Besides winning millions of dollars playing poker online and live, Jason Somerville has gotten himself a decent fan base over the past 2 years through his live streaming videos of Youtube and Twitch. Today, PokerStars announced via a press release that the 27-year-old American has joined its Team PokerStars Pro.
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Joined: Apr '11
Location: Romania
Age: 58 (M)
Posts: 2432
The 27-year old described his new deal as "the holy grail", and plans to celebrate by playing on PokerStars every day for 70 days while broadcasting live. His epic grind begins this coming Sunday, and will amount a monumental 16,000 minutes (4 hours per day) of action. Fast and furious.
Joined: Mar '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 55 (M)
Posts: 7371
This really is the definition of my dream job. This guy earns millions of dollars playing poker and now he gets paid for promoting something he loves doing, congrats to him on landing this job
Joined: Mar '12
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 45 (F)
Posts: 2261
That is a great "job" to have but after the winnings he has achieved he deserves it.He has lots of videos on youtube and I think he plays as taknapotin on those but not sure if that is his stars alias.
Joined: Oct '08
Location: Canada
Age: 66 (M)
Posts: 2423
so far he's not doing very well , he got booted from the million, he also got booted from the 20K gtd now he's playing 30K $100.00 buyin. but i did see him win a $30.00 heads up
Posted by ZippoMob: Where we can see his nickname at PS ?you know it ?
You could look after every Team PokerStars Pro player within the software - it has a whole section dedicated to that and while they are online you could watch them playing cash games, sngs and touries or whatnot. They aren't that hard to find.