Unless you spent the weekend rasslin’ gators, curing diseases or base jumping with one of those bat suits you weren’t anything nearly half as extreme as playing Cowboy Poker.

More intense than Hold’em and crazier than Badugi, Cowboy Poker requires balls, tenacity and… bulls.

Featured at Rodeos across North America, Cowboy Poker is pretty beautiful in its simplicity: a few cowboys (see: totall bad asses) sit in some chairs around a poker table. A bull is then released down the chute to charge at the table. Last player sitting wins. And, yeah, the bull seems to hate their flush draws more than a red cape.

This past weekend at the Canadian Finals Rodeo in Edmonton, Will Evans took down his third straight Cowboy Poker title and $500 in the process.

In truly awesome Canadian form, Evans compared the bull’s force to being about:

“tens times harder than a real hard bodycheck in hockey.”

I suppose that was approximated, but still. Holy @&$*.

The next time I sit down to an ‘intense’ SnG or cash game, I’ll think of Will Evans and realize onlinePLAYahh82930 isn’t nearly as intimidating as a bull.

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