10th Poker Run in the cards
Private Riders Motorcycle Club are once again going to hold a Poker Run.
The run will be held on May 1, which is also Workers Day.
Bikers and the public are invited to come and join in all the fun.
Last year’s Poker Run still lingers in everyone’s memory. The end stop was at a well-known pub in town.
Once the bikers arrived there, they had loads of fun, lots to eat and tons of jolly good laughs.
Funds collected were distributed to welfare organisations in eMalahleni.
This year promises to be more exciting as this is the tenth Poker Run held by the Private Riders. Taking the soaring petrol prices in consideration ,it was agreed on that the Poker Run will take bikers around eMalahleni alone.
The starting point will be at Round Table, 57 Hall Street on the c/o OR Tambo and Old Middelburg road and you may enter between 08:00 and 09:30.
The entrance fee is R100 per person and that includes a metal badge and a breakfast.
To round the day off the prize giving will be taking place at 15: 30 at the end stop, but here is the catch. You will only know where the end stop is, if you participate.
To make sure you have a good hand for this Poker Run contact Norman Griffiths: 074 186 5515.
Private Riders Motorcycle Club was founded in 1997 by Norman who started a chapter in Pretoria and shortly after that he moved to eMalahleni and started a local chapter.
Private Riders are ‘veterans’ in organising the Poker Runs.
The Poker Run actually has little to do with poker, beyond using the hand-rankings to score the event. Essentially a poker run is an excuse to meet up, travel, and have a good time at the stops (usually either five or seven). Participants meet at a pre-arranged point, and pick up details of their route and the stops they need to make. Each participant is given a score card that will be filled in as they progress along the route. At each designated stop, the participants draw a card at random (or are dealt a card, depending on the event rules). The card drawn or dealt is recorded on each participant’s score card and the winner of the event is the participant who makes the best five card poker hands at the end of the event.
Events usually end with some entertainment at the designated ‘last stop’ of the route, along with the awarding of the prizes.
