Chris Russell has taken the top prize in the largest event ever held on Cherokee soil, after defeating a field of 2,937 entrants in a World Series of Poker Circuit side event.

If the re-entry rule is one thing it’s certainly controversial. It divides opinion. You either love it, or you hate it. I don’t know if Chris Russell is a fan, but I do know that he only had enough money to do it the old fashioned way. He only had one bullet. That’s all he needed.

The tale of Russell’s victory, in Event #4: $365 No-Limit Hold’em Re-Entry at the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) in Harrah’s Cherokee, North Carolina, will not feel out of place next to a campfire and a ton of s’mores.

In a last minute moment of intuition, Russell jumped into his car, and drove from Tennessee to Cherokee, with the aim of firing a single bullet in the $365 buy-in event. After the first day he had turned his starting stack into 100,000 chips. He spent the night sleeping in the back of that car. Two days later he was driving back home with $125,559 in his duffel bag.