Gympie Ulysses Poker Run

We've all done it. Signed up for a poker run, get three cards in and have a crap hand and lose all enthusiasm for the remainder of the ride.

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Now, honestly if you sign up for a charity poker run with the expectation of winning and coming out ahead, then you're probably doing it for the wrong reason. But, from a competitive spirit kind of thing, we all hate to lose and it's even worse when halfway through the game you know there's no way you can win.

That's why we like a slight variation on this old standard..the POKER CHIP RUN.

What makes this game better than a standard 5 card poker run is NOBODY has a clue if they have a good hand or a bad hand until they return to the starting point.

A poker run is a fun way to earn money for a charitable cause. While there are many variations, typically a poker run involves participants collecting playing cards from specified locations. At the end of the run, the participant with the best poker hand wins the prize. Poker runs typically involve motorcyclists, but. Whether you play on an iPhone Gympie Ulysses Poker Run or Android, mobile gambling apps offer top graphics, smooth software and best of all, you can play everywhere.

That helps you (as the event organizer) in several ways. The first is the majority of your participants will enjoy the event all the way through, you'll ensure that almost everyone will return to the start (instead of dropping out halfway) and the old 'I don't know how to play poker' excuse some people use for not attending your event.

How it works

The poker chip run is the simplest run you can set up. Here's what you need to do.

1. Decide on the number of stops you will have. Typically you can have as many as 5 or as few as three. If you're short on volunteers to man your stops, then we recommend having only 1 additional stop someone along the route. This gives you 3 draws from the poker chip bag. One when they register and before they leave, one at the stop out on the route, and one when they return to the starting point.

Get a set of generic poker chips, or contact Custom Products Plus (478-299-4601) for custom printed chips.

Divide the chips into equal numbers in a opaque bag so your participants can't see which color they're getting.

At each stop have your participants draw out 3 chips. Then note the colors drawn on their registration sheet.

That's it. Pretty simple huh?

Oh yea, once everyone leaves for the run, or (preferably) once everyone is back in and all the sheets have been returned, stage a public drawing where you put 1 chip of each color in the bag and have a volunteer reach into the bag and blindly draw out a chip. The first chip drawn is worth 20 points, the second chip is worth 10 points and the third chip is worth 5 points.

For example, if the first chip drawn is red, then every red chip drawn on the ride is worth 20 points. If the second chip is white then all the white chips are worth 10 points and the blue chips were worth 5 points.

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The beauty of this is that because the value of the chips wasn't established until AFTER the ride concluded, no one knew if they had a good hand or not. They could've had all blue chips, or all red chips or all white chips and they either won big, or was a big loser!

Just make sure the person blind drawing the chips has no way to tell which color is which when they're in the bag and that person doesn't know anything about the participants scores or who has what colors on their sheets.

But if it's a blind draw, it's still pretty hard for anyone to cheat with this system.

If you have questions, or need more info, call us at Biker Nation, 478-268-7528 and we'll be happy to answer any questions about this system. We've used this dozens of times and it works great!

Molly Bloom is a fictional character in the 1922 novel Ulysses by James Joyce. The wife of main character Leopold Bloom, she roughly corresponds to Penelope in the Odyssey. The major difference between Molly and Penelope is that while Penelope is eternally faithful, Molly is not. Molly is having an affair with Hugh 'Blazes' Boylan. Molly, whose given name is Marion, was born in Gibraltar on 8 September 1870, the daughter of Major Tweedy, an Irish military officer, and Lunita Laredo, a Gibraltarian of Spanish descent. Molly and Leopold were married on 8 October 1888. She is the mother of Milly Bloom, who, at the age of 15, has left home to study photography. She is also the mother of Rudy Bloom, who died at the age of 11 days. In Dublin, Molly is an opera singer of some renown.

The final chapter of Ulysses, often called 'Molly Bloom's Soliloquy', is a long and unpunctuated stream of consciousness passage comprising her thoughts as she lies in bed next to Bloom.

Soliloquy[edit]

Molly Bloom's soliloquy is the eighteenth and final 'episode' of Ulysses, in which the thoughts of Molly Bloom are presented in contrast to those of the previous narrators, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. Molly's physicality is often contrasted with the intellectualism of the male characters, Stephen Dedalus in particular.

Joyce's novel presented the action with numbered 'episodes' rather than named chapters. Most critics since Stuart Gilbert, in his James Joyce's Ulysses, have named the episodes and they are often called chapters. The final chapter is referred to as 'Penelope', after Molly's mythical counterpart.

