In Search Of
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 - Gene Bromberg
One of the challenges of covering massive poker tournaments like today’s $1,500 No-Limit event is…finding out where the hell everyone is. As I walked the floors of the Amazon, Brasilia and Miranda Rooms earlier today I was on the lookout for Team UB players and anyone wearing our familiar black-and-gold logo. I found Tiffany Michelle and Liv Boeree (admittedly they’re easier to spot than most) but I saw when I saw a tweet from Brandon Cantu that said he had around 58,000 in chips. And as the highest count on the PokerNews page was around 31,000 it was quite possible that Brandon was the chip leader of the tournament.
So now all I had to do was track him down. Not so easy a task, as the $1,500 is still spread amongst three rooms. And when you’re walking up and down the aisles scanning nine faces in a nanosecond before turning your head and doing the same to the table across the way, you could walk past your own mother without it registering. But fortunately Brandon wasn’t too hard to pick out, not with what’s an impressive chip fortress sitting before him:
Still a long, long, long way to go, but building a big stack early on gives you a bludgeon to use against your opponents from the start. And that’s especially true for a super-aggressive player like Brandon. The other players at Cantu’s table might be in for a long night.
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