Brandon Cantu is another professional player that would tell you to support online casinos for USA players by playing at UB. The 29 year old player learned to play poker from his grandpa, and then he played in casinos in Oregon. He currently lives in Las Vegas because he is close to US poker rooms there.

The decision to go pro came in 2006 in Vegas once he won over $750k for 1st place in a WSOP event. Amazingly, that was the first major tournament he ever played! Since then he has continued to do extremely well in casinos for US players. As for his WSOP results, he won a second bracelet in 2009 in Event 48, a PLO tournament, for $228,967. That year he almost won two bracelets. He had to settle for 2nd place and $400k in Event 39, a NLHE tournament. His best Main Event finish was two years ago when he was 20th for $257,334.

Cantu has also done well in the WPT. He has 3 total cashes, and one of them is a win in the Bay 101 Shooting Star championship for a cool $ 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 people he eliminated in that tournament wished he were into online casino gambling for a living instead!

Where live tournaments are concerned, Cantu has almost $3.5 million in cashes. 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. This does not mean that he doesn't play online at all, however. He went for the obvious choice of 'brandoncantu' for his UB screen name, and he can be found playing tournaments and high stakes cash 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. Instead, make an account at UB and start practicing your tournament game!