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Peter Barclay had volunteered to organise the event this year and did an excellent job of it. Peter also had some terrific helpers. A big thanks to Gentle, Mal and Richard for running the chuck wagon and cooking lunch. Thanks to Patt C for a great job as TEC - with just a little drama to deal with as Rob A overshot a corner and wound up throwing the bike into a ditch. Fortunately Rob wasn't hurt and showed his resilience by continuing the rest of the ride.
However, the stand out was the amazing morning tea (and lunch desert) baked and prepared by Di Barclay - just wait until you see the photos below. Thanks so much Di for not only the brilliant food but bringing a trailer load of chairs so that we didn't have to eat lunch standing up. I overheard quite a few people asking Di for her chocolate orange fudge recipes! For those who asked - the recipe is now added - just scroll down below the photos.
Thanks also to all who attended and participated and made the Poker Run a really enjoyable, fun event, despite the odd passing shower.
Below is Peter B's ride report:
How dare it rain on my ride. But it was possibly more comfortable riding today (Sunday) than Saturdays warm/hot weather. The criteria for the Poker run is to finish with a Barbie lunch, so that means a return as close to lunch time as we can manage. Hence, not as many K's as a normal Sunday ride. 120 K's was a good target. I sort of blew that a bit and trimmed it down to 150 K's. Timing worked out well I think.
Started from Maccas Waurn Ponds and took our usual run out the back of W/Ponds over to Ceres (Sorry No Eggs again) up through the Dog Rocks and up the Ballan road then Steiglitz Rd, chuck a lefty into Bakers bridge Rd to The Midland Hwy head north then west into Bannockburn. Time for our second card draw. (First at the start). Through Bannockburn, left into Masons Rd down to Hamilton Hwy east to Pollocksford Rd, Barrabool Rd. over Colac Rd. and wound our way through the Moderwarre area ending the first half (maybe 2/3rd's) of our journey at the Freshwater Creek Hall.
We all enjoyed a cuppa and some cakes and other delights supplied/ baked by my misses, Diane. Drew our third card, then back on the bikes, headed west from Fresh Creek, over to Forest Rd, headed south and hung a lefty at the chocolate factory, a loop past Bells Beach and over to the Bellbrae picnic area. Fourth card drawn, then we saddled up and a short run up the Anglesea Rd back to the Freshwater Creek hall, with Gentle, Mal, and Richard having stoked up the barbie for one of our famous Chuck wagon Barbies. Fifth card drawn, and winners prizes awarded, (3x 7's did it, with a pair of Aces winning 2nd and 3rd).
A big thanks to Gentle, for doing the grocery shopping and along with Mal and Richard cooking and generally preparing things for our invasion (twice). A big thanks to Pat for wagging the tail and my wife Diane for the baking.
We struck rain twice during the first half of our journey. The first just enough to settle the dust, but a little further south, it got a little heavier and a little windy, but in true Ulysses style we just motored through it and out the other side and left it behind. Our two stops in Fresh Creek were in sunny weather. Thanks to all participants for a great day, I know I enjoyed it. To those of you that requested a recipe of the slice, I will get it posted somewhere on the Geelong Ulysses site.
Thanks All. Peter B.
Congratulations to Terry for the winning poker hand!
Ingredients
500 g dark chocolate
1 can condensed milk
60 g butter
Method
Step 1 Combine all ingredients in a large bowl and microwave until chocolate is melted. Mix well till combined. This can be done in a pan on the stovetop but be careful not to burn your chocolate
Step 2 Leave as is or add ingredients of your own choice eg nuts, dried fruit. I added a packet of Choceur Fine Chocolate Orange thins (Aldi). Mint Thins are good as well.
Step 3 Pour mixture into a lined slice tin and refrigerate until set.
Step 4 Use a warm knife to cut slice into small squares.
If using milk chocolate alter weight to 600g milk chocolate
If using white chocolate alter weight to 800 to 900 of white chocolate
We've all done it. Signed up for a poker run, get three cards in and have a crap hand and lose all enthusiasm for the remainder of the ride.
Now, honestly if you sign up for a charity poker run with the expectation of winning and coming out ahead, then you're probably doing it for the wrong reason. But, from a competitive spirit kind of thing, we all hate to lose and it's even worse when halfway through the game you know there's no way you can win.
That's why we like a slight variation on this old standard..the POKER CHIP RUN.
What makes this game better than a standard 5 card poker run is NOBODY has a clue if they have a good hand or a bad hand until they return to the starting point.
The Terms and Conditions defined in this text (hereinafter referred to as “Terms and Conditions”) regulate the usage of Gympie Ulysses Poker Run the games provided through www.casumo.com, as well as other URLs licensed to or belonging to Casumo Services Limited (hereinafter referred to as “Website” or “Websites”). Blackjack Transportation Billings Mt, They played intermittently through May 1980 and increased their capital four-fold, but were theless more like a loose group sharing capital than a team with consistent strategies and quality control.
That helps you (as the event organizer) in several ways. The first is the majority of your participants will enjoy the event all the way through, you'll ensure that almost everyone will return to the start (instead of dropping out halfway) and the old 'I don't know how to play poker' excuse some people use for not attending your event.
How it works
The poker chip run is the simplest run you can set up. Here's what you need to do.
1. Decide on the number of stops you will have. Typically you can have as many as 5 or as few as three. If you're short on volunteers to man your stops, then we recommend having only 1 additional stop someone along the route. This gives you 3 draws from the poker chip bag. One when they register and before they leave, one at the stop out on the route, and one when they return to the starting point.
Get a set of generic poker chips, or contact Custom Products Plus (478-299-4601) for custom printed chips.
Poker Run Boats
Divide the chips into equal numbers in a opaque bag so your participants can't see which color they're getting.
At each stop have your participants draw out 3 chips. Then note the colors drawn on their registration sheet.
Gympie Ulysses Poker Run Rules
That's it. Pretty simple huh?
Oh yea, once everyone leaves for the run, or (preferably) once everyone is back in and all the sheets have been returned, stage a public drawing where you put 1 chip of each color in the bag and have a volunteer reach into the bag and blindly draw out a chip. The first chip drawn is worth 20 points, the second chip is worth 10 points and the third chip is worth 5 points.
For example, if the first chip drawn is red, then every red chip drawn on the ride is worth 20 points. If the second chip is white then all the white chips are worth 10 points and the blue chips were worth 5 points.
The beauty of this is that because the value of the chips wasn't established until AFTER the ride concluded, no one knew if they had a good hand or not. They could've had all blue chips, or all red chips or all white chips and they either won big, or was a big loser!
Just make sure the person blind drawing the chips has no way to tell which color is which when they're in the bag and that person doesn't know anything about the participants scores or who has what colors on their sheets.
Gympie Ulysses Poker Run Game
But if it's a blind draw, it's still pretty hard for anyone to cheat with this system.
Gympie Ulysses Poker Run Games
If you have questions, or need more info, call us at Biker Nation, 478-268-7528 and we'll be happy to answer any questions about this system. We've used this dozens of times and it works great!