2. I have been honored by the great state of Oklahoma.  This is a very select group including the
3. very famous like Will Rogers, Indian Chief Sequoia, and many past Senators & Governors.
   
   This certificate was awarded to Oklahoma Johnny during his 80th Birthday Party
4. held at the Venetian on September 30, 2007.  It hangs in the Rotunda
5. of the State Capital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
   
   
   
   
   
    

(OK-J with a few of his friends at the 2005 "The Seniors" @ the World Series of Poker)

About "Oklahoma Johnny" Hale
 

Take it from a gambler who's been playing high-stakes poker in Las Vegas for more than three decades - not all the shows are on stage.  The bad boys, the better boys, the brash, the brave and the brilliant - all have had their debuts and debacles on the neon stage of Sin City playing their roles of hero and villain with Žlan, enjoying ecstasy of victory and suffering the agony of defeat.  "Oklahoma Johnny" Hale has played with them all, beaten most of them and lost to a few who got    lucky enough to pile up their chips faster than he did.

In OK-J's best selling book about  his life and times    as a Gentleman Gambler, Johnny takes you with him on his odyssey from poor country boy to the battlefields of Korea to unprecedented success in the construction business to near bankruptcy to gambling in Las Vegas and playing the World Series of Poker.

Travel with Johnny from the expensive home games around Tulsa in the '60s to the fast-playing poker tables in the glitzy casinos of Vegas and get the inside scoop on how the cheats beat the suckers and the casinos, how card sharps fleece the innocent, and how smart gamblers can get the best of it by following his sage advice.

"Oklahoma Johnny" Hale tells you about the $2 million pot that was played at the Aladdin, the hijack that came down in a Tulsa card room, the scams that were pulled on unsuspecting junketeers, and the famous gamblers he has gone to war with on the chip-laden battlefields of $1 million poker tournaments.

Relive the life and times of a Gentleman Gambler with the world-class player who's been there, done that - "Oklahoma Johnny" Hale, the Elder Statesman of Poker and the creator of the Seniors World Championship of Poker.

For more information about "Oklahoma Johnny" Hale, his book titled "The Life and Times of a....Gentleman Gambler", is available for the pre-publication price $20.00 including s&h.  Every purchase will come to you personally autographed by "Ok-J " himself.

To order your copy of The Gentleman Gambler, please visit Oklahoma Johnny's Poker Emporium

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