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Welcome to Poker Run 2015 - Alaskan Adventure! Put on your best poker face and see if you can come up with the best poker hand. There are 7 flights to do. After each flight a new card is drawn for your hand. After you have all 7 cards, just select your best 5 card poker hand and submit it.

Your current hand can be viewed at any time: http://air-source.us/operations/poker_run/poker_run.php

Purchasing Cards: Running out of time to finish the flights? Don't have time to do the flights but still want to participate? You may purchase your poker cards for v$1000 a card.

Route
The route for this event starts and ends at Anchorage international (PANC). All flights can be found in the BID Division

PANC - Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Anchorage, Alaska
PADU - Unalaska Airport, Unalaska, Alaska
PAOM - Nome Airport, Nome, Alaska
PABR - Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport, Barrow, Alaska
PAFA - Fairbanks International Airport, Fairbanks, Alaska
PAVD - Valdez Pioneer Field Airport, Valdez, Alaska
PASI - Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport, Sitka, Alaska
then back to PANC

7 legs, approx 3285nm

Suggested Aircraft
Fly your trusty Beech Baron 58 or any DEPS type aircraft

Rules

• All flights must be flown using myAAS
• Flights are to be flown between 27Jun15 and 26Jul15
• Flights should be flown in the suggested aircraft or in the same category of aircraft (as found Here)

Awards
Everyone participating in the event (must submit a hand) will receive a logbook award. Also the following bonuses for the best hands:

• 1st Place: v$30,000
• 2nd Place: v$20,000
• 3rd Place: v$10,000

Most of all, Have Fun!

Just a clarification...although it's not required to view the event page after every flight, you do have to after all 7 flights are completed. This will make sure your cards get generated *and* so you can submit your hand.

http://air-source.us/operations/poker_run/poker_run.php

Great idea! Count me in!

I'am in! Have been excited to see this! Great work! I start now! :)

Wish I could do.

Hello Joe:

I'm not sure who all was involved in creating the AS Alaskan Poker Run, but I wanted to thank you (and others involved if they were), for a great event. I finished my seventh route today and greatly enjoyed each leg of the run. Picking Alaska and limiting it to props made for fun low and slow flying and sightseeing. Thank you and anyone else involved for this event. I look forward to a similar such event.

I'am done - one leg left - my hand sux
But all great flights - Thank you

Came to this late as I've been away on holiday in Greece. Great Idea !
Just completed my 4th flight.

With the event ending Sunday the 26th at 23:59Z, there's only a few days left to get your poker hands finished up and submitted (either by flying or buying).

Great event Joe (although I would have preferred better than a pair of queens!).

Had me flying into places I otherwise would have been unlikely to fly and using real weather I had some pretty hair raising approaches amongst the mountains!

Hope everyone else is enjoying the event and remember you only have a day or so left to fly and file your flights and show your hand!

Thanks, Mark. Glad you enjoyed it. I'll be more than happy to trade you my pair of twos

AS201 Joe wrote:Thanks, Mark. Glad you enjoyed it. I'll be more than happy to trade you my pair of twos

I did see that and smiled. I think Norm did even worse than you!

AS380 Mark Richards wrote:

AS201 Joe wrote:Thanks, Mark. Glad you enjoyed it. I'll be more than happy to trade you my pair of twos

I did see that and smiled. I think Norm did even worse than you!

Maybe because I don't have a poker face lucky enough to get an Ace!

Thanks to everyone who participated, I hope you enjoyed the event. Final hands can be viewed here.

Congrats to:
1st Place: v$30,000 - AS62 Mike Padgett????????????Straight, Queen high
2nd Place: v$20,000 - AS86 Terry Wright????????????Straight, 5 high
3rd Place: v$10,000 - AS20 Gary Davis????????????????????Two Pair, Aces and Sevens

also thank you to the rest of the participants:
AS543 Bruce Watson
AS2 Tom Little
AS455 Don Smith
AS248 John Iverson
AS356 Kyle Broadbent
AS336 Don Gore
AS530 Mark Vall
AS265 Paul Gutzman
AS380 Mark Richards
AS57 Jeff Summers
AS188 Scott Clawson
AS150 Hugh Urquhart
AS29 Barry Woodward
AS552 Ashley Winters
AS176 Andre Vermeulen
AS283 Roger Dean
AS201 Joe Hamilton
AS295 Neil Burgess
AS195 Jim Skorna
AS121 Stephen Barker
AS37 Norm Edwards
AS386 Robert Whitelock
AS300 Randy King

Awards will be posted on Wednesday (7-29)

Thanks again and see you next time.

Would be fun to have more events like this!????