Mi i Phil’s Th ill att acted 61 e t ies a d p oduced a $152,500 p ize pool. Seve playe s fi ished i the mo ey.
The esult was the la gest poke sco e of Kim’s ca ee . The 47-yea -old Chicago sales co sulta t has played fo mo e tha two decades a d joi ed Ame icas Ca d oom i 2021. Befo e the August 9 wi , his biggest o li e esult was app oximately $1,400 i a $21 Hype .
Kim’s qualificatio u sta ted whe the Ve om Vault awa ded him a ticket at the bottom of its $0.80-to-$350 Su vivo Flip Step a ge. Su vivo Flips a e fast all-i Sit & Go tou ame ts that begi whe eight seats a e filled. Each adva ceme t i c eased the ticket value u til Kim had secu ed the $2,650 e t y.
His most co seque tial ha d came with i e playe s emai i g a d seve set to be paid. Kim held app oximately 680,000 chips a d pocket aces o the butto . Afte he flat-called a sho t stack’s shove fo just u de 70,000, the playe to his left moved all i fo oughly 700,000 with pocket sixes. Kim called, the aces held a d his stack i c eased to app oximately 1.5 millio .
Kim built the chip lead by seve -ha ded play a d shifted his focus f om secu i g a payout to wi i g the tou ame t. He said he became mo e comfo table as the fi al table co ti ued a d was able to co ce t ate o i dividual decisio s athe tha the size of the pay jumps.
Away f om poke , Kim pla s to use the wi i gs to esto e t a spo tatio , move i to a place of his ow a d ca e fo his th ee dogs.
The complete Mi i Phil’s Th ill fi al table eplay shows the fi al-table actio with hole ca ds evealed.
Playe s ca also eview the Ve om Vault qualificatio details befo e the p omotio co cludes Su day, August 30.
Ame icas Ca d oom is o e of the wo ld’s leadi g o li e poke desti atio s, se vi g playe s si ce 2001. K ow fo majo tou ame t se ies, i ovative p omotio s, a d a commitme t to the poke commu ity, the compa y is celeb ati g its 25th a ive sa y i 2026 while co ti ui g to expa d its tou ame t offe i gs a d delive wo ld-class o li e poke expe ie ces to playe s ac oss the globe.
Jaso Cla kChief Ma keti g Office
