Pirates Point Lake Of The Ozarks (2024)

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What is the poker run at Lake of the Ozarks? ›

The Spring Harbor Hop is held the first Saturday in May and the Fall Harbor Hop is held the second Saturday in October. Draw cards at more than 40 locations around the Lake of the Ozarks to make a winning poker hand in the Harbor Hop.

Ameren Missouri, the utility that operates the dam and controls the Lake of the Ozarks shoreline, caps boat slips at 55 feet for residential areas and 60 feet for commercial developments — effectively limiting boats that can stay at the lake for long times.

On Sept. 5, 1929, workers began clearing the land that would become Lake of the Ozarks, cutting down 30,000 acres of timber and demolishing the town of Linn Creek. Less than two years later, on May 30, 1931, weeks after being declared complete, the Lake of the Ozarks officially opened to boat traffic.

Each participating boat navigates a carefully charted course, stopping at five checkpoints along the route to pick up a sealed envelope containing a single playing card. At the final checkpoint, the envelopes are opened and the crew holding the best poker hand is declared the winner!

Straight (Run): Five sequential cards, not of the same suit. Three of a Kind: Three cards of the same rank e.g. three Aces, three Kings etc. Two Pair: Two sets of pairs e.g. a pair of Aces and a pair of Kings.

It is illegal to operate a boat/PWC at speeds greater than “idle speed” within 100 feet of a: dock, occupied, anchored vessel, buoyed area. The speed limit at night is 30mph. Nighttime speed limits begin ½ hour after sunset and continue through 1 hour before sunrise.

You can launch your boat into Lake of the Ozarks at one of the three paved boat ramps: a four-lane ramp at each of the Grand Glaize Beach and Pa He Tsi locations and a two-lane ramp at Public Beach #1. Daily launch fees are $5 for vessels up to 30 feet in length and $10 for vessels over 30 feet in length.

Ameren Missouri owns or controls all the shoreline surrounding the Lake up to a specific elevation. The most important elevation to remember at Lake of the Ozarks is 662 feet above sea level. During the summer, this is 2 vertical feet above the full pool elevation of 660 feet.

according to The Lake of the Ozarks Water Safety Council's blog. In the past two years, there has been a slight decrease in the number of boating and drowning deaths on the lake. In 2021, there were 15 boating and drowning fatalities. In 2022, 11 were reported.

Why is Lake of the Ozarks so famous? ›

The Lake of the Ozarks is unique in the fact that it is the largest man-made, non-flood control lake in the United States.

If 2,800 gravesites were known about, but only 1,121 were found, that means there could easily be 1,600 or more graves underneath the Lake that were never relocated... Stories persisted among the old-timers that even when a gravesite was identified, there was no purpose in looking for the remains.

The Lake of the Ozarks earned its nickname "The Magic Dragon" because of its serpentine shape. 6. The Lake of the Ozarks contains approximately 617 billion gallons of water. 7.

The Lake of the Ozarks is one of the largest man-made lakes in the United States. With a surface area of 55,000 acres, stretching 92 miles from end to end, and over 1,150 miles of shoreline, this lake brings in millions of dollars in tourism to Missouri each year.

A poker run is an organized event in which participants, usually using motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, boats, snowmobiles, horses, on foot or other means of transportation, must visit five to seven checkpoints, drawing a playing card at each one. The object is to have the best poker hand at the end of the run.

A run, straight or sequence is a combination of playing cards where cards have consecutive rank values.

At each stop, one card will be drawn from a bag containing one full playing card deck (52 cards) including two joker cards per deck.

The stages consist of a series of three cards ("the flop"), later an additional single card ("the turn" or "fourth street"), and a final card ("the river" or "fifth street"). Each player seeks the best five-card poker hand from any combination of the seven cards: the five community cards and their two hole cards.