month of March to qualify for our End of Month drawing on April, 25. Ten lucky guests will be called at 7 and 9 p.m. *If progressive is hit the jackpot resets to $1,500. See Guest Services for full details.

$1,500 Free roll Blackjack Tournament

Come and try out your blackjack skills at our $1,500 free roll blackjack tournament on Friday, April 21. Registration starts at 5 p.m. Guests must RSVP at the blackjack pit by April 21. See Blackjack Pit for full details.

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time on your receipt. You will receive $5 in Z-Play or $3 Cash back!

$7.77 Prime Rib dinner special after you Z Cafe Stop by Z Cafe located on the 2nd earn 50 same day base points. Receive floor of Johnny Z’s to get your favorite your voucher from the promotional kicappuccino, latte, mocha and much osk. more.

Want to convert your comps to free gas?

Come celebrate your birthday with us

Earn Turbo, Nitro or Flame status and New and existing members play our redeem your comps for up to $20 in gas kiosk game to win free Z-Play. each day!

Play and Ride! Earn 75 same day base points, redeem your bus ticket at Club Z and receive $25 in Z-Play. Earn 500 same day base points and get an additional $5 in Z-Play.

Get reimbursed for your ATM fees

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Play the Hottest Table Games in Central City at Johnny Z’s Casino every day from 10 a.m. to close! We have all your favorites from Craps, Three Card poker, Double Deck Blackjack, and Buffalo Blackjack! Whether you’re in Central City or Black Hawk win at the Z!

Catch the free shuttle!

Stop by the Z Stop Gas Station to The shuttle stops right in front of use our ATM and bring your receipt to Johnny Z’s in Central City. With quick, Prime Rib dinner Join us every day this month for our Johnny Z’s within two hours from the easy access to Z Casino in Black Hawk.

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Central-city.cnty.com Altima Cool Car Frenzy! Win a 2017 Nissan Altima SR!

Fridays 5-11 p.m, Saturdays 3-11 p.m. and Sundays 12-6 p.m.! Winner drawn every half hour! Win $100-$250, plus Car Finalist entries! $500 winner at 11 p.m. Fri./Sat. and 6 p.m. Sun.! Win drawings every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in April and May for Cash and Insta-Play prizes, plus finalist Entries to win a 2017 Nissan Altima SR on Memorial Day! Every drawing day, each half hour we draw a guaranteed winner. The winner picks a prize from our Cool Car Frenzy Board, scoring from $100 to $250 with bonus car entries! Stay for a guaranteed $500 cash prize at 11 p.m.! Earned entries are valid through Memorial Day. Sunday, May 28 our drawings will proceed from 3-11 p.m. On Memorial Day, Monday May 29, starting at 3 p.m.

we draw for winners of $1,000 cash prizes and 50 finalist entries on-the-hour, and we draw for contestants for our Cool Car Frenzy board to win up to $250 on-thehalf-hour! At 10 p.m. we draw seven finalists from our finalist barrel. Six of them will open their envelope to reveal $500 cash, and the seventh is the lucky winner of a 2017 Nissan Altima SR!

Feature food Tuesday

Play & Eat Free every Tuesday when you earn just 100 base points on your Players’ Club card that day. Our April Feature Free Food is Fried Chicken and Sweet Potato Waffle Fries (or you can choose our Prime Rib or Salad Bar Buffet) available from 11 a.m. every Tuesday!

Central City Nuggets available for $11 with no card. Not to be combined with any other discount or coupon.

#Winnerszone Party at Century

Hit a handpaid jackpot at Century and you’ll get an entry for our new monthly Jackpot Party! Let us take and share your picture of your ($1,200 or greater) Jackpot for a bonus entry! April handpaids are invited to the #Winnerszone Party on Tuesday, May 9 from 6-7 p.m. for appetizers and cake, plus your chance to win $500 Cash each hour from 6-8 p.m.!

$7.99 prime rib every day!

Earn 5X Entries on Penny Slots and 2X entries with all other machine play on April Tuesdays to win our Friday through Sunday Altima Cool Car Frenzy Drawings to win up to $500 plus finalist entries to win a 2017 Nissan Altima SR on Memorial Day at 10 p.m.!

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.

$7.99 Soup n Salad buffet every day!

New members get up to $20 in day one Insta-Play!

Tuesday bonus entries!

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

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

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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! Finally, earn 300 base points that same day for another amazing $5 in Insta-Play bonus available at the Club! That’s up to $20 in Day One Insta-Play for New Members! Give us your email address and/or phone number for an even more of an extra bonus!

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 InstaPlay 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.

Senior celebration – Wednesday Enjoy free Bingo every from 11 a.m. to and Thursday

Bingo –Thursday Bingo

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

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.

