Brandon Cantu added a World Poker Tour title to his World Series of Poker bracelet with victory in the Bay 101 Shooting Star event.

The Washington state native, now based in Las Vegas, won a cool million dollars for his efforts based on an aggressive approach during the eight hour final table.

Cantu, whose biggest win to date was two years ago at the WSOP $1500 no limit holdem tournament, held a commanding chip lead entering the final table.

His stack of 3,323,000 was nearly double that of Mike Baker (1,964,000) with Noah Jefferson (842,000), Jennifer Harman (541.000), Steve Sung (474,000) and John Phan (347,000) following behind.

Phan was always in trouble with his short stack and he had to settle for the $135,000 sixth prize after losing out to a pair of sixes held by Jefferson.

One of the key hands in the final then followed as Cantu's chief rival Baker went out in fifth place after an all or nothing play backfired.

Baker bet heavily pre-flop only for his King and three, with two diamonds on the board, to be greeted by Cantu's pocket rockets and when the chip leader went All-In, his opponent called only for the turn and river to bring no assistance.

That gave Cantu an imposing stack, close to 75% of all the chips in play, building on his run of success the previous day when he won 17 hands in a row.

Jefferson ducked out in fourth place as the river gave Sung trips on sevens denying his rival who went All-In holding Ace, King and had no help from the community cards.

Harman had inflicted one of Cantu's few setbacks with an early double up but the sole woman at the final table would leave next in similiar fashion to Jefferson.

She went in All-In on her short stack after being dealt Ace, King but Cantu called with his pocket nines which became trips on the flop and that was all she wrote for Harman who went home with $330,000.

The head-to-head began with Cantu leading Sung by almost five million chips and our eventual winner was already dreaming about his first success since the Ultimate Poker Challenge $300 buy-in no limit hold'em tournament.

Sung eventually exited when he went All-In on a pair of threes only for Cantu to be holding pocket fours which held up.

Not only did Cantu win $1 million dollars but $40,000 in additional bonuses and after the victory which saw him down 385 rivals, he told pokerlistings: "It's amazing. I don't know what to say. The million dollars is nice. But I wanted it so bad. I've been so close lately in other tournaments. I guess everything came together at the right time.

"I always felt like I had a good shot at it. There was only one minute on the second day where I felt like it wasn't there. But I was never short the whole tournament. I was almost wire to wire, not chip lead, but right there pretty close.

"I just didn't want to make any big errors. I didn't want to give anyone an easy double up. I did kind of at the final table once but it was at a short stage. I don't think I gave anyone like a complete charity double up. I really only made minor errors the whole way.

Cantu confirmed after the victory that he was aimed to land the Player of the Year crown and intends to start competing in European Poker Tour event in a bid to complete the triple crown.

Angus MacKenzie / Eurosport