In the course of the monologue, Molly accepts Leopold into her bed, frets about his health, and then reminisces about their first meeting and about when she knew she was in love with him. The final words of Molly's reverie, and the final words of the book, are:

I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish Wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

Joyce noted in a 1921 letter to Frank Budgen that '[t]he last word (human, all too human) is left to Penelope.' The episode both begins and ends with 'yes', a word that Joyce described as 'the female word' and that he said indicated 'acquiescence, self-abandon, relaxation, the end of all resistance.'^[1] This last, clear 'yes' stands in sharp contrast to her unintelligible first spoken line in the fourth chapter of the novel.

Molly's soliloquy consists of eight enormous 'sentences', The concluding period following the final words of her reverie is one of only two punctuation marks in the chapter, the periods at the end of the fourth and eighth 'sentences'. When written this episode contained the longest 'sentence' in English literature, 4,391 words expressed by Molly Bloom (it was surpassed in 2001 by Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club).^[2]

Sources[edit]

Joyce modelled the character upon his wife, Nora Barnacle; indeed, the day upon which the novel is set — June 16, 1904, now called Bloomsday — is that of their first date. Nora Barnacle's letters also almost entirely lacked capitalization or punctuation; Anthony Burgess has said that 'sometimes it is hard to distinguish between a chunk of one of Nora's letters and a chunk of Molly's final monologue'.^[3] Some research also points to another possible model for Molly in Amalia Popper, one of Joyce's students to whom he taught English while living in Trieste. Amalia Popper was the daughter of a Jewish businessman named Leopoldo Popper, who had worked for a European freight forwarding company (Adolf Blum & Popper) founded in 1875 in its headquarters in Hamburg by Adolf Blum, after whom Leopold Bloom was named. In the (now published) manuscript Giacomo Joyce, are images and themes Joyce used in Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Cultural references[edit]

Literature[edit]

• J.M. Coetzee's novel Elizabeth Costello portrays the fictional writer Costello as the author of a fictional novel, The House on Eccles Street, which is written from Molly Bloom's point of view.
• Susan Turlish's play Lafferty's Wake features the character Molly Greaney quoting from Molly's monologue.
• Nobel Laureate Mo Yan concludes The Republic of Wine with what could be seen as an homage to Molly's soliloquy.

Music[edit]

• Kate Bush song 'The Sensual World' echos Molly Bloom's soliloquy. Bush's 2011 album Director's Cut includes a newer version of the track ('Flower of the Mountain') with new vocals that use the original Joyce text.
• Amber produced a Dance Song entitled 'Yes.'
• 'Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes' is the title of a track by Bristol-based jazz quartet Get the Blessing, appearing on their album Bugs in Amber.
• Tom Paxton's album '6' contains a song titled 'Molly Bloom'.
• The video of Endless Art by A House spells out part of the soliloquy letter by letter.

Film and television[edit]

• The soliloquy is featured in a Rodney Dangerfield movie, Back to School, wherein it is read aloud to a college English class by Dr. Diane Turner (played by Sally Kellerman).
• Stephen Colbert's parody of Donald Trump's announcement for his presidential candidacy, entitled 'Announcing: an Announcement,' recites part of the soliloquy in an otherwise random series of statements.^[4]

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Art[edit]

• A bronze sculpture of Molly Bloom stands at the Alameda Gardens in Gibraltar. This running figure was commissioned from Jon Searle to celebrate the bicentenary of the Gibraltar Chronicle in 2001.^[5]

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Other[edit]

The character Ralph Spoilsport recites the end of the soliloquy, with erratic variations in gender pronouns, as the last lines of the Firesign Theatre's album How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All.

References[edit]

1. ^Kenner, Hugh (1987). Ulysses. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 147. ISBN0801833841.
2. ^Parody, Antal (2004). Eats, Shites & Leaves: Crap English and How to Use it. Michael O'Mara. ISBN1-84317-098-1.
3. ^Ingersoll, edited by Earl G.; Ingersoll, Mary C. (2008). Conversations with Anthony Burgess (1. printing. ed.). Jackson: University press of Mississippi. p. 51. ISBN160473096X.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
4. ^Stephen Colbert (June 16, 2015). Announcing: an Announcement. Event occurs at 5:18.
5. ^'Special Events'. Gibraltar Chronicle. 2001. Archived from the original on 30 October 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2013.

Further reading[edit]

• The Chronicle of Leopold and Molly Bloom: Ulysses as Narrative full preview on Google Books
• Blamires, Harry (1988). The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses (Revised Edition Keyed to the Corrected Text). London: Routledge. ISBN0-415-00704-6.
• Joyce, James (1992). Ulysses: The 1934 Text, as Corrected and Reset in 1961. New York: The Modern Library. ISBN0-679-60011-6.

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External links[edit]

• 'Molly Bloom's Website (Rock Band)'. 2009-09-30.

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• 'Molly Bloom's Website (Canadian Pub)'. 2008-01-21.

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