{"id":3357,"date":"2014-09-18T11:50:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T11:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slategray-wallaby-310340.hostingersite.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/18\/jason-somerville-part-3-big-swings-and-shots-on-the-high-stakes\/"},"modified":"2014-09-18T11:50:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T11:50:19","slug":"jason-somerville-part-3-big-swings-and-shots-on-the-high-stakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casino-online-best.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/18\/jason-somerville-part-3-big-swings-and-shots-on-the-high-stakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Somerville \u2013 Part 3 \u2013 Big Swings and Shots on the High Stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><em>This is the third of four parts in which Jason Somerville tells us his life story. In the previous parts you were able to read about Somerville\u2019s goals and aspirations with his YouTube show \u2018Run it Up,\u2019 his childhood, being a karate teacher and starting to explore the options of being a professional poker player. In the third part Somerville continues on the latter, as he walks us through some of the most pivotal moments of his career.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"\/poker\/interview\/jason-somerville-brings-back-the-fun-in-poker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 1: Jason Somerville Brings Back the Fun in Poker<br \/><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"\/poker\/interview\/jason-somerville-battling-illness-teaching-karate-and-discovering-poker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 2: Jason Somerville: Battling Illness, Teaching Karate and Discovering Poker<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Looking for Validation<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Ever since Somerville started playing poker he\u2019s been very meticulously keeping track of all his wins and losses. The youngster, who was playing underage at the time, had no expenses as he was living with his parents and every dollar earned was a dollar saved. Saved for his bankroll that is.<\/p>\n<p>Somerville\u2019s money from the early days stayed in play and that allowed him to build up a sizable bankroll. With an almost neurotic need to keep his statistics up to date and an obsession with the game like no other, Somerville proved to have a successful recipe in hand to make this into a worthy profession.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt almost blows my mind that I was so neurotic with it,\u201d Somerville said about the way he kept track of his results, \u201cI don\u2019t know how many journal entries I posted, but I believe it was something like over 4,000 individual sessions that I recorded. I recorded the duration, where I played, what it was that I played, what the buy in was, what the cash out was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every single site Somerville played on would be recorded individually, charts were made and journal entries were written. For an outsider it might\u2019ve looked like Somerville had gone crazy, but in order to become successful at something where the brightest young minds compete, you might have to just be that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very important to me to keep those stats accurate, because there were a lot of people that doubted me, especially when I first started. Who wouldn\u2019t doubt this random 16 year-old kid playing a game trying to make money?\u201d Somerville asked himself before continuing, \u201cTo me those stats were validation. Those stats were everything to me. It was proof that what I was doing was actually working, that I was actually right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Somerville's total career earnings until February 2005 versus his total hours played\"src=\"\" alt=\"Somerville's total career earnings until February 2005 versus his total hours played\" width=\"385\" height=\"225\"><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Jason Somerville\u2019s total career online poker earnings up until February 2005 versus the hours played<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the first time in Somerville\u2019s life he\u2019d found a way to give his all in something he believed in. Somerville trusted he had what it took to be a professional, and the traditional path of completing his education and finding a stable job went out the window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the first time in my life that I was really able to say \u2018No, this is what I want\u2019 and to be right, and actually assert myself as an adult, and for the first time and say, \u2018Look, this traditional classic paths of things, might work for other people but it\u2019s not for me, what I\u2019m doing is working for me and here\u2019s the proof.\u2019 The obsession that I had with poker carried on, strongly through the stats and without that I don\u2019t know if I would have been able to do this as a career,\u201d Somerville said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one thing for me to say, \u2018I\u2019ve made $90,000 in the last year\u2019, but then you can get a response like, \u2018Alright kid that\u2019s cool\u2019, which I can counter with, \u2018Alright, here\u2019s a list of the 1,200 sessions that I\u2019ve kept track of so that you can see every single dollar that has come in and out of my operation this year. You can see that I\u2019ve put in 1,200 hours this year and these are my results. I\u2019ve played all but three days in the last 300 days, so that\u2019s my proof.\u2019 That is empowering right there,\u201d Somerville said as he caught his breath after passionately referring to this desire to prove himself when he first started.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Somerville's earnings by location while playing online\"src=\"\" alt=\"Somerville's earnings by location while playing online\" width=\"385\" height=\"225\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Somerville\u2019s earnings per location, both live and online, back in the day<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is validation that doesn\u2019t come in many other ways. That only comes from hard work, commitment and trying to achieve that. To me those stats and those graphs were like the bible. They were the foundation of everything,\u201d Somerville added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven so I\u2019m a neurotic note taker. I have a mini laptop I use for notes, I have two iPads, I have my phone and my computer, a waterproof note pad and waterproof paper for the shower as well,\u201d Somerville said and he continued, \u201cI hate losing ideas or potentially forgetting something that I will want to remember someday. It\u2019s awesome to be able to go back and look through all of it and be like \u2018Wow I did what? What day? I won how much doing this? I was playing 1-dollar sit and gos?