Seat 8: Kyle Julius, 25, Chicago, Illinois, USA -- 6,450,000
The 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event final table is guaranteed to be a career-high live score for Illinois native Kyle Julius, but the poker pro has plenty of experience on his side, not to mention a big stack, heading into today’s action.
Julius, who made a name for himself online under the screenname “KJulius10”, has over $1 million in winnings on PokerStars, including a win in the Sunday 500 in January of 2011 worth around $87,000. ?His previous best live score was a third-place finish in a 2010 Venetian Deep Stack event worth $65,861. ?He also made a deep run at last month’s World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at Bellagio, finishing in 12th.
Julius first learned to play poker when his older brother, Ryan, 27, came home from his freshman year of college and told the younger Julius he should take up the game. ?Little brother listened to his big brother and, after a brief stint studying at Northern Kentucky University, Kyle started playing poker full time. Kyle says Ryan, who was playing in the PCA $25,000 High Roller today, is the better player of the two, but both are well known in online poker circles as tough competitors.
Bio courtesy of PokerStars.