Jason Somerville

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jason Somerville
Occupation	Poker Player
Date Of Birth	Apr 15, 1987(1987-04-15)
Age	37
Country	United States
Birth City	New York City
Horoscope	Aries

Jason Somerville Biography

Jason Somerville is one of the most popular and richest Poker Player who was born on April 15, 1987 in New York City, United States. Jason Scott ‘JCarver’ Somerville (born on April 15 1987) is an American poker player who is specialized on Texas Hold’em. He holds only one World Series of Poker bracelet and 3.9 million the live results of tournaments. He is the creator of Run It UP, a live stream video series where viewers are invited to “watch, listen, and learn as he turns $50 into $10,000”. He has also been a contributing member for his PokerVT Training team, serving as an instructor of advanced level at poker tournaments as well as a “Ones to Watch” for the World Poker Tour XI Season.

Somerville published the first episode of his YouTube series called “Eating Cake” to YouTube on December 2nd 2011. The show ran for 30 episodes, and the final episode released on February 13 the 13th of February, 2012. Following the time that Russell Thomas made the final table at the 2012 WSOP Main Event, he reached out to Somerville to assist him in preparing in the three months prior to the event on October 28. Somerville recorded the event in a documentary series of six episodes called “The Final Table”.

In April 2011, online poker was shut down in the USA. Somerville was mostly absent from online tournament poker until 2013 when Ultimate Poker brought legalized and regulated online poker back to America, having chosen not to relocate out of the country. Jason played on Ultimate Poker until it was shut down in 2014 because the Nevada-based site’s revenues fell far short of projected expectations.

On Valentine’s Day of 2012, Somerville came out as gay in a blog post. He is the first, and currently the only, openly gay high-stakes male player. He has found great support both from within the poker community and from media outlets outside of the world of poker, including Perez Hilton and The Advocate.

Somerville has more than 250 tournaments online “in the money” finishes which total over $2.2 million in tournament wins. The year 2009 was the time he deposited the debut Spring Championship of Online Poker event, earning $35,140 for 20th place and also won 5 World Championship of Online Poker events which included a final table, which cost total of $21,760. The year before, he took home his first SCOOP tournament and cashed in five other events with a final table finish for $448,421 and three WCOOP tournaments at $19,100.

Jason Somerville Net Worth

Jason Somerville is one of the richest Poker Player from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jason Somerville 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

It was in 2008 that Somerville was the first player to participate in the World Series of Poker schedule with 3 No Limit Hold’em events for $16,027. He also took part in three No-Limit Hold’em games for $311,786 and 2 final table finishing. He participated in four No-Limit Hold’em games totaling $640,904 and two final table finishes, as well as his very first WSOP Main Event. Jason won his first bracelet in 2011. Jason took home his very first gold bracelet in a $1000 No Limit Texas Hold’em event winning against the field of 3,175 players. He also won another event that was a No-Limit Hold’em one in the same was worth $525,274. In 2012, Jason cashed in 3 No-Limit Hold’em games at $124,683, which included his most intense run to date at the WSOP Main Event placing 69th of 6,598 participants. The same summer, he finished 3rd in the No Limit Hold’em satellite tournament in The Big One for One Drop $1,000,000 buy- in tournament , which cost $400,000.

On April 9, 2009 Somerville finished 19th on the Euro10,000 no Limit Hold’em Grand Final in Monte Carlo for $68,372. In October , later in the year He placed 73rd at the EPT EUR5,000 Main event for No Limit Hold’em in London for 14,646. In January of 2010 the tournament, he finished 4th at the Poker Caribbean Adventures $5,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament for $81,480. He also was on the final table and placed 6th in the World Poker Tour Los Angeles Poker Classic $10,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament for $202,910. Then, in June of 2014, the Somerville FYF won 100k in the high Roller event in the Bellagio and cut into 4th place cash at $1,327,352.

Somerville began his online video career creating strategy videos for PokerVT in 2011.

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On April 14, 2014, PokerNews announced that Somerville would cohost the live hour-long PokerNews Podcast every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday during the 2014 World Series of Poker, available on YouTube.

Facts & Trivia

Jason Ranked on the list of most popular Poker Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jason Somerville celebrates birthday on April 15 of every year.

As of early 2014, Somerville has focused on live-streaming poker sessions for Run It Up on his Twitch channel. He was signed to Team PokerStars and began Season 3 of his Twitch stream on March 1, 2015. Somerville took a break from streaming on Twitch starting May 21, 2017, causing his followers to question if and when he would return to that venue, but he returned in August 2018.