WSOP Main Event Finalist in 2006 makes Sitcom about his Life

Certainly not the first time ever that a poker player is showing off their other talents in certain areas, and this time it is on a promising comedy show related to poker and acting.

Where poker players go next after their gig in poker is just as interesting as where they've come from.

Douglas Kim was once named the youngest player ever to have reached a World Series Poker Main Event final table in 2006. Under his online moniker ‘technologic', Doug came 7th in the Main Event (it was Jamie Gold who won it), taking home $2,391,520.

After that, Doug wasn't too active in the live tourneys until in 2011 he bubbled the final table of the WPT Season X Borgata Poker Open, earning $148,848 as he got 7th place. Overall, he has $2.5 million in live tournament career earnings.

Douglas Kim, who is of Korean descent, was born in Yonkers, New York on November 10, 1983. It was two years after his WSOP Main Event escapade that he enrolled in a two-year acting program at the William Esper studio in his home state. He moved to Los Angeles after he graduated, where he is living to this day.

In 2016, Doug worked on a supernatural mystery ‘Room 731' movie as a production coordinator, which lasted only 16 minutes but got a nice 7.9 rating on IMDB.

He also tested the waters of the music industry, releasing a parody of the Jay-Z song ‘Young Forever', which is entitled ‘Forever Hyung'. 

Now Doug has a TV sitcom, a semi-autobiographical comedy called Just Doug.

While he still plays poker, his real dream is actually acting, and he is starring in his own sitcom about his life which he himself has written. ‘Just Doug' appears to be a curb-your-enthusiasm style of comedy which shows scenarios based on real life experiences. Of course, the show stars Doug, playing himself, deciding after his win at the Main Event and move to LA to make his dream of being an actor come true.

Doug is hoping for the show to get picked up by a major TV station, and should that happen, he told his followers on the 2+2 forum that he will be hoping to explore the subject of poker in more depth.

You can check out the show on its Facebook Page presence ‘Just Doug' 

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