Phill "Grindation" Mcallister won the PokerStars Big $162 for almost $26,000 and cashed for over $167,000 in a heads-up chop in the Sunday Million in May 2012. In May 2014, he took second place in SCOOP Event #1 - High for over $232,000. The same month, he took fifth place in the PokerStars SCOOP Main Event - High for almost $351,000. On the first weekend of 2015, Grindation finished 7th in the Sunday Million and walked away with $30,000 from a field of over 7,600 entrants. In August of that year, Grindation took third in the Sunday Warm-Up after a three-way deal and earned $52,000.