Wild West

Pub Crawl Poker

Ante Up for a Wild West Adventure!

How it Works

Poker Hand Ranking

Learn the Lingo

A beer mug and some cards on a table.

Pub Crawl Poker

Our Wild West Pub Crawl Poker adds an exciting interactive element to your pub crawl tour experience that's perfect for friends, family gatherings, and especially corporate teams.

How It Works

As you journey through Golden's historic district, your costumed guide deals you into an authentic poker experience inspired by the gold rush era. The tour begins as each guest receives their first two (pocket) cards. Throughout the tour your guide will reveal the flop cards, the turn card, and the river card at different locations. To make it interesting, players will have opportunities to trade and strategize at each stop as they build their best Hold ‘Em hand. By the final venue, someone in your group will hold the winning hand and claim their prize!

Perfect For Team Building

Corporate groups love this addition to our tours! The card trading creates natural conversation starters, encourages strategic thinking, and builds camaraderie as colleagues work together to create winning hands. It's the perfect ice-breaker that connects your team through Golden's rich gambling history.

More Than Just Cards

Your guide doesn't just deal cards – they'll deal fascinating stories about the high-stakes poker games that shaped Golden's past, colorful characters who won (and lost) fortunes, and how gambling was woven into the fabric of frontier life. All while you enjoy local drinks and build your winning hand!

Claim Your Prize

The best poker hand at tour's end doesn't just earn bragging rights – winners receive exclusive Golden History Tours prizes! Will you be the card shark who takes home the pot?

Poker Hand Rankings

  1. Royal Flush: A, K, Q, J, 10 of the same suit

  2. Straight Flush: Five sequential cards of the same suit

  3. Four of a Kind: Four cards of the same rank

  4. Full House: Three of a kind plus a pair

  5. Flush: Five cards of the same suit, not in sequence

  6. Straight: Five sequential cards, not all the same suit

  7. Three of a Kind: Three cards of the same rank

  8. Two Pair: Two different pairs

  9. One Pair: Two cards of the same rank

  10. High Card: When no one has any of the above, highest card wins

Learn the Lingo

Basic Poker Terms

  • Ante: A small, mandatory bet that all players must contribute to the pot before cards are dealt

  • Blind: A forced bet placed by one or more players before any cards are dealt

  • Call: Matching the current bet amount

  • Check: Passing on betting when no bet has been made

  • Fold: Discarding your hand and forfeiting the current round

  • Pot: The total amount of money bet by all players in a hand

  • Raise: Increasing the current bet amount

  • Showdown: The final phase where players reveal their hands to determine the winner

Card-Related Terms

  • Community Cards: Cards placed face-up on the table that all players can use

  • Hole Cards/Pocket Cards: The private cards dealt to each player face-down

  • Kicker: A high card used to break ties when players have the same ranked hand

  • Nuts: The strongest possible hand given the community cards

Texas Hold'em Specific Terms

  • The Flop: The first three community cards, dealt simultaneously

  • The Turn: The fourth community card (also called "Fourth Street")

  • The River: The fifth and final community card (also called "Fifth Street")

  • Button: A marker that indicates the dealer position, which rotates clockwise after each hand

Common Slang

  • Fish: An inexperienced or bad player

  • Shark: A highly skilled player

  • Dead Man's Hand: Two pair, aces and eights (associated with Wild Bill Hickok)

  • Bullets: A pair of aces

  • Cowboys: A pair of kings

  • Ladies: A pair of queens