One more interview with a bracelet winner. This time Brandon Cantu speaks up to Poker News Daily, I will let you read it literally so you get his tone which sounds pretty confident to me, hopefully poker will someday be this easy for the rest of us mortals.

Q1: What is your background in PLO H/L? Have you played a lot of it before?

Brandon Cantu: No I haven’t played that much, but I just let my skills as a poker player help me out with the game. I mean, I know what I’m doing. I’m not blind. I play Omaha H/L, I’m just not the best at it. It just worked.

Q2: Was there a learning curve at all going through the tournament?

Cantu: It’s not that I’m completely new at the game. I know what I am doing. I’ve played it some. I don’t think very many people in that field can say they play PLO H/L all the time. There’s just not that much of it, the game’s not that common.

PND: So you didn’t think there were many people in the field who had an edge on you in PLO H/L specifically?

Cantu: No. I can pick up games really, really easily. Whatever it is, you can make up a game, and I will catch on to it really fast and, again, it isn’t that I haven’t played it at all, just haven’t played it that much.

PND: Leading up to the final table you had a huge chip lead. At what point, if ever, did you think the final table or the bracelet was in the bag for you?

Cantu: Never. I trailed most of the final table. From five people down I was last in chips. I guess maybe I started to have a chance once I got the chip lead over Lee Watkinson.

PND: Was Watkinson the person you were most dreading playing heads-up?

Cantu: No, I like Lee, I actually wanted to play Lee heads-up. Lee’s a great guy and I wanted to play Lee. He’s competitive, a named pro and it was a good time.

PND: The Main Event is just around the corner. You had a really impressive deep run last year. Are you doing anything to plan or prepare for this year’s event?

Cantu: No planning for it. I don’t know what I’m going to do. One day I’ll just wake up and go play. I can’t really put too much thought into it.

PND: Well, hopefully you’ll make it as far again this year as you did last year.

Cantu: I know, hopefully.

Source: Poker News Daily