The largest score of the September 19th weekend for a PocketFives member went to Kyle KJulius10Julius (pictured), who walked away with $163,000 from the Full Tilt Poker $1 Million Guaranteeafter a four-way chop. Julius actually cashed for more than the winner of the event, PokerStars player justgobroke, and shot up 14 spots to #31 worldwide in the PocketFives.com Poker Player Rankings. Accordingly, he holds the seventh best PLB Score in the land at over 7,600 and sat down with PocketFives.com to recap his latest milestone.

The last time we talked to Julius was one month ago, when he won a Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) $322 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max with Rebuys event for $159,000 following a three-way deal. Little did we know that one month later, he’d turn in a payday that would eclipse that mark. Julius told PocketFives.com, “It feels great. I went from being down on Full Tilt and not being able to win anything to winning and chopping two of the biggest tournaments they have on the site. It hasn’t sunk in yet, but it’s definitely something I’m very proud of.”

The Full Tilt $1 Million Guarantee saw a four-way chop that also featured fellow PocketFives.com members dwf1029and BIGBALLZ. On the rationale for the chop after a long day and evening of online poker, Julius explained, “I had a pretty big chip advantage, so figured a chip chop would be fair. The structure is pretty awful in this tournament. If I lose two coin flips, I’m busto.” A bounty of $27,000 was put up for grabs for the winner as the foursome played on.

On the final table bubble, Julius doubled up an opponent despite holding A-K against K-3: “I was very short after that and didn’t get down about it. I just kept taking the right spots and things worked out for me.” Since the beginning of August, Julius has racked up over $500,000 in earnings from tournaments that count for the Rankings. He’s ascended to #6 in the United States and owns the #1 spot for the state of Illinois.

You’ll remember that Julius’ brother is also a member of the PocketFives.com community. Ryan RJules12 Julius is ranked 20th in the Land of Lincoln and immediately congratulated his sibling on yet another mind-boggling score. Kyle noted, “I got a text from him telling me how sick I am and that it was well deserved again.” Is there any sibling rivalry? “I would assume he’s nothing but happy for me. He has been deep in a lot of big tournaments lately and gotten very unlucky. It’s just a matter of time for him to be in the same spot as I am.”

Ryan Julius final tabled the Full Tilt $1K Monday in June for $36,000 and took down the PokerStars $100 Cubed at the end of April for $22,000. Two weeks ago, he bested the field in the Nightly Hundred Grand for another $19,000 and sits at #380 worldwide in the Rankings.

Kyle Julius explained that his game is in tip-top shape, at least for the moment: “I feel like my poker game is at its highest point right now, not just because I have had success, but because I feel like I have matured a lot and realized what it takes to win a tournament. I’ve always been able to get deep, but couldn’t close. Now, I feel comfortable in all phases of a tournament.”

How do you close out tournaments? How can you amass a half-million dollars in just two short months? How do you win a Triple Crown like Julius has? He explained his mentality in the biggest online poker events: “I don’t force the issue. You can’t win a tournament with 100 people left or even 10 left. There’s no reason to try to win huge pots and be a hero all the time.”

Still growing is the live portion of his game. He took third in a $2,000 No Limit Hold’em event during the Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza in June for $65,000. In addition, Julius made a deep run in a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament during the 2010 World Series of Poker and cashed for $27,000. We caught up with him at the Borgata (pictured) at the World Poker Tour stop and he admitted, “I want to travel and play live. I feel like the live scene is where the big money is and where a good player has a much bigger edge.”

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