Aguiar beat Cantu heads-up for the $10k mix-max WSOPE bracelet in controversial fashion. Cantu challenged Aguiar to a match for the difference between 1st and 2nd, Jon accepted, and tonight they're playing at the Aria heads-up for $130k.

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2012/1...-jon-13723.htm

$130,000 Grudge Match



Last month at the World Series of Poker Europe, Brandon Cantu claimed that the WSOP "robbed" him of a bracelet in the €10,000 Mixed Max event, in which he lost heads-up to Jon Aguiar after a controversial decision to delay the match two days. In case you missed it, Cantu unleashed his true feelings to PokerNews' Sarah Grant in an rant interview that circled through the community.

Shortly after losing the heads-up match in Cannes, Cantu proposed that he and Aguiar play a heads-up grudge match for the money difference between first and second place — $130,000. Aguiar quickly accepted, and the match is now on for Wednesday, Nov. 7 at the Aria Poker Room in Las Vegas.

There's certainly no love lost between the two, as evidenced by the nasty table banter during their match in Europe. Things didn't get any friendlier on Thursday when Aguiar posted a picture of his bracelet and some casino chips on Twitter, simply saying to Cantu, "come and get it."

Aguiar said the match will be a "non-title fight," meaning the bracelet will not be up for grabs, but there will certainly be plenty of interested spectators at Aria when this one goes down.

Was just about to post this.

GOOOO FatalError!

Ship it

lol Cantu has everything to lose.

Cantu will no doubt put on the greatest performance in Aria history.

Jon says on Twitter that they're starting with 1.4m in chips each, hour levels beginning at 4-8k.

So stupid of Aguiar to accept that. Stupid ego battle. Just take the cash and the bracelet ffs ...

Ship it Aguiar, hoping for another epic meltdown from that whiney b**ch

So what if Aguilar wins? Does brandon pay him $130k?

no matter who wins, the rest of us lose

this needs more

That's kinda how HU4ROLLZ works.

Why's it stupid if he believes he has an edge, and thus this match is profitable for him?

fk, is Aria streaming this or something? Seems like it'd be great for TV.

This

I almost got convinced not to do this because it's an emotional freeroll for Brandon. This is a pretty stupid format and neither of us could reasonably win more than 55% of the time but I just think it's all pretty funny to be honest.

And FWIW I don't even know how I could have a grudge here, it's not like I could have actually been offended by that video or twitter rant

good podcast content tho

So? What did Aguiar gain by this?

Think I'm rooting for them both to lose.

So whoever wins, I'll be sick.

it's too bad this is live. If I thought I had an edge on my opponent, I'd wanna get in the highest number of hands of possible as quick as possible before the match has to end. Go FatalError!

5% * 130k = not bad for a few hrs work if someone has that edge

Cantu claimed he was owning him and that the extra time would give Aguiar a chance to talk to other pros who would help him beat Cantu.

NVG logic

Hope cantu loses in the most annoying fashion possible so he throws another tantrum