Byron Wolford, also known as Cowboy Wolford, is a  professional poker player  born in Tyler, Texas, on 14 September 1930 and he died on 13 May 2003. Besides being a poker professional Wolford was a rodeo professional. He has a WSOP bracelet and ended in second place in the main event of the WSOP 1984. You can also be a poker professional to play  freeroll poker  registering in an online poker room.

Byron started his rodeo career when he was 6 years old and he learnt along with his father who was an expert horse trainer. When he was 15 years old he had already won three times the Calgary Stampede, and he was the National Canadian Champion. As to poker, Wolford won money in several  WSOP  events including a main event.

His greatest achievement was his second place in the main event of the  World Series of Poker  in 1984, where he won $264,000. As years went by Wolford reached several final tables in which he ended in second place. Finally, he won his first bracelet in 1991 in the $5,000 Limit Texas Hold'em where he beat Erik Seidel.

His winnings in  live poker tournaments  reached over the one million dollars, from which $737,410 came from the World Series of Poker. Wolfram also won the $10,000 No Limit Deuce-to-Seven Draw event of the Super Bowl of Poker.

The  poker player  and rodeo champion marked a world record in rodeo at the Madison Square Garden in 1950. He is also the author of the book Cowboys, Gamblers & Hustlers: The True Adventures of a Rodeo Champion & Poker Legend.