ACR Team Online Pro Evan 'Gripsed' Jarvis took the booth on Saturday night for the final bubble of Phil's Thrill, ACR Poker's highest-stakes online tournament, with all cards up replayer coverage and live pro commentary on the room's biggest weekly broadcast.
Phil's Thrill is the $10,300 buy-in headline event named after ACR founder and Team Pro Phil Nagy. The May running drew a field that built a $700,000 prize pool, paying nine spots and putting more than $170,000 on the top line. ACR went live as the field bubbled, putting Gripsed on the call with the replayer feed so viewers could see every hole card and follow the chip-count action in real time.
Why this matters for ACR's content stack
ACR has spent the last 18 months rebuilding its content arm around player-led broadcasts rather than third-party syndication. Phil's Thrill bubble streams are the centerpiece - they take the room's flagship tournament and wrap it in pro analysis, replayer mechanics, and a Twitch-native production loop. Gripsed is the obvious pick to anchor that. He runs his own long-form strategy YouTube channel, has the credentials to call elite poker, and signed on as a Team Online Pro on a content-first deal earlier this year.
The Phil's Thrill numbers
The structure paid $177,800 for first, $133,000 for second, $105,000 for third, and stepped down to $20,300 for ninth. The bubble session went out at 8 PM Eastern. ACR routed traffic to the broadcast directly from its main Twitter feed, which is the room's preferred path for time-sensitive content drops over a static schedule.
What to watch from ACR next
Online Super Series is still running through May 25, and the $20M guarantee is anchoring most of ACR's weekend traffic. Expect more replayer-led broadcasts from the OSS Main Event final stages, with Gripsed and Chris Moneymaker as the rotating anchors when the room runs its own production.
