Annual Loch Sport Poker Run on the Gippsland Lakes
A Poker run is not a race. It’s a game of chance and an assembly of vessels of all pedigrees and proportions. A Poker Run is fun on the water, boating at its most enjoyable, and a chance to renew old acquaintances and make new friends. Each participating boat navigates a carefully charted course, stopping at 5 checkpoints along the route to pick-up a sealed envelope containing a single playing card. At the final checkpoint, the envelopes are opened and the crew holding the best poker hand is declared the winner! Find out more about a Poker Run
Bandits Pirates and poker cards were the theme for the best dressed boats and crew at the Fourth annual Poker Run on the Gippsland Lakes at Loch Sport. A family from Berwick holding up their poker SWAT number for the judging past the jetty.
22 boats cruised around the course to the four poker stations to pick up their envelopes with playing cards. A lunch stop at Spermwhale head Point Wilson and a try at tossing the “thong” before returning to the Loch Sport Boat club for their last card, dinner and music to local band “Makin’ Waves”
A couple from Sale holidaying on the lakes in their 35’ cruiser joined the fleet and picked up the best hand and the 2nd and 3rd hands were entries from Loch Sport.
The Poker Run held on Saturday 25th February was a great success with 25 boats traveling the course to pick up their secret cards in envelopes, with lunch at Pt Wilson catered by the Loch Sport Red Cross.
