Cannon competed for decades and gained notoriety among some of the poker legends of the era.
[2] Jack Binion, host of the World Series of Poker, invited the best seven poker players in the United States to his Binion's Horseshoe casino in Las Vegas, Nevada to decide who was the best poker player in America.
The other six players invited to the 1970 Main Event were all legends of the game that already had or would go on to have great poker careers.
[4] He would have one more notable finish in his tournament career after the 1970 Main Event.
He finished in ninth place in the 1982 WSOP Main Event, which was won by poker professional Jack Straus.