Urban Scum Poker Hand Run

I love poker runs, but this year was almost a non-event. The Deluxe Bicycle club that ran last years event folded and it was looking like The Cup Day poker run was going to be called off. Luckily some friends of the group pitched in and we all went ahead as planned and assembled the Pedal Monkey krew.

Getting there proved a little tricky this time around as I took us one stop too far and we had to climb a pretty gnarly hill to get to the meeting place at the Darebin parklands. Alphington is definitely the better option. After registration we scored our course map and were on our way just after 11. The route this year was a little shorter but we hit the cobbles on the first section out of the park. It was a good reminder of what we came for.

The day went off without too many dramas, aside from a drop-in straight onto a tree root and a fairly spectacular stack from someone in our group, it was great. Low scoring hands were had by most of us and I don't think anyone in the group got better than a pair. The winning hand was 3 of a kind this year where as the year prior it was Aces full of 3's. Bike boy's hand was pretty miserable but not the worst on the day.