We are checked in at the Warrick Hotel. The Warrick is just around the corner from the world famous AVIATION CLUB on the Champs Elysee here in Paris, France.
They play a lot of pot limit poker here in Europe, and they still smoke a lot, but we are the guest of Bruno Futossi, who is the poker Guru here in Paris.
Bruno has been a wonderful host and I know that Carol and my girls are enjoying all of the fancy French cuisine in the Aviation Club's five star restaurant-I will make it until I can return home for some good old Okie food.
"The European Seniors" No Limit Poker Tournament (Which I created and have been hosting at the Aviation Club for the past five years) sure is fun to play and host. I am so happy that Bruno has agreed with me that there will be no smoking in the tournament area.
It sure is good that Carol remembered that it would be raining, windy and cold here in Paris, and that she thought to bring my Oklahoma longjohns-they sure feel very good.
Our Oklahoma daughter, Sheri, who came along with her sister, "Oklahoma Sarah," to be with us while we host 'THE EUROPEAN SENIORS' poker tournament here at the Aviation Club, just told me that in Tulsa, Oklahoma, they are suffering with a winter snow storm that is rated to be a once in one hundred year storm, and that the temperature is down to near zero.
We learned how to dress for the winter weather when I was a kid in Oklahoma. We would take some toe sacks and wrap our feet up in them-then take the bailing wire from the bales of hay and wrap the wire around the toe sacks and you could be out all day in the cold and snow and our feet would never even know it was cold.
My wife Carol comes from Pennsylvania and they get a little cold weather and some snow up there but I do not think they ever have the kind of cold wind blow in from the North Pole that we do in the plains of Oklahoma. I remember once a Blue Northern Storm that came down thru Kansas. Let me tell you about an Oklahoma Blue Northern. The sky in the North turns a very bright blue (hence the name of the storm). Then there is a temperature inversion, and the temperature will drop between forty and sixty degrees in less than an hour. Then the North wind will blow like a poker player telling a bad beat story.
There is nothing to stop the north wind from roaring down from the North Pole through Kansas-Except for that four strings of a bar wire fence up there near or about Kansas City, and most of the time those folks up there forget and leave the gate down.
I guess that is why we have so many wonderful poker players and beautiful girls in the great state of Oklahoma-because there is nothing else left to do, except get into bed and pull the covers up over your head. Or put some more logs on the fire and play poker for a few days-Until that fellow up there in Kansas remembers to put the gate back up.
Well, forgive me, I was going to tell you a little bit about my girls-and their shopping and sight-seeing in Paris-Tune in next issue and I will try to tell you about "The European Seniors" no limit poker tournament which was hosted by me on Wednesday the 13 of December while my girls were out doing Paris. Until Next Time, Remember to STAY LUCKY!!