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

Brace yourself

I don’t go out in the-dark piano keys for public anymore. I’ve teeth. stopped smiling. I’ve My son finds my quit talking. Well situation more entertaining than I do. maybe not that. But That’s because when he I have gone into hiding. I’m just not ready was in middle school, to show off my new I drug him to the oraccessories yet. After thodontist’s office and an unexpected series he wore braces for two of events, I find myvery long years. I’m BY DOROTHY ROSBY not sure which one of self wearing braces. drosby@rushmore.com us thought they were And at my advanced age, the best thing I can say about longer. From my perspective, it that is, it beats wearing dentures. was an unappreciated act of love It’s not easy to stay positive and parental responsibility, not when you can’t chew, your mouth to mention extreme self-sacrifice. hurts and you can’t drink diet cola From his perspective, it was child anymore, but I’m trying to look on abuse. the bright side. Braces do make I’m sure he would disagree you look younger, in the same way with me, but I’d bet my bicuspids pimples make you look younger. that having braces when you’re in And, eventually I’ll have straight, middle school is easier than havhealthy teeth. Then I’ll start using them when you’re in middle ing whitening products so I can age. It’s true that if all goes well, look like one of those toothpaste I’ll have mine for less time than commercial actors with glow-in- he did. And it’s also true that

time seems to go faster for adults, though it slows down considerably when you can’t eat beef jerky or chew gum anymore. But children are more resilient than adults. At my age, I’m set in my ways and so are my teeth. Plus in my son’s middle school, braces were almost as common as backpacks. You hardly noticed them. They’re much more conspicuous when you’re the only one in assisted living wearing them. I’m exaggerating. I’m not quite there yet. But I did get braces and bifocals in the same year, if that tells you anything. As an adult, you feel a little out of place at the orthodontist’s office. The waiting room is a kid’s paradise complete with play area, and it’s full of children. There would be no adults at all if the

palate like mine. It’s not that I don’t like mashed potatoes, it’s just that I like them with a medium rare steak and a tossed salad. You think spinach in your teeth is bad. Try it in your braces. Sophisticated palate or not, I could eat ice cream three meals a day and at snack time too and never get tired of it. But I just got braces; I can’t afford a new wardrobe too. Orthodontics are expensive and that leads me to the main difference between my son’s and my experience with braces. He won’t be paying for mine. (Dorothy Rosby is the author of the humor book, I Didn’t Know You Could Make Birthday Cake from Scratch: Parenting Blunders from Cradle to Empty Nest. Contact drosby@rushmore.com.)

kids could drive. Sometimes when I’m there I look around and think, I bet I’m the only one here having a hot flash. And then there’s the braces diet. A finicky child can tolerate mashed potatoes, bananas, and pudding day after day much better than an adult with a sophisticated

Crossword Puzzle 1

ACROSS: 1. Pear tree bird (9) 8. Business Administration degree (3) 11. Front range town with ice skating lake (9) 13. Walked through water (5) 14. Wind direction (2) 15. After BC, before Domini (4) 16. Range SUV with room for the dog (5) 18. Banned pesticide did keep mosquitoes at bay (3) 19. Top soccer league (3) DOWN: 1. Ski area just east of Grand Junction (10) 2. Famous reindeer (7) 3. Morrison amphitheater (3, 5) 4. Fluid delivery system (2) 5. Colorado NBA team (6, 7) 6. Alkaline foods (6) 7. For example (2) 8. Beckham soccer movie

20. Behind Mandarin as most spoken language (7) 21. Indiana NBA team (6) 22. Queen’s abbreviation (3) 24. To make unwell (3) 25. Relationship between a part and a whole (2) 26. Make a loud noise whie drinking (5) 28. Popular internet slang (3) 30. Score in baseball or cricket (4)

(4, 2, 4) 9. Condition that affects deep sea divers (5) 10. Queen song bites the dust (7, 3) 12. Egyptian sun god (2) 17. Browns 3 QB (2) 23. Governing body of English Rugby (3) 24. Press organization (2)

32. Appliance manufacturer (2) 33. Outer layer of a fruit (4) 34. Pacific island (5) 36. Brazilian soccer great (4) 37. Past simple of eat (3) 39. Kraft gelatin dessert (5) 41. Throat condition (5) 43. Radiohead song (5) 44. Active ingredient in Roundup heavily concentrated in Cheerios (10)

27. Not fake (4) 29. Teamed with Coors (6) 31. Do this to hot tea (5) 33. Tiny bit of mold (5) 35. Atlantic City state (2) 37. Falcons (3) 38. Make an effort (3) 40. Lactase gene (3) 41. Gibson guitar (2) 42. Acid/alkaline scale (2)

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