A total of 242 players turned out for the $5,000 Main Event of the Wynn Classic and when the smoke cleared, poker pro Brandon Cantu stood tall above the field for $363,000. He defeated poker veteran Jared Jaffee heads-up. The win resulted in 1,152 CardPlayer Player of the Year points for the young gun, who explained that despite the major victory, his prospects of winning the annual award were not helped tremendously: “I thought I was going to get more than 1,100 points. It didn’t do that much to help me. For some reason, it doesn’t have the feel as it would if you won a WPT event or a bracelet, but it feels great financially.” Cantu sits in 40th in CardPlayer’s Player of the Year race.
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Poker Pro Brandon Cantu Wins Wynn Classic Main Event
