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This is what is awesome about poker. At any time you can sit down with the best in the world and play. In the last year I have gotten to play with many of the top pros, and I feel that it has definitely improved my game each time.

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I am just curious but i am sure someone at some time has gone broke and sold one of their braclets. Anyone know what someone has paid for one that they didnt win? personally I wouldnt pay any more then what i could melt it down and get for it. I Think its something that should be earned not bought.
I've never read an account of anyone selling their bracelet, but I would imagine some have been sold (just like Super Bowl/World Series rings). Personally, I wouldn't pay $$$ for a WSOP bracelet, what would you do with it? "No Grandma, I didn't actually win that playing poker, I bought it off some poor guy who was down on his luck and needed bus fare home."What a loser you would feel like...
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Chris Mccormack was 3 to my left at the WSOP.He's got a profile on poker pages. he got 10th at the Nl Holdem Shoot Out at the Wsop. Went out with AA against 77 when he was 2nd in chips and the guy that busted him was 1st.

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Actually, Amarillo Slim has been in town for a few weeks now and does come to the poker room pretty frequently. Cherokee is 21 and over but Creek is only 18 for now. They have 30 tables at Cherokee and it is a nice facility. Didn't know Johnny Hale was in town but I saw Slim last Saturday morning. Funny thing about the big guys though.... they don't tip when they win a pot.

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He hasn't won any events, just a really old guy who likes poker, and may be a bit senile. If I find the link to the video I'll put it up.
Johnny knocked me out of a NLH tournament at the Orleans my very first time playing in a casino. He sat down wearing full cowboy formalwear: a green suit with matching hat and bollo tie. My first thought was "is this guy a joke?" He wasn't. He seemed like a really nice old guy. I did get the impression that a touch of senility was starting to creep in (at least he's old, what's my excuse), but he was still more than capable of spanking a rookie out of a tournament.If he's playing $40 buy-ins at the Orleans, he ain't no Howard Lederer. But I'd guess that poker is still how he makes his living. And I learned at least one valuable lesson from him - in Vegas, the guy who looks like he must be joking... probably isn't joking.
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A couple decembers ago there was a big tourny going on at the bellagio (5 diamond I think?) And they had to put lots of tourny table outside the poker room (of course pretty common at that point in poker's explosion), however they put a few too many. So there were a couple of ring games out there and I got sent out to one.The guy running the room was not keeping up with the open seats at our table since he couldn't see them and he was swamped anyway, so pros came to waste time before an event, or even at breaks. They sat down and played between 10 and fifteen minutes, the dealers didn't care and the floorpeople rarely checked on the table so the six or seven of us playing didn't mind since it was cool to play with some pros.So these are the ones that sat for a time, Leibert, Rocks and Rings himself Esfanadiari, Ledderer, Duke, Devilfish, and Bloch, (i am forgetting one or two others, its been a while) I showed a bluff to devilfish and he got a chuckle out of it since i think my bluff had his bluff beat, but didn't play to many pots with the others.As a side note maybe someone knows this, when a lady came around (that helped run the poker room) she laughed at ledderer sitting at the table (it was 10/20) since he was 'slumming it' as she walked away I joked with him about taking abuse from her and he said it was his wife. To this day I don't know if he was joking or not. Anyone know if his wife works at the bellagio?

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Anyone know if his wife works at the bellagio?
Don't know if she works there, but they showed her on TV the other day (I think it was the Poker Superstars Invitational on Sportsnet - series 2 round 1). Looked like she had a great personality. If this was some smoking hot babe razzing him, it wasn't his wife. If it was a heavier blonde woman, then maybe.
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Johnny Hale has a bracelet from the wsop. It is a bracelet he received for winning the best overall player that year(not sure what year he won it). They have since quit giving out bracelets for this award. In fact, I think there may not be another bracelet out there like his.

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the only time I ever played with a pro was in april i was staying at the bellagio and the wpt event was going on so most of the top pros would play cash games either before or after the tournys. David Williams played at the 5 -10 nl game with me and took a huge (huge for me prob not for him lol) pot off me. he flopped top set while i flopped the nut flush. We got all the money in and the board paired on the river!

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Anyone know if his wife works at the bellagio?
Don't know if she works there, but they showed her on TV the other day (I think it was the Poker Superstars Invitational on Sportsnet - series 2 round 1). Looked like she had a great personality. If this was some smoking hot babe razzing him, it wasn't his wife. If it was a heavier blonde woman, then maybe.
Prob was her then. lol
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I sat across the table from Marcel Luske in the EPT event at London's Victoria Casino.I knocked Noah Boeken out of a single table satellite on stars, and knocked Tiffany Williamson (15th place WSOP) out of the final table of a tournament at London's Gutshot Cardroom.

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Anyone know if his wife works at the bellagio?
Don't know if she works there, but they showed her on TV the other day (I think it was the Poker Superstars Invitational on Sportsnet - series 2 round 1). Looked like she had a great personality. If this was some smoking hot babe razzing him, it wasn't his wife. If it was a heavier blonde woman, then maybe.
Prob was her then. lol
Howard's wife is the high limit brush (floor person) at the Bellagio.And Oklahoma Johnny is very well known on the circuit. He is the host of every seniors event that takes place at any tournament including the world series. If you look at literature from tourney series' at Foxwoods, WSOP, Legends, Tunica, and others it is always the "Oklahoma Johnny Hale seniors no-limit tournament". The guy is a total hoot and a ton of fun.
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Last time I was in Tunica John Daily sat at the 20/40 table I was on. I saw him go through about 3k in 2hrs. I know he's not a poker pro but it was cool to meet him, he's a great american.
No line will make me laugh harder all day. Thanks man.
hahaha, agreed
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Here is some info that he sent me not long ago for those interested in playing poker in the Tulsa area. "Oklahoma" Johnny Hale has signed a long term contract with the CNE Cherokee Nations Enterprises in Catoosa, Oklahoma (aka Cherokee Casino, the casino with the state's largest poker room.) He and his wife have great plans to expand poker in the state of Oklahoma. They plan on making there casino his poker home by hosting his signature event "The Oklahoma Johnny Hale Open Poker Tournament" in March/April of 2006. More than likely, this will be picked by the World Poker Tour featuring a 10,000 buy in with over million dollars awarded as the top prize. There will also be a golf tournament and an Oklahoma Gin Rummy Tournament featured during the same week. There will be satellites all over for as little as $20 for a seat in the OK-J Open. Johnny is also joining with CNE to create the Oklahoma Poker Players Hall of Fame and will host "The Oklahoma Poker Players Hall of Fame No Limit Poker Tournament" and the winner of that tournament each year will be inducted into the OK Poker Players Hall of Fame. Part of the event will be for seniors "The Seniors" XIV World Championship of Poker for all of those players that were born on or before--April 1957. He is also inviting everyone to his 78th birthday poker party at the CNE poker room, Sept 28 - Oct 2nd. There will be a series of satellites for the OK-J Poker Open and OK-J birthday poker tournament on Friday the 30th. Poker cake and green money will be served. http://www.ok-j.com will be updated in the coming weeks with more info about these tournaments.Check out his daughter: http://www.oksarah.com/more info: http://groups.myspace.com/oklahomapoker

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