Baja Okie Poker… or Blarney?
Oklahoma Johnny Hale
Carol, we have been invited to return to Tulsa to host a “The Seniors” World Championship of Poker tournament at the Cherokee Indian Tribe’s new poker room this year. The Cherokee Nations Enterprises (CNE) will be in operation soon. This will be the Foxwoods of Oklahoma.
All the gang in Oklahoma have been e-mailing and calling me about this new CNE poker room and today I just got this e-mail from Dale Tulsa and he wants to know a little bit about the upcoming tournament, and also how to play BAJA OKLAHOMA poker?
He said he read about the poker game in one of my columns-”Back in the Saddle Again” in the newspaper Poker Player-and that he had been talking with the poker players there in Tulsa and some of them have never heard of Baja Okie poker. Yes, honey you are right I got myself in a little bit of trouble this time-You told me it would happen to me if I kept on telling all those tales about poker and things and not always sticking to just the facts.
Every since we were in Ireland a couple of years ago, I have noticed that I just seem to imagine things sometimes. When I climbed up those little narrow rock stairs to the top ramparts of Blarney castle in Blarney, Ireland and got down on my back and leaned out into space and kissed that Blarney Stone!!
It kind of changed me, and gave me a license to change or enlarge a story now and then. But Carol, I always tell the folks that I only give them my Oklahoma Guarantee that 97% of what tell them is true. And that the other 3 % may have a little bit of Blarney in it.
Well, there is some fact and some Blarney in the Baja Oklahoma poker story. Now, Carol, I will lay you and the folks 8 to 5 that you or they cannot pick out the 3% that may be Blarney and the 97% that is fact.
First everyone knows that Northern Mexico is called BAJA California, and I have been told that the only thing that keeps Texas from falling into the Gulf of Mexico is because Oklahoma is holding on to it!
In the early 1950’s Dee Louis and Cecil Wilcox (from my home game inTulas) took the game of BAJA OKIE Poker to Las Vegas!
Two of the players from that home poker game in Tulsa where I played poker were to become future WSOP world champions. E-mail me and I may tell you who they were (are)!
I know I talk slow and write long-so folks, come on back next time and I will finish this story about BAJA OKLAHOMA POKER.
Until next time, remember to STAY LUCKY!!!
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