Jason Somerville

Jason Somerville

aka "JCarver"
Nationality
United States
United States
GPI Rank 18,467
WSOP Bracelets 1
Total Live Earnings $3,822,308
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Biography

Jason Somerville is an American professional poker player from Miller Place, New York, who is often affectionately called The Godfather of Twitch due to him being one of the first prime-time poker Twitch streamers. Somerville is the founder of the Run It Up poker community, which produces poker content and even runs live poker events.

Somerville discovered poker in 2004 while watching the World Poker Tour on television with his father. Immediately hooked, Somerville began researching the game, before heading into the online poker world once he graduated high school. Somerville started his career playing freeroll tournaments online and had soon built a six-figure bankroll without ever making a real money deposit.

Using the alias "JCarver," Somerville quickly gained a reputation for being a top-level online poker tournament grinder. However, when Black Friday occurred in April 2011, Somerville was forced to leave the online poker world and focus his attention on live poker events.

Before switching to live poker almost full time in 2011, Somerville had already racked up some impressive results in the live poker arena. His first trip to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Ls Vegas in 2008 (when turned 21), saw Somerville cash in three No-Limit Hold'em events. In 2009, Somerville cashed in the €10,600 PokerStars EPT Grand Final for a then career-best $68,372.

His first six-figure haul came two month later when he was the runner-up in a $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout event at the 2009 WSOP for $194,004. Two weeks later, Somerville won $103,591 by finishing fifth in a $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Triple Chance event.

The 2010 WSOP saw Somerville twice come close to become a WSOP champion in high-stakes tournaments. He finished fourth in the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Heads-Up Championship and fourth in the $25,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed event, which earned him $219,969 and $386,125, respectively.

A year later, Somerville captured the bracelet and $493,091 top prize in a $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em event.

That prize money remained Somerville's largest haul for four year until he finished fourth in a $100,000 buy-in Super High Roller event in Las Vegas for a cool $1,327,352.

More recently, in January 2023, Somerville won an online tournament that awarded a WSOP Circuit ring to its champion, thus adding another piece of poker jewelry to his collection.

Jason Somerville's Top 5 Live Poker Results

DateEventFinishPrize
Jun 2014$100,000 Super High Roller4th$1,327,352
Jun 2011$1,000 WSOP No-Limit Hold'em1st$493,091
Jun 2010$25,000 WSOP No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed4th$386,125
Jun 2010$10,000 WSOP No-Limit Hold'em Heads-Up4th$219,969
Feb 2012$10,000 WPT L.A. Poker Classic6th$202,910

PokerNews Covered Events

Event Place Prize
2023 WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas
$10,400 WPT World Championship
140th $34,100
2023 World Series of Poker
Event #76: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship
288th $44,700
2023 World Series of Poker
Event #4: Tournament of Champions
23rd $6,400
2022 World Series of Poker
[Online] No-Limit Hold'em BIG $500
257th $719
2021 World Series of Poker
Event #64: $5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha
27th $15,121
2021 World Series of Poker
Event #30: $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold'em
112th $4,527
2021 World Series of Poker
Event #27: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E
63rd $3,000
2021 World Series of Poker
Event #16: $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship
5th $58,697
2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet Events
Event #15: $5,300 NLH High Roller Freezeout
18th $9,870
2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet Events
Event #4: $500 NLH Super Turbo
97th $726
2020 World Series of Poker Main Event
2020 WSOP Main Event - WSOP.com
32nd $29,779
2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet Events
Event #24: $400 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed
149th $1,040
2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet Events
Event #21: $777 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed
87th $1,620
2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet Events
Event #16: $500 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo
189th $756
2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet Events
Event #13: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Freezeout
53rd $3,977
2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet Events
Event #10: $600 No-Limit Hold'em MonsterStack
54th $3,023
2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet Events
Event #2: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed Deepstack
6th $27,763
Run It Up Reno IX
$1,100 Thursday Thrilla
17th $1,500
Run It Up Reno VIII
$600 Main Event
75th $970
2016 Run It Up Reno
$565 Main Event
4th $13,300
2016 Run It Up Reno
$125 Six-Max Five-Card Pot-Limit Omaha
10th $225
2016 Run It Up Reno
$125 Six-Max Four-Card Pot-Limit Omaha
13th $190
2016 Run It Up Reno
$235 Tuesday Takeoff
15th $365
2015 Run It Up Reno
$125 Six-Max Five-Card Pot-Limit Omaha
1st $3,828
2014 World Series of Poker
Event #58: $1,500 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold'em
95th $3,245
2014 World Series of Poker
Event #47: $1,500 Ante-Only No-Limit Hold'em
21st $6,573
2014 World Series of Poker
Event #39: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em
99th $5,578
2014 World Series of Poker
Event #19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
84th $4,505
2014 World Series of Poker
Event #3: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha
18th $7,553
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 61: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event
69th $106,056
2012 World Series of Poker
$25,300 One Drop Mega Satellite
3rd $400,000
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 23: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed
51st $7,643
2012 World Series of Poker
Event 6: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mixed-Max
35th $10,984
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #20: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
1st $493,091
2011 World Series of Poker
Event #7: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship
14th $32,183
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #52: $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed
4th $386,125
2010 World Series of Poker
Event #35: $10,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship
3rd $214,289
2009 PokerStars.com EPT London
£5,000 EPT London Main Event
73rd £9,200
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 52 - $3,000 Triple Chance No Limit Hold'em
5th $103,591
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 22 - $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Shootout
2nd $194,004
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 15 - $5,000 No Limit Hold'em
45th $14,192
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final
€10,000 EPT Grand Final Main Event
19th €52,000
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 39 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
150th $3,527
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 29 - $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em
61st $6,126
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 7 - $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em
64th $6,374

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