Cantu Wins at the Wynn

Brandon Cantu took down the Wynn Classic championship event this week, banking $363,844 in the process.

The $5,000+160 event drew a field of 262 players creating a total prize pool of $1,173,700 and a final table that included World Poker Tour final tablists Jarred Jaffe, Odie Dardon and perhaps the hottest player in poker right now, Thomas Marchese.

Since winning the inaugural PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour Las Vegas event last month, Marchese went on to cash deep at the WPT's Bay 101 Shooting Star, the very same event Cantu won in 2008.

However, Marchese would make no better than fourth in Las Vegas this week and it was 2010 WPT Southern Poker Championship fourth place finisher Jaffee left to take on Cantu on heads-up.

Jaffe was forced to take $246,477 for second as Cantu booked his first major win since grabbing his second World Series of Poker bracelet in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha 8 event this past summer.

Cantu also made another final table at the 2009 WSOP and after this week's win, the Team UB pro has amassed more than $3.6 million in online and live tournament earnings.