Brandon Cantu
Posted by Christine Alderson on Monday, July 19, 2010
Brandon Cantu is another professional player that would encourage you to download free poker from the UB site. After Cantu learned to play poker in Washington from his grandfather, he got dealt hands in Oregon casinos. When he went pro, he moved to Vegas because he can easily get to casinos for US players there.
The decision to go pro came four years ago in Vegas after winning a bracelet in Event 2 of the World Series. To make it even more impressive, that win was the first major tournament he’d ever played! It certainly wasn’t his last, though! He has done quite well in US poker rooms. Regarding WSOP, he won his 2nd bracelet and $228,967 in a PLO event. That same year he placed second in Event 39 for $403,951. The highest he ever placed in the ME was in 2008 when he took 20th for $257,334.
Cantu also won $1 million for first place in the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star championship. Because he also earned $30k for busting 6 bounty players, he earned the nickname “The Bounty Hunter”. It wouldn’t surprise me if the six people he busted during that tournament wished he played flash Texas Holdem for a living instead!
Cantu’s live tournament cashes add up to over $3.4 million. He’s on Team UB, though, so you’d think that he must sometimes play in online casinos for USA players. Unlike a lot of the other players I’ve written about in my blog, he actually doesn’t spend that much time playing on money poker sites as he’s always been primarily a live player. As you'd expect, though, being a UB rep means that he has to play at least a bit online. He’s known as BRANDONCANTU on UB, and he can be found playing tournaments and high stakes cash games.
Part of the reason for Cantu’s success in tournament poker is that he is a very aggressive player. If you aspire to challenge him in the WSOP one day, you definitely shouldn’t download free casino games. It would be a way better use of your time to login to UB and play some tournaments!
The decision to go pro came four years ago in Vegas after winning a bracelet in Event 2 of the World Series. To make it even more impressive, that win was the first major tournament he’d ever played! It certainly wasn’t his last, though! He has done quite well in US poker rooms. Regarding WSOP, he won his 2nd bracelet and $228,967 in a PLO event. That same year he placed second in Event 39 for $403,951. The highest he ever placed in the ME was in 2008 when he took 20th for $257,334.
Cantu also won $1 million for first place in the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star championship. Because he also earned $30k for busting 6 bounty players, he earned the nickname “The Bounty Hunter”. It wouldn’t surprise me if the six people he busted during that tournament wished he played flash Texas Holdem for a living instead!
Cantu’s live tournament cashes add up to over $3.4 million. He’s on Team UB, though, so you’d think that he must sometimes play in online casinos for USA players. Unlike a lot of the other players I’ve written about in my blog, he actually doesn’t spend that much time playing on money poker sites as he’s always been primarily a live player. As you'd expect, though, being a UB rep means that he has to play at least a bit online. He’s known as BRANDONCANTU on UB, and he can be found playing tournaments and high stakes cash games.
Part of the reason for Cantu’s success in tournament poker is that he is a very aggressive player. If you aspire to challenge him in the WSOP one day, you definitely shouldn’t download free casino games. It would be a way better use of your time to login to UB and play some tournaments!
