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2024 Poker Run
Mark your calendar!
Aug 10th 9:30 - 3pm we’ll be having a poker run to the local Retirement and Independent Living Residences in Barrie! This is sure to be a great event and will be very popular with the residents as well as the participants. Smiles for miles!!!!
Registration Fee $10.00
Payable day of event
Register at our trailer on cruise nights at H-Block parking lot beside the Barrie Library or if we’re at Heritage Park(Wednesday evenings.), by clicking attend button on this event page or by emailing [email protected]
All proceeds from the BTC Poker Run will be used towards our charities!
Seasons Centre for Grieving Children
Hospice Simcoe
Furry Friends Animal Shelter
What’s the plan?
We’ll be meeting at Roberta Place Retirement Lodge where you’ll be given a list of Retirement Residences in the Barrie city limits to visit. Bring your best navigators, passengers or a GPS!
Each Residence will be holding their own theme and handing out 1 playing card to each participant that passes through. Stop and say hi or carry on to the next location. The more residences visited the more cards you’ll have to make your best 5 card poker hand.
When you’re done your tour and making great memories for the residents and of course yourself you’ll head back to Roberta Place where we’ll see the best poker hands.
We have a former casino dealer judging hands!
Ties will be broken with a mean game of rock scissors paper! Bring your A game!
Plaques for top three spots!
After which we’ll hangout, listen to some music and some stories and may even fire up a BBQ.
Schedule:
Robert Place Retirement Lodge: Meet at 9:30am launch between 10:00 - 10:30
Host locations for picking up playing cards:
Chartwell Whispering Pines
Aspira Waterford Barrie
Victoria Village Manor
Amica Little Lake
Aspira The Barrieview Retirement Living
IOOF Seniors Home
Simcoe Terrace
Chartwell Allandale Station
Serenity Retirement Residence
Mill Creek Care Centre
Owen Hill Care Community
Woods Park Community and Retirement Living
Robert Place Retirement Lodge: Meet back at 1:30pm-2:00pm for for awards
Event wraps up for 3pm
You'll have just over 3 hours to drive around Barrie and visit the locations. *** This isn't the Cannon Ball Run so please respect posted speed limits. The club is in no way responsible for bad behaviour!
Why a poker run?
The idea for a poker run was born out of the many requests from various retirement and independent living residences to do car shows at their locations. We simply couldn’t make it to every location throughout the cruising season. This as you’d imagine was a disappointment for those residences that were left out. So a novel idea was to bring the show to every location that wanted to participate all at once. As you can image this was a popular idea with the cruising community and with the locations. It will provide ample fun for the driver, navigator and passengers not to mention the residents at the participating locations. Each location would run their own theme for the window that the classics would arrive. The Club would take a hands off approach and leave it up to the staff and residents to determine their themes. So a surprise at every location awaits. We hope you join us for an amazing day of smiles, excitement and cruising through Barrie while you hunt down the locations.
Check back often as we firm up hours and further details.
Please share and spread the word and help make this a successful event for the residents!
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Aug 10th 9:30 - 3pm we’ll be having a poker run to the local Retirement and Independent Living Residences in Barrie! This is sure to be a great event and will be very popular with the residents as well as the participants. Smiles for miles!!!!
Registration Fee $10.00
Payable day of event
Register at our trailer on cruise nights at H-Block parking lot beside the Barrie Library or if we’re at Heritage Park(Wednesday evenings.), by clicking attend button on this event page or by emailing [email protected]
All proceeds from the BTC Poker Run will be used towards our charities!
Seasons Centre for Grieving Children
Hospice Simcoe
Furry Friends Animal Shelter
What’s the plan?
We’ll be meeting at Roberta Place Retirement Lodge where you’ll be given a list of Retirement Residences in the Barrie city limits to visit. Bring your best navigators, passengers or a GPS!
Each Residence will be holding their own theme and handing out 1 playing card to each participant that passes through. Stop and say hi or carry on to the next location. The more residences visited the more cards you’ll have to make your best 5 card poker hand.
When you’re done your tour and making great memories for the residents and of course yourself you’ll head back to Roberta Place where we’ll see the best poker hands.
We have a former casino dealer judging hands!
Ties will be broken with a mean game of rock scissors paper! Bring your A game!
Plaques for top three spots!
After which we’ll hangout, listen to some music and some stories and may even fire up a BBQ.
Schedule:
Robert Place Retirement Lodge: Meet at 9:30am launch between 10:00 - 10:30
Host locations for picking up playing cards:
Chartwell Whispering Pines
Aspira Waterford Barrie
Victoria Village Manor
Amica Little Lake
Aspira The Barrieview Retirement Living
IOOF Seniors Home
Simcoe Terrace
Chartwell Allandale Station
Serenity Retirement Residence
Mill Creek Care Centre
Owen Hill Care Community
Woods Park Community and Retirement Living
Robert Place Retirement Lodge: Meet back at 1:30pm-2:00pm for for awards
Event wraps up for 3pm
You'll have just over 3 hours to drive around Barrie and visit the locations. *** This isn't the Cannon Ball Run so please respect posted speed limits. The club is in no way responsible for bad behaviour!
Why a poker run?
The idea for a poker run was born out of the many requests from various retirement and independent living residences to do car shows at their locations. We simply couldn’t make it to every location throughout the cruising season. This as you’d imagine was a disappointment for those residences that were left out. So a novel idea was to bring the show to every location that wanted to participate all at once. As you can image this was a popular idea with the cruising community and with the locations. It will provide ample fun for the driver, navigator and passengers not to mention the residents at the participating locations. Each location would run their own theme for the window that the classics would arrive. The Club would take a hands off approach and leave it up to the staff and residents to determine their themes. So a surprise at every location awaits. We hope you join us for an amazing day of smiles, excitement and cruising through Barrie while you hunt down the locations.
Check back often as we firm up hours and further details.
Please share and spread the word and help make this a successful event for the residents!
See less
Click on the poster to see our Facebook events page for more details
Plaques for the top 3 spots
Theses plaques were anonymously donated by a couple that absolutely loved the idea of a
poker run to the retirement homes here in Barrie.
They wanted to contribute to the event as they couldn’t make it Saturday. This is how they did it. We deeply appreciate the generosity!
They don’t want recognition - they said to say the plaques are from
“People who respect and appreciate what you’re doing” 💛
poker run to the retirement homes here in Barrie.
They wanted to contribute to the event as they couldn’t make it Saturday. This is how they did it. We deeply appreciate the generosity!
They don’t want recognition - they said to say the plaques are from
“People who respect and appreciate what you’re doing” 💛
Map For The Event
Check back often as we will add more details as they become available
Barrie Thunder Classics Poker Run Weather
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