Brandon Cantu
Brandon Cantu is another professional player that would suggest that you support online casinos for USA players by playing at UB.com. After Cantu learned to play poker in Washington from his grandfather, he played in casinos in Oregon. It makes sense that he now lives in Vegas since he is close to US poker rooms 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 casinos for US players. Where WSOP is concerned, he won a second bracelet in 2009 in Event 48, a PLO tournament, for $228,967. That same year he placed second in Event 39 for $403,951. His best showing in the Main Event was two years ago when he was 20th for $257,334.
He also has three cashes in the World Poker Tour including his first WPT title in the Bay 101 Shooting Star championship for $1 million. In that tournament he also busted 6 bounty players good for $5k a piece! As such, he got the nickname “The Bounty Hunter”. It wouldn’t surprise me if the six pros he took out of that event wished he were into online casino gambling for a living instead!
Cantu has cashed for over $3.4 million in live tournaments. He’s on Team UB, though, so you’d think that he must sometimes play poker in online casino USA sites. Unlike a lot of the other players I’ve written about in my blog, he actually doesn’t spend that much time playing on sites where you can download free poker as he’s always been primarily a live player. When he does play, though, it’s obviously mostly on UB. He’s known as BRANDONCANTU on UB, and he plays tournaments and sometimes high stakes ring games.
If you asked Cantu how you can see better tournaments results, he would tell you to be more aggressive. If you aspire to challenge him in the WSOP one day, you definitely shouldn’t download roulette. It would be a way better use of your time to login to UB and play some tournaments!
