Before you critisize !

Before you start labeling games as "donkamonts" , and posting in the bad beat section, check out this hand from the WSOP main event with around 120 people left in.

Cantu Wins the Battle of the Brandons

Brandon Cantu is running hot. Really hot. He opened a pot from the cutoff with a raise to 55,000. Brandon Becker reraised to 200,000 from the small blind. Cantu took about five seconds when the action got back to him before shoving all in. Becker insta-called all in for less.

Cantu:
Becker:

Caught with his hand in the cookie jar, it turned out that Cantu wasn't in the absolute worst shape. In fact, after the flop came down , he was sitting pretty. The turn gave Becker some life, but he was eliminated with the blank on the river.

Cantu now has over 3.2 million in chips.

I bet he learned poker by playing full tilt freerolls

I saw this... then I saw more live updates from this guy. He bluffs so much, or gets in with the worst hand... then comes out on top.

And the asshole is now chip leader with 10.5m

All the live reporting now talks about is the Mrs who's still in, not a word about Matusow the last hour, and he's surely the most dangerous player left in.

I cant read the HH in the OP whats up with that am I missing something?

Sounds like the next Jamie Gold IMO

i hate cantu as much as anyone but:

he opened from steal position in a spot where he might open as much as 75% of his hands. brandon cantu is a very active player. the guy who reraised him was obviously aware of this. BC knows the guy knows and convinced himself that he was just making a play, so he went with his read and was wrong. it's possible that the size of the raiser's 3bet betrayed the strength of his hand, but it's also possible that he'd make the same sized raise on a resteal. the players at the table would probably have a better idea of those conditions than any of us could speculate

i've seen BC butcher some hands (like the one where he knocked out raptor), but at face value, this is not necessarily one of them. he simply made a bad read in a spot where it's actually pretty standard to make a play

also: what the heck is this doing in this forum?

It's a 4bet bluff with a hand that's often live when called, not terrible at all

what's a donkamont btw?

LOL DONKAMONTS

Agreed. Ballsy move and came out lucky on top. I'm sure he wasn't saying how great of a player he is and everyone else sucks like Matisow would have if he had made that play and won.

Ask Hitler.

Based on reads he may have, and knowing that the blind may not give him credit for a hand, I could see reason within his play. 5 8 > AK.

i dont know why people think this is bad?