Desert Storm Pokerrun 2009
The fifth annual Desert Storm Poker Run took place April 23rd-26th 2009 and was a great success with four action packed days for performance boaters. Teague Custom Marine has been the title sponsor since the events inception. Bob, Andrea, Cherilyn Teague and their entire crew were intensely involved in the organization and support of the charity event with Jim Nichols and his Lake Racer volunteers. (Teague Custom Marine also sells and distributes our favorite Marine Cleaners for the California/West Coast Market.)
The popular street party on McCullough Blvd. kicked off the festivities on Thursday with a record number of vendors displaying the hottest race boats, pleasure boats and tow vehicles. For the second year the Bio-Kleen Team was there to showcase their Poker Run cigarette boat and marine and motorcycle cleaners. Bio-Kleen cleaning products can now be found all over the place in the Lake Havasu area including: Absolute Marine, Savage Marine, HTM2, Ron’s Custom Detail, Prestige, Car Toyz Car Wash, Hy-Tech, Pure Performance, High Torque Marine, Red Line Speed, Absolute Speed and Lake Havasu RV & Boat Storage. Way to go Havasu on keeping the waters clean.
The poker run on Friday turned out to be a beautiful 90 degree day. In this challenging economic climate it was phenomenal to have 170 boats participating. Each boat classed by speed from A-G paraded through the packed channel, under the London Bridge and on to the card stations. Lunch was hosted at the Nautical Resort, as well as the Friday night card turn in, which included munchies, brews and a live band.
Saturday the Lake of the Ozarks style Shootout was back again this year at Desert Storm. Hundreds of boats and spectators gathered at Rotary Park and watched the boats roar through the one mile course. Extremely fast boats in every size competed including Rick Bowling in Gone Again; a 38 foot Talon with a top speed of 141 mph. The King Of The Desert with a top speed of 174mph in 17.53 seconds was Greg Olson from Alliance, Nebraska in a 2007 thirty three foot Daytona called Fatal Attraction (video below). The awards banquet was held at the Lake Havasu Aquatic Center. The winners of the poker run hands were announced: 1st place was Jesse Lovato from Corona , CA with 4 of a kind aces, 2nd place with 4 of a kind jacks was Gunnar Strunz from Anaheim, CA and 3rd place went to Shelby Seder with 4 of a kind tens. $20,000 in cash and prizes were given away to the participants.
On Sunday the POPRA were in Thompson Bay with exciting close up offshore racing. One of the P2 boats rolled completely over, check the video below. The MTI CRC racing team took home the honors of the day. The 4 day spectacular was a successful, nearly incident free, safe event with all of the proceeds donated to the Soldiers Angels to help support the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
View all of Bio-Kleen’s Photos from the Desert Storm Pokerrun in Lake Havasu 2009
King of the Desert 2009, Greg Olson’s 174mph Run
Sunday POPRA Race Boat Roll
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