!! GUNNAR'S POKER ORIENTEERING !!

Campbell Creek Science Center

Saturday, September 14, 2002

Meet at Campbell Creek Science Center at 3:00 p.m.

There will be a mass start for all races at EXACTLY 3:40.

Short Poker-O (45 minutes)

Long Poker-O (1 hour 15 minutes)

Standard White course (start anytime)

How Poker-O Works: There are no control cards. The back of your map will serve as a control card. Punch the box by the appropriate number. It doesn’t have to fit exactly There will be approximately 30 controls. Each control station will have a playing card stapled to it. If you punch the space on the back of your map for a control station, you have added that card to your poker hand.

You may punch only five stations!!!--so that you end up with a five-card poker hand. The object of this event is to get the highest possible five-card poker hand (the ranking of poker hands is shown on the back of your map). You may visit as many stations as you wish, and return later to punch those stations which you choose to. For example, if the first station you reach is the three of clubs, you are probably best off not punching it. On the other hand, if you have only punched three stations so far, and you have only a few minutes left, and you come to the Ace of Diamonds, and you already have the three other aces, then you are probably well advised to punch it.

The playing cards stapled to each station will be randomly chosen from a shuffled deck. There is not necessarily any correlation between where a station is and the value of the card. It is possible--if unlikely--that the highest possible poker hand is the five stations closest to the Science Center. NO WRITING IMPLEMENTS!!! You may not carry any kind of pencil or pen to write down what the cards are at each station!

Ranking of Poker Hands (highest to lowest) (for non-poker sharps)

Royal flush (ace, king, queen, jack and 10 of the same suit)

Straight flush (any sequence of five cards of the same suit)

Four of a kind (four cards of the same denomination)

Full house (three cards of one denomination; two cards of another)

Flush (any five cards of the same suit)

Straight (any five cards of cards of more than one suit in sequence)

Three of a kind; Two pairs; One pair

Pick-Up Orienteering. At 4:55--Exactly 15 minutes after the finish of the Long Poker Orienteering Race there will be a Pick-Up Orienteering Race. The rules for Pick-Up Orienteering are very simple. There is a mass start. You have exactly twenty minutes. Whoever returns with the most controls wins.

The Awards potluck and Annual Meeting will be held In the Science Center at 5:30 p.m. following the Pick-Up Orienteering Race.

For more Information contact Gunnar Knapp at 907-786-7717 (work); 907-333-3195 (home); or afgpk@uaa.alaska.edu (e-mail)