Cruz Skate Shop Poker Run

On Sat­ur­day March 5, 2011 Cruz Skate Shop will be host­ing a unique skate­board con­test in the streets of San Fran­cisco. You are all invited. Have you ever heard of a Poker Run? It’s huge in motor­cy­cle cul­ture. I was exposed to them while work­ing at Thee Park­side and have always thought it would be such a rad thing to do on skate­boards. So with the Cruz Skate Shop 3 year anniver­sary com­ing up, we decided to go for it. This is how it works: At 11am every­one meets up at the Precita Park (Fol­som & Precita) to sign up for the run. We go over the rules and explain how it all works. At , NOON we all take off headed toward our first stop. At each stop along the way each player gets a sin­gle card (Ace of hearts, 10 of clubs, etc). All total there will be 5 dif­fer­ent stops, each time get­ting one card each. Now, because the run is spon­sored by LOWCARD, we decided that the player with the WORST poker hand at the FIFTH AND FINAL stop (Thee Park­side around 4pm) wins.

The 5 stops along the way will be announced the day of. This forces peo­ple to get out of bed and get to the meet­ing spot instead of just meet­ing up around stop 3 or 4. If you don’t get to the meet­ing spot before 11am, you don’t know where were going. This keeps every­one together and ends up being way more fun. Any skate­boarder, regard­less of skill level, can enter this con­test. It’s more about cruis­ing around the city with your friends fol­low­ing the mob of madness. THE STOPS ALONG THE RUN: The Meet­ing Spot – (11am) sign ups! @ Precita Park (Fol­som & Precita) Stop #1 – (Noon-ish) Some­where in the Mission. Stop #2 – (1-ish) Some­where in the Mission. Stop #3 – (2pm-ish) to make the Poker Run a lit­tle more inter­est­ing we decided to have a best trick con­test right in the mid­dle. But you will need to start with us to know where it will be, and you’ll need to end with us to know if you’ve won. Stop #4 – (3pm-ish) Some­where in the Mission. Stop #5 – (4pm-ish) Thee Park­side / Awards given out. 5pm – After the awards there will be a FREE / ALL AGES show, and food and drink spe­cials for all. The Poker Run leads you right to the after party! What can I roll on? Skate­boards ONLY. If their are a few babes on roller skates, I’m not gonna tell them to go home. But no bikes, motor­cy­cles, scoot­ers, blades, long­boards, cars, etc.. will be allowed to enter the run. This poker run is for skate­board­ers, so bring your skateboard. Can I ride my cruiser board? Its not a race. You want to roll in com­fort? go for it. You wanna do tricks along the way, show us what you got. But as long as you make it to all 5 stops, youre in the run­ning to win the contest. It’s gonna be hard to cheat… We have marked each card so we know what card was given to each player at what stop. Each card will be sta­pled to a sheet that you’re given at the time of sign up. This will hope­fully stop play­ers from try­ing to cheat. This is Poker. How good is your poker face?? Oh, and you can’t bluff. This hand is played face up. Watch out for one another. As we skate from stop to stop please be aware of traf­fic and of each other. We don’t want any­one to get hit and or hurt. And watch out for cops too! Though I’m sure all of us are well aware of them. If you have any ques­tions please con­tact me at: gordon@cruzskateshop.com - Gor­don Eckler