High Stakes Pro and Twitch.TV streamer, Jason Somerville, joins Team PokerStars Pro

Popular American poker professional Jason Somerville has joined Team PokerStars Pro, bringing his high-energy, intelligent and approachable brand of poker to the world’s largest online poker brand.

Somerville represents the latest generation of poker pros, raised on American poker television and videogame culture. The young American has parlayed his poker passion into a successful Twitch feed, where fans watch his real-time play, commentary and strategic advice on the popular video platform and game community.

Somerville has more than $6 million in tournament winnings and is known as ‘jcarverpoker’ on Twitch, where he has more than 3 million unique viewers. He has been live-streaming his ‘Run it UP!’ series to followers on YouTube and Twitch for the past 18 months. In his new role as a Team PokerStars Pro, he will launch Run it UP! Season 3 this coming Sunday, March 1 at 12.00 ET, which can be viewed on the PokerStars Twitch channel: http://www.twitch.tv/pokerstars.

This marks the launch of the PokerStars Twitch channel, which will host a wide variety of entertaining and educational content, including streams from other members of Team PokerStars Pro.

“I’m delighted to become a member of Team PokerStars and can’t wait to resume my Run it UP! series on Twitch,” says Somerville. “I’ll be live streaming for several hours this coming Sunday and I can’t wait to hear from, and chat to, a growing group of poker fans as the broadcasts continue. I’m also excited about representing PokerStars in online and live poker events in 2015.”

INNOVATION
The sponsorship deal is a great fit for PokerStars and Somerville, both of whom are leaders and innovators in the worlds of entertainment, technology and poker. Jason will now help to broaden the reach of poker to new audiences on Twitch and YouTube.

Head of Pro & Celebrity Marketing, Kirsty Thompson, said: “Jason is a unique proposition – a poker pioneer who has had great success both online and live, and brings something different to the table through the way in which he has built a popular live streaming poker show. I’m sure he will be a great ambassador for PokerStars and help to increase the level of interactivity between the brand and its players.”

CAREER SUCCESS
While Somerville has carved out a name for himself as a live-streaming poker evangelist, he also has a fantastic tournament record to back up his educational videos. His list of achievements includes:

$3.9 million in live tournament winnings
$2 million+ in online tournament winnings
Largest cash of $1,347,352 (4th, $100k Super High Roller, Las Vegas – June 2014)
World Series of Poker bracelet (June 2011) for $493,091
Spring Championship of Online Poker title (May 2010) for $234,334
Formerly sponsored by Ultimate Poker
The full PokerStars Blog story behind Somerville’s sponsorship is also available here: http://psta.rs/1atjZRg.

Jason will play on PokerStars under the new screen name ‘jcarverpoker’ (he was previously known as ‘Taknapotin’).

wasnt he livin in vegas?
did he relocate for that or is PS in US real now?

i think he moved to canada or something

Jason used to be a huge SC2 fan probably why he understood the value of streaming. Best of luck to him.

Just a question for someone more qualified than me, I've watched his stream and he obviously knows what he's doing, but how good is he? Would he be able to play regularily mid/high stakes online with a profit?

Just checking out stream now. Had no idea poker players streamed on twitch. How is this a good thing for him? Surely players can stream snipe and see all his cards at table? What is the delay on the stream ? Even if its 10min stream the information he is giving to other players at table is huge??

most of the time he 1 tables low stakes, 200nl or below. It's not like he is reg warring at 10/20 on stars.

But if that's the case how did he win so much money?

On March 01 2015 22:57 ClouD87 wrote: But if that's the case how did he win so much money?

Back in the day he played highstakes

On March 01 2015 19:44 ClouD87 wrote: Just a question for someone more qualified than me, I've watched his stream and he obviously knows what he's doing, but how good is he? Would he be able to play regularily mid/high stakes online with a profit?

cash? no. can't speak to tournaments though his results are impressive.

On March 01 2015 19:44 ClouD87 wrote: Just a question for someone more qualified than me, I've watched his stream and he obviously knows what he's doing, but how good is he? Would he be able to play regularily mid/high stakes online with a profit?

hes played 1knl on stream before, and I recall him saying he would have no problem playing even higher than that if the games ever ran on the us sites. not sure if he will though