Crossroads Show and Shine walking poker run

Posted 7/11/18

The Walking Poker Run will commence at the Body Builders Body Shop, located at 211 South Elm, at 10:00am where participants can pay their $5.00 to get their poker card before heading over to the five different businesses.

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Crossroads Show and Shine walking poker run

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The 3rd Annual Crossroads Show and Shine Car Show will take pxghboring parking lot. The show, which used to be held at the show area at the fairgrounds before moving downtown, is open to cars, trucks, and motorcycles of all makes and models, including drivable and work-in-progress. Door prizes will be handed out, the ‘Keg of Cash’ is set to return, and at 3:00PM, three lucky entries will win cash. And that is not all. The annual Walking Poker Run is also back. “You buy a poker hand sheet that has a place for five cards: a heart, diamond, spade, and clover. You then take the card to five different stops.   At each stop you will draw one card from a deck of cards [and] they will write on your sheet what you drew. The card you drew is put back into the deck and the next person can draw the same card.  You can also buy one card at the registration table when you get back.  The best five card hand wins,” explains Vicki Brown of the Crossroads Show and Shine Car Show. The Walking Poker Run will commence at the Body Builders Body Shop, located at 211 South Elm, at 10:00am where participants can pay their $5.00 to get their poker card before heading over to the five different businesses. Those businesses will include, in order, Lickety Stitch Quilts, Same As It Once Was Antiques, Allbrights True Value Hardware, Hometown Country, and Rough ‘N Refined. Participants have from 10:00 to 12:30PM to get their cards turned back in at the body shop where, to improve their odds, they can purchase a sixth card for two dollars more. “I have done poker runs in a car and also walking poker runs.  We decided to add it to our list of things people can do while at the car show,” states Brown of running the car show and the walking poker run in conjunction with each other. While participants can drive if they choose, Brown explains that all the stops are within a two block radius of each other and the car show. “We have had more participants and I feel it was a great move to go downtown.   It helps our local businesses.  People can walk to restaurants and they can shop.   That is another reason we like doing the walking poker run, it gets people into the stores” says Brown. Per Brown, the number of the walking poker run participants has increased in the last few years with 2016 bringing twenty-one participants and 2017 boasting thirty-six. For this year, Brown says her goal is fifty people. 

For the overall car show, Brown says she hopes to see that grow as well, “We have gotten a great response from entries in the two prior years.  We have gotten calls from people in surrounding states of interest in coming so hopefully our numbers will be up and we hope to continue to grow.  It is always exciting to see different entries and to see the great people who bring their cars and motorcycles from prior years”.