Poker Run Success

On a beautiful sunny windy day (being last Sunday) volunteers from the HRRRF showed up at Andretti's in Roswell to begin our first annual Poker Run. Everyone begin setting up by 9:15 and by 9:30 we began to see bikes pulling into the parking lot. Oh boy, it's going to be a good day.!. By 10am registration was set up and signing up the bikers for the ride. By 10:30 more had arrived and the first group left on their 70 mile ride. I was one of the riders as I rode on a bike with a friend who owns a Honda Valkyrie motorcycle. He gave me some very explicit instructions for being a rider on the back of a very heavy motorcycle and off we went with the first group. One of our volunteers had put up a sign at each and every turn which made it very easy to follow the route as no one was familiar with the entire route areas. There were a total of (4) stops where we drew our cards in hopes of having a great Poker Hand. Everyone was due back at Andretti's in Roswell by 2pm. There were many raffle prizes to be drawn for. Many of the bikers purchased raffle tickets the length of their bikes. by 3 pm all raffle prizes were drawn and given away, the winner of the best Poker Hand for a cash prize of $300 was determined and a cash prize of $50 for the worst poker hand was determined. All in all it was a good day for the horses/farm animals at the Horse Rescue Relief and Retirment, Fund Inc. Thanks to all that put flyers out, obtained raffle prizes, planned, purchased items needed, donated their time, stood in the hot sun all day and volunteered for this fund raising event. We especially thank all of the businesses that allowed us to use them as a stop. We also want to thank the businesses that donated items to the benefit of the Poker Run. Without all of the businesses and volunteers we could not have raised the money to help benefit the many horses and farm animals at HRRRF.