Ep 28 - The Godfather of Twitch Jason Somerville + The Astros Cheating Scandal
Cracking Aces
Barstool Sports
4.6 • 887 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Coming off the Daniel Negreanu episode we have another huge guest in this show, none other than Jason Somerville from Run It Up aka The Twitchfather. Dude basically invented poker streaming, and now has made it into a huge business. We also talk about the Astros cheating scandal and some Poker Masters as well. Jason was awesome to talk to, do enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, Cracking Ace's listeners? You can find every episode on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Prime |
| 0:07.2 | members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. music. this podcast. I am Nate. To my left is Jacob Tool, 34th place |
| 0:27.0 | finisher in the 2015 W-SOP main event. And Daniel, our good pal Daniel, who was on bonus episode Monday. |
| 0:37.0 | He finished 11th in it and you made sure to needle him about that unintentionally on the |
| 0:43.7 | last episode. |
| 0:44.7 | This is unintentionally sure. |
| 0:48.8 | So this is episode 28. |
| 0:51.8 | It is November 13th, and we have another big guest today. |
| 0:58.0 | We will be joined in a few minutes by the stream father the |
| 1:03.3 | father the godfather of internet poker |
| 1:06.8 | streaming himself Jason Somerville |
| 1:10.8 | I'm a big clapper today I don't know what's going on. I met Jason Somerville |
| 1:16.3 | Probably five years ago when he did his first ever run it up Reno. I actually went to it |
| 1:21.6 | Um, it was really oh yeah, I don't know it. Um, it was... |
| 1:23.0 | Oh yeah, I don't know if I ever even told you that. |
| 1:25.0 | I had no idea. |
| 1:26.0 | It was a very small event, all things considered at the time. |
| 1:30.0 | I was in Reno, Nevada, meth capital of the world. |
| 1:33.2 | I don't think that's what they prefer to be known for, but it is what it is. |
| 1:37.1 | It's pretty bleak there. |
| 1:38.1 | Yeah, I... |
| 1:40.1 | I mean, you know, he's bringing a good thing there, but right I've only been there once if you're making like honeymoon |
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