Jason Somerville

Jason Somerville is a professional poker player and the host of the daily stream RunItUP on Twitch. Find his poker biography & videos here.

Jason Somerville is an American born professional poker player and the host of a stream on Twitch called Run It UP.

Jason Somerville was born in Long Island, New York and is a part of the “Moneymaker generation” of players, who saw what an amateur player could do and decided to take up poker. In contrast to many players, though, he never deposited and instead won a freeroll and built his bankroll from there. By the age of twenty, he had turned that initial win into a six-figure bankroll, at which point poker took over his life while still attending college. During classes, he would download poker clients and play, instead of focusing on lectures. After changing majors, he soon realized that he had a future in poker, rather than in studying.

Since the age of twenty-one, Somerville has played the WSOP each year, winning one bracelet in the $1,000 NLHE event in 2011 and gathering twenty “in the money” finishes as of 2015. He also has four cash finishes in the World Poker Tour, where was named on their “Ones To Watch” list in 2012, and two in the European Poker Tour.

Online he has over 250 cash finishes in tournaments, accounting for $2.2 million of his $6 million in total winnings. After Black Friday, however, he took a break from online play and focused more on the live tournaments across the world.

He came out as gay in a blog post on his website on Valentine’s Day 2012. To date, he is the only openly gay high-stakes player in the poker world. He anticipated at least some backlash, but says he was welcomed openly and has received a great deal of support from fellow players and the media alike.

From 2013-2014, Jason Somerville was signed on as a team pro for Ultimate Poker, a new online venture operating in the United States. This partnership spawned his video series called Run It Up, where he provided interviews and commentary on play alongside fellow pros like Danielle Anderson, Scott Seiver, and Antonio Esfandiari. Producing these videos helped him make the decision to continue pursuing a career in poker after growing tired of the daily grind that he had been doing since the age of 18. According to Somerville, he decided that he could be much happier making videos and playing poker for fun, instead of playing as many hands as possible for the sake of making money.

In early 2015, he signed on to Team Pro Online with PokerStars, moved to Toronto, and began streaming his play live on Twitch, where he began gathering a much larger following. That following brought him an average of 25,000 viewers during several WCOOP events in the fall of 2015. He also hosted a series of tournaments, seminars, and cash games in Reno, Nevada as a part of Run It UP Reno.

Jason plays on PokerStars under the name JCarverPoker.

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9 years ago7,263RPFC,

Published 9 years ago

Run it UP (240): The Return of Dmoongirl

In this edition of Run it Up, Jason is once again joined by Danielle 'Dmoongirl' Andersen

9 years ago9,482RPFC,

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Run it UP (239): PLO Science Lab

Jason Somerville's PLO adventure continues with some 'glorious' spots

9 years ago6,584RPFC,

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Run it UP (238): Boats and Floating

In this edition of the show, Jason Somerville is trying to Run it UP at some four-cards poker

9 years ago5,441RPFC,

Published 9 years ago

Run it UP (237): Quest for 2K Continues

Jason Somerville continues $1 / $2 NLHE quest for $2K profit

9 years ago8,608RPFC,

Published 9 years ago

Run it UP (236): Time Travel (Part 2) - 750K Guar MTT on Full Tilt

Jason Somerville continues his travel back in time, analyzing a 750K guaranteed tournament played while ago

9 years ago22,438Sherminator,

Published 9 years ago

Poker Night in America - S01 Ep13

The Poker Night in America high stakes cash game continues at the Maryland Live! Casino in MD. Featuring Matt Glantz, Ja...

9 years ago5,449RPFC,

Published 9 years ago

Run it UP (235): Time Travel - $750K Guaranteed Tourney Final Table

Jason Somerville doing a review of an older $750K tournament final table on Full Tilt

9 years ago6,476RPFC,

Published 9 years ago

Run it UP (234): Tournament Review Finale

Final episode of Jason Somerville's Run it UP - apprentice edition - with tournament review and introduction to official Run it UP...

9 years ago6,090RPFC,

Published 9 years ago

Run it UP (233): Heads Up Bonanza

Jason Somerville playing some $.05 / $1 NLHE heads up for the most part

9 years ago7,282RPFC,

Published 9 years ago

Run it UP (232): Gambling Superstitions

Jason Somerville continues with his $1 / $2 NLHE adventure with some funny banter, as usual

Live Poker Events, 7 years ago

Run it Up: Resorts Rumble Aims to Expand US Poker

A host of pros from the PokerStars team head to New Jersey’s Atlantic City Resorts casino for the state’s first live event, with Twitch TV favourite Jason Somerville heading the all-star cast.

Online Poker , 7 years ago

All Eyes On Jason Somerville

Jason invested 1,100 hours playing poker on Twitch in 2015 and he’s planning to do the same in 2016. The start of this year surpassed even his wildest dreams when he became the exclusive broadcaster of the 2016 Aussie Millions.

Live Poker Events, 8 years ago

Run It Up Reno HYPE

In little over a week from now, the 6-day RunItUp! Reno Festival will start at the Peppermill Resort Spa in Nevada’s ‘Biggest Little City in the World’.

JCarver Wins Almost 40k in the WCOOP While Streaming to 35k+

Jason 'JCarver' Somerville's Twitch stream broke his own previous record by streaming a WCOOP event to over 35,000 people where he cashed for almost 40k.

PokerStars Doing Their Part for Legalized Online Poker in California

PokerStars will try to move the online poker legislation in California along with the help of their sponsored pros Daniel Negreanu and Jason Somerville

Jason Somerville Latest Addition to Team PokerStars Pro Roster

Big:W;hen it comes to Team PokerStars Pros, more players have been leaving the ship than getting on it lately. But an announcement made earlier this morning at the PokerStars Blog came as a pleasant

Confirmed: Somerville and UP Parting Ways – ‘I Don’t Need no Man in My LIfe’

The rumors have been confirmed. Jason Somerville and Ultimate Poker will be parting ways. During his latest live stream Somerville explained the entire situation that has been talked about a lot

Jason Somerville and Ultimate Poker Parting Ways?

In recent weeks, a few sponsored professional poker players have been cut from different poker rooms. Shortly after the online poker giant, PokerStars, parted ways with Latin American players