With less than three weeks until the 2012 Desert Storm Poker Run extravaganza kicks off, Jim Nichols and the Lake Racer LLC crew are finalizing the tedious fine points that encompass the event in Lake Havasu City, Ariz.

New shootout course for the Desert Storm Poker Run in April.The legendary Street Party (on Thursday, April 26) is nearly filled to capacity with vendors, sponsors, industry leaders and poker run participants sure to bring another year of eye-popping displays spanning more than a mile along the city’s McCulloch Blvd. With the poker run under control, Nichols is excited to report permits have been successfully obtained, securing the newly designed shootout course located off of the Site 6 launch ramp (click maps to enlarge).

Nichols and his team have worked diligently to acquire rights to this portion of the lake that is sheltered from both boat wakes and crosswinds, which have plagued the former course located on Thompson Bay.

The Shootout portion of the Desert Storm Poker Run will offer a new course this April. With the Desert Storm Poker Run on Arizona’s picturesque…

With a fleet of what could be 200 boats in 2012, the poker run is the showpiece event of Desert Storm.

There’s plenty of news coming out of the Lake Racer LLC offices, where Jim Nichols—event co-founder and organizer of the Desert Storm Poker Run—is working hard on this year’s high-performance boating extravaganza slated for April 21-30. That’s right, a full ten days of all the high-performance boating fun, and probably a little more, you can handle.

This year, Nichols and his team including title sponsor Bob Teague of Teague Custom Marine opted to hold the poker run to coincide with the the Lake Havasu Boat Show. Scheduled for April 21-23, the event will showcase new boats and product from vendors from across the nation.