A poker run is where bikers gather at a given place, sign in pay and join various drawings. You then leave at a assigned time, ride, to another assigned place according to a designed route. This can be done in your own group of friends that you're with or it can be done with the entire collective of participants, depending on the host preferences. When you reach stop 1 everyone draws a card. This goes 3 more stops through the day until you get back to the starting point or the last stop. Again according to the host preferences. Of course the one with the highest hand at the end of the day wins. At this point you're having a cheap dinner, usually hot dogs and or maybe burgers while the drawings are taking place. 50/50's, door prizes donated by sponsors, etc. This particular poker run, for $5 a ticket, gives away a bike at the end of the day. This year it's a road king. This particular poker run will donate proceeds to 12 charities. This particular poker run has a tendency to draw in a few to several hundred people. Some poker runs, usually quite smaller, are held for an individual someone knows that is going through hard times or a family that has had someone recently passed away. In which in that case, some are a yearly event in their name in which the proceeds and donations go to the cause of certain deaths like cancer that they may have died from. We have many through the year that are specifically for kids in various aspects. Certain types of illness they have or had, money donated to a foundation of that effect. Various Veterans causes is another popular one. Bikers giving back to our communities in a socialized effort to help others!

@William_Mary Thnks for that.