The Semper Fi Riders Board Members, its Marines, Associates, and our friends and families wish to thank you for your generosity and support for our 2018 Semper Fi Riders Annual Poker Run. Each year we have gone above and beyond to help raise money for our core charities that we support. We focus our 501 c(3) status on helping children's. Rough- Riders MC Poker Run and Rodeo: Event Date/Time: Friday, July 12, 2013 Host: Rough-Riders MC: Event Type: Poker Run: Event Description: Poker Run leaves the Pines in Cadillac at Noon. This includes Poker run, Rodeo and food after the run. Games, Prizes, Burn out pit, Full outside bar.

Presented by The Huntingdon Riders’ Club with a host of volunteers, sponsors and partners, the Poker Run is a tradition that is shared by equestrians of all disciplines from near and far. This year, part of the proceeds from this event will be given to Fixed Fur Life in loving memory of our longtime member and friend Judith Smith.
Come and enjoy a day of celebrating Stirling-Rawdon’s unique landscapes with great trails and friendly people where you can ride at your own pace. Cash prizes for the top 3 poker hands and lots of fabulous door prizes too!
Location is 1 kilometre east of 771 Sarles Road, Stirling, Ontario. Gates open at 9am. All riders are required to check in, where they will be asked to present proof of insurance, and sign our liability waiver (Junior without a parent/guardian present must download our waiver, have it properly signed, and bring it to the event.) Riders may then move off between 10-11am from the START. Lunch will be available from 12:30-1:30pm. Non-riders may buy lunch for $5. Winners of the prize categories will be announced at 1:30pm.

Entry fee is $50, payable by Etransfer to highland_farm@hotmail.com ), and includes a hamburger lunch. Post-entry fee of $10 applies after April 26th. Fees are non-refundable; credit will be applied to a future event if registrant is unable to attend. HELMETS and Equine liability INSURANCE (Intercity, OEF or comparable) are required. Please note that we are unable to accept homeowners insurance policies.

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]

Peninsula Riders Poker Run Game

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.

Peninsula Riders Poker Run Races

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

Peninsula Riders Poker Run Results

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