Poker Run Format - should it be changed?
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Big MPH Boats should be Run On Oceans or Great Lakes or Wide Bodies of Water lots of Room to Pin It.
Thats what the 38'-50'size is Made for and Called, Off Shore
Thats what the 38'-50'size is Made for and Called, Off Shore
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From: Antioch, Il
I certainly don't want to point fingers at anyone, especially at this time, given this unfortunate accident, but I just came across this video on You Tube- also from the Lake Cumberland Poker Run.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AoHBQNqNSg
From what I can see, this Skater separated form the rest of the group and made a very close pass between that Checkmate and a few other boats.....
Why go all the way over there when you have more room in the main channel of the lake?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AoHBQNqNSg
From what I can see, this Skater separated form the rest of the group and made a very close pass between that Checkmate and a few other boats.....

Why go all the way over there when you have more room in the main channel of the lake?
Idiotic...
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From: LBC, OH
Where I live, you'd been picking beer bottles out of the seat back, if they missed.....
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Edit: Point is I just don't want the owner of PP to get "outed" when JT got a "pass" for the same thing.
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From: Shamong, N.J
What an absolute tool in the red skater passing between parked boats like that ! I would go to the dock where he is and take him for a swim !
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Everyone makes mistakes. Sounds like JT made a mistake a few years back, and if memory serves me he heard about it. That being said, it appears the PP skater has done this on multiple occasions (if it is the same boat in both videos). While I don't think JT doing it a few years back was acceptable in anyway at all, to do this type of thing multiple times shows a complete disregard for the safety of his crew and the safety of innocent spectators.
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I'm not disagreeing with you but John Tomlinson did the exact same thing a few years ago at Desert Storm poker run in the silver M35 DCB that flipped earlier this year. People were upset about it til it was said that JT was driving and then the attitude changed to "well, he is a professional race boat driver". I just don't think it's right that people on here are already saying the owner of the PP Skater should be booted from boating events when everyone turned a blind eye to when JT did it and he's been welcome at the boating events ever since.
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From: Joplin<MO
If you want to eliminate speed in a poker run, limit the field to sailboats. Saftey assured...



