What Is A Snowmobile Poker Run

The 6th Annual Arrowhead Poker Run Saturday, February 8, 2020 Presented by Arrowhead Mountain Lodge and Arrowhead Snowmobile Club. Proceeds from this event will benefit the Arrowhead Snowmobile Club. Rogue Snowmobilers joins with Diamond Lake Resort to host a one of kind poker run. Come join Rogue Snowmobilers and all your snowmobile friends at Diamond Lake on February 15th. This is the largest event of its kind in the western states. Your entry includes a tour around Southern Oregon. Collect All 5 Tokens! Join us for our 31st Annual Poker Run! Participants will ride the trails via snowmobile or ATV visiting 5 shelter cabins. Each cabin will offer a coloured token and refreshments! Before 5:00 pm participants turn in their tokens in order to draw a poker hand. All proceeds from the event are.

Riders at a checkpoint in the 2009 Isle of Vashon TT poker run.

A poker run is an organized event in which participants, usually using motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, boats, snowmobiles, horses, on foot or other means of transportation, must visit five to seven checkpoints, drawing a playing card at each one. The object is to have the best poker hand at the end of the run. Having the best hand and winning is purely a matter of chance. The event has a time limit, however the individual participants are not timed.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the record for the largest event was set in 2009 with 2,136 motorcyclists benefiting the Fallen Firefighter Survivors Foundation (FFSF).^[1]

The record for the largest single venue event was set in 2012, with 586 motorcyclists raising money for Prostate Cancer research in Ottawa, Canada.^[2]

Variations[edit]

Poker runs usually require a fee to enter and some for each additional hand; in some events a small part of the fee may go to funding the event, including the prizes, while the rest goes to the event's charity recipient or club treasury. In charity events usually most, if not all of the funds goes to the selected charity. Prizes, such as money, plaques, or merchandise donated by commercial sponsors of the event, are awarded for the best hand. Some runs will award smaller awards for lower hands or even the lowest hand.

Each checkpoint might offer food or entertainment, either covered by the entry fee or at additional cost. Each participant is responsible to maintain the integrity of their hand during the run. Hands are usually written down or marked with punched holes on a ticket, rather than assembled from actual cards given to the riders. The only requirement is that riders arrive at the final checkpoint by the time prizes are awarded, usually near the end of the day, typically at a party with food and refreshments. It might be required that participants collect all of the requisite number of cards, five or seven, or they might be allowed to miss checkpoints and use a hand with fewer cards, though the odds of a winning hand are much lower.

Transport[edit]

Although most events are on motorcycles, off-road vehicles, boats, or horses, events involving small aircraft, ATVs, bicycles, golf carts, snowmobiles,^[3] skateboards,^[4] running,^[5] canoeing and kayaking,^[6] and geocaching^[7] have been held.

Street lined with motorcycles at a rally in Marietta, Ohio which incorporates a 'Ride for the Red' dice run benefiting the American Red Cross.

Dice run[edit]

A dice run is one variation, where instead of collecting cards, participants roll dice at each stop. The object is to have the highest score as determined by the sum of the dice rolls.

Notes[edit]

^'Largest motorcycle Poker run - Guinness World Records Blog post - Home of the Longest, Shortest, Fastest, Tallest facts and feats'. Community.guinnessworldrecords.com. 2009-04-18. Archived from the original on 2009-05-09. Retrieved 2012-05-16.
^'Largest motorcycle poker run (single venue)'. 2012-11-06. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
^[1]Archived July 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^'Poker Run', Silverfish Longboarding - The Longboard Skateboard Community - P - General Longboard Glossary, archived from the original on 12 December 2007, retrieved 2010-07-02
^[2]Archived August 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier: Canoe/kayak poker run will benefit ill children
^Geocaching.com: First Annual Lillington Poker Run

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Join us for Winterfest 2020 Snowmobile Poker Run! Lead is one of the country’s top snowmobiling destinations! We have over 365 miles of interconnected, groomed trails within the Black Hills National Forest waiting to be explored. SO YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS THIS RUN!

HERE’S THE DETS:
Registration starts from 7am to 8:45am at Steel Wheel Trading Post. Participants have 5 hours to return to the designated ending point: this is NOT a race! Your time between stops does not matter – enjoy the ride – but play safe, friends! The Best poker hand wins: cash prizes will be awarded to the 1st, 2nd & 3rd place hands. Awards take place at Steel Wheel Trading Post @ 2 pm; participants must be present to receive any winnings!

Preregister at the Lead Area Chamber of Commerce or the day of at the Steel Wheel Campground/Trading Post .

What Is A Atv Poker Run

$20 Registration Fee for 5 cards, 5 card draw. $5 for additional card upon return.