Archive for the 'poker' Category

How to throw a poker run

Monday, March 15th, 2010

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

The concept of a poker run is easy. Each person tries to make the best 5 card poker hand.

The way it is played is, each bike has to ride along a planed rout, every few miles there are checkpoints at each checkpoint along the way each bike must stop and receive a card. Along the rout there are 7 checkpoints, and at the end the rider with the best 5 card poker hand wins the prize

Over the years the poker run has been adopted to lovers of many different hobbies.

 The poker run was originally an event bikers played on their Harley’s, but over the years it has been borrowed by boaters and even runners.

Throwing a poker run is fairly simple but takes time and some not to hard work. The first thing you need to do is get approval from the towns that your poker run will go thru. There may be some paperwork and fees.

You will also need to make sure that at the end of the run is at a park or event hall. Depending on where you live you may also need a permit for the park.

Next you will need riders. By figuring out how much you want to have for the prize money and how much the part after the poker ride will cost you can figure out how many riders you will need and how much the entrance fee will be, but it should be no more then $100 per bike.

The next thing you will need to do is register riders. The best way to do this is to make a website, go to biker bars and biker events in your area. If you live in New York don’t go to Daytona Bike week to sign up riders, most people will not travel that far for a poker run. Try to get locals.

After you have registered the riders you now have to plan for the party. Along with registering riders for your poker run you should also sell tickets so friends and family can join in the party after the ride is over and the poker winner is declared.

The best way to advertise the party is on a local radio station and with posters around town. The more people you can get the more money you will have for a prize and for whatever cause you are trying to raise money for.

You can either, buy your own food and get some friends to help cook or you can look in the phonebook for a caterer and you should be able to find a caterer who will throw you a great BBQ.

Then all you need to do is wait for the big day and enjoy all the bikes, poker, beef and beer.

Popularity: unranked [?]

Poker Movies – Top 5 Films about Poker

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

poker chips

Since the golden age of the Western, poker playing has always been a popular theme in Hollywood. Although many of the Hollywood films that feature poker are not very good and some of them even display poker in a ridiculous manner, watching poker action on the big screen is great fun, especially if you play poker yourself.

Here are the best poker movies that were ever produced in Hollywood. Some of the movies are actually excellent movies regardless to their display of the poker game, while in others the poker games is the feature that makes them worth watching. However, if you are a poker fan, add these movies to your musts list.

The Sting directed by George Roy Hill in 1973

The Sting is less about poker and more about the art of card sharking but it will provide you two hours of sophisticated fun. The 1973 Academy award winner features young Paul Newman as the greatest con artist of them all who mentors young Robert Redford in the art of trickestry. David S. Warn screenplay is based on true con games stories.

The Cincinnati Kid directed by Norman Jewison in 1965

The classic stud poker film known for its climatic final hand and the unforgettable quote: Gets down to what its all about, doesn’t it? Making the wrong move at the right time. In short, The Cincinnati Kid is about the battle between Steve Macqueen who plays a young poker player also known as The Kid and the veteran poker gambler known as The Man who is played by Edward G. Robinson during the Great Depression in New Orleans. It may not appear at any other list of best movies, but it certainly has one of the best poker scenes ever seen on the silver screen.

California Split directed by Robert Altman in 1974

California Split may not be the pick of Robert Altmans creation, but is one of the best movies to depict the messy everyday life of two professional gamblers played by George Segal and Elliott Gould. Like in many of Altman films, the narrative is not particularly straight and the end is not necessarily happy, but it does succeed in describing an authentic experience. Additionally, poker trivia fans would be thrilled to learn that poker legend Amarillo Slim plays a small role.

Rounders directed by John Dahl in 1998

It is hard to tell whether the movie pushed to the 21st century poker boom or the rise in the popularity of poker during the last decade made Rounders a cult hit. However, Rounders is one of the best poker films to display the contemporary high stake poker scene. The core of the movie is a long poker marathon in which Mat Damon and Edward Norton are trying to earn money to pay off the latter gambling debts. World Series of Poker champion Johnny Chan plays a featured role.

Maverick directed by Richard Donner in 1994

Although Maverick is not the most brilliant film ever made and some of the poker scenes are kinda silly, it is a fun and lightheaded poker movie. It might even provide you a basic idea on what it was like to be a rambling gambler in the old west card scene with Mel Gibson as a maverick who tries to earn enough money for the big five card draw poker tournament.

Popularity: 1% [?]

A Glossary of Online Poker Terms

Friday, August 7th, 2009

poker luck

Poker is a name set to huge sum of card games. What they have in common is that they are  on the status of five card hands.

The undeveloped games are fairly easy to learn. The object of the game is to win the money bet by having the best classification hands. Poker is mostly played with in a smallest of two players but around five to seven players is more practical.

The instructions of special games vary immensely. The quantity of to each player, the methods of bookmaking and the position of the hand can all differ.

Even games of the same name will varyin their play. It is therefore important to confirm that you entirely understand the rubric before you lead playing.

In reserved games you play against all additional players. In order to win you need to beat all of your opponents . Each actor turns at heart the seller. When you play in a nightclub, you have two options.

You can either bet against further players or against the casino. In the previous, the gaming house materials the dealer, charging a cut of the pot( the money bet) for this provision. A withdrawal around ten percent is common. Alternatively, the gaming club may make an hourly charge for the use of facilities. Let us look at some poker terms:

Ante:- a bet made before any cards have been dealt.

Babies:- slight value cards.

Bicycle:- see helm.

Blind Bet:- a bet made without looking at your cards.

Bluff:- tricking the new players into discerning that you have in actual fact good hand.

Board:- the community cards in games such as Holdem and Omaha .

Bone:- a new name for a chip.

Call:- a verbal avowal that thespian will match the previous bet.

Calling Station:- a play-actor who by the skin of your teeth ever raise.

Dead man’s hand:- two pair of aces over eights.

Draw:- in your hand for from the deck.

Flop:- the deal where the first three community cards are revealed in Holdem and Omaha.

Full House:- cards of the same value with pair, for example aces and two sixes.

Popularity: 1% [?]