Brandon Cantu
Brandon Cantu is another professional player that would tell you to download free poker from UB. Cantu was born in 1981 in Washington, and after his grandfather taught him poker, he played in Oregon casinos. It makes sense that he now lives in 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! Since then he has continued to do extremely well in US poker rooms. Regarding WSOP, he won a PLO event in 2009 for almost $230k and his second bracelet. 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 just over $250k.
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 tournament wished he were a professional flash Texas Holdem player 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 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. This does not mean that he doesn’t play online at all, however. He’s known as BRANDONCANTU on UB, and he plays tournaments and a bit of high stakes cash.
If you want to become good at poker, Cantu believes that you must play an aggressive style. It makes sense that he’s a tournament 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!
