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07-12-2008 16:24 UTC-8

Cantu Wins the Battle of the Brandons

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Brandon Becker might be thinking "Wait -- he has 8-5 offsuit...?"

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 -- about 1.1 million.

Cantu: {8-Diamonds}

{8-Diamonds}

{5-Hearts}

Becker:

{A-Clubs}

{K-Diamonds}

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 {8-Hearts}

{8-Hearts}

{5-Diamonds}

{7-Spades}

, he was sitting pretty. The {A-Hearts}

{A-Hearts}

turn gave Becker some life, but he was eliminated with the {3-Diamonds}

{3-Diamonds}

blank on the river.

Cantu now has over 3.2 million in chips.