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Looking Back on the Early Days<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cBecause I have all that information I can go back and see what my ROI was in $2 dollar tournaments that had more than a certain number of players in a given sample size. I used PokerCharts for all my tracking and I don\u2019t know if anybody ever utilized that website as well as I did, because I used the graphs for all the blogs I wrote, for the videos I created and for my own career,\u201d Somerville said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking back, the things that always surprised me the most, were that I\u2019ve forgotten how bad I did in tournaments early on. I also forgot what a big percentage of my career I spent playing limit hold\u2019em primarily. I really didn\u2019t start winning money in tournaments until the one year I won a lot of money in tournaments. Before then I was really just bad and didn\u2019t understand them at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really made a lot of my money playing cash only the first few years. I had some really sick cash games graphs. I went back and I found that there was a site that I played on a lot back in the day where I had $800 dollars in the account, two weeks later I had spun that $800 dollars up to 50k. There were so many cool things on the graphs and it was really awesome to be able to look back and have all that information,\u201d Somerville said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"A coin flip from back in the day on Pacific Poker\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/AK_flip-1.jpg\"><imgsrc=\"\" alt=\"A coin flip from back in the day on Pacific Poker\"><\/a>\u00a0A coin flip from back in the day on Pacific Poker, won by JCarver himself<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It almost seemed like keeping statistics on every single session he played were a way to solely prove to the outside world that he was doing well. That validation, from the outside world, was something he vowed he did not need after falling ill with ulcerative colitis in the early days of his poker career. Somerville however explained that he did indeed needed validation for himself as well, because being able to win at poker was not a given back when he started.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I was undertaking was clearly not obvious to be successful. Even though keeping track of my operation also created a way for me to tell those around me that what I was doing was serious, and that what I was doing was working, but I was also able to validate that to myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Somerville chuckled and added, almost in a way to mock his younger self, \u201cLet\u2019s be honest, quitting school or even considering quitting school, was not normal. Everything that I was doing was not normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a difference between being confident in yourself and being blind to the possibility of failure. I really wanted to make sure that what I was doing was viable, because at first I was also a little skittish about it. The day that I\u2019ll never forget is the day that I drove from my parents\u2019 house to the new house that I had bought, which was not that far from there. When I was leaving my parents\u2019 house that day, my dad said to me \u2018You\u2019re basically on your own now, I can\u2019t help you if this doesn\u2019t go well\u2019 because it was during the recession and the construction industry was doing nothing. I, for the majority of this journey, was pretty much left to myself. For me to really take this path I wanted to know for sure that I was a winner at what I was doing. I needed that to give me the confidence to make the rest of my moves in poker. Without it, it would have been like folly almost; it would have been just a guess.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Making The Big Money<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Somerville bought a house with some of his first big winnings and proved to everyone, including himself, that poker was the right thing. The time during which this happened was perfect, as the housing market\u2019s bubble had not burst yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were giving out mortgages like they were cotton candy back then. I was somehow not only qualified for a mortgage but VIP qualified for a mortgage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While many people in the United States ended up getting into trouble over an expensive mortgage, Somerville didn\u2019t. The poker pro never missed a payment and happily owned a home not too far from where he grew up. Somerville moved back into the town his parents moved from while he was in high school on a Wednesday, and that same Sunday he won the Full Tilt $500 for $200,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the time that was by far the biggest score in my life. It was a nice house-warming present to basically have a severe chunk of the house covered all of a sudden. That was awesome. I really liked that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Playing live poker back in the day\"src=\"\" alt=\"Playing live poker back in the day\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Jason Somerville playing live during the early days of his career<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Somerville didn\u2019t slow down one bit and played serious stakes online over the course of the next few years. There\u2019s even a video in which he describes the biggest pots he\u2019s ever played, and he recalled some for this interview as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cMy career path wasn\u2019t like getting up to $100\/$200, making 500k and then taking that 500k and then playing $10\/$20 for the rest of my life. I\u2019m pretty sure my net earning at $50\/$100 and higher are fewer than six figures. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve made a lot of money playing super high stakes or anything like that,\u201d Somerville said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vast majority of my poker earnings came from $25\/$50 and below and tournaments both live and online. That being said, I never shied away from a challenge when I thought I had enough money to take a shot and could do it. I always had a very open mind set, as I either played and I won, which would be sweet, or I played and lost and I\u2019d just take a step down and make more money some other time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never looked at it as a situation when I could really lose. I\u2019ll never forget that first night I played $200\/$400 no limit. I only had 100k to my name and I ended up sitting down with $20,000 or $25,000. \u2018I\u2019ll just sit down with a quarter of my entire net worth,\u2019\u201d Somerville paraphrased himself jokingly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember not even being that nervous, it was just so incredibly awesome to play $200\/$400 like, \u2018Yes I\u2019ll min raise from the button for 800 dollars,\u2019\u201d Somerville laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was so intoxicatingly awesome to me, the idea of being able to do that. Also, once you lose a huge hand at $200\/$400, who cares if you lose 10k at $25\/$50? I always felt like taking shots at higher stakes would make me tougher and stronger at lower stakes because I would just care less. If it ever worked out well, that would be awesome, I could just move up and play higher stakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always figured was a totally fine experience, so my career is dotted with these shot takes and stabs at higher stakes. I was always like \u2018Why not, what\u2019s the worst thing that could happen?\u2019 In this particular session of $200\/$400, I remember I took Ivey\u2019s or Antonius\u2019s seat in a six-handed game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe game seemed good. I won a little bit of money before a hand came up where I raised with ace-eight off suit, with the eight of spades, and got a caller from who I believe was the fish that I was there to hunt at the table. He was the small blind and I had raised from the button. It came nine-ten-jack all spades. So I flopped an open-ended-straight flush draw with the ace-high and I believe he checked, I bet and he raised. At that point in my poker career I thought like, \u2018I got A high and open-ended straight flush draw, let\u2019s run it\u2019, I didn\u2019t fold, even though I would never play the hand this way these days, but bear in mind that this was 2006 so whatever,\u201d Somerville laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I got it in and he had the king of spades and a nine. So he had a pair and a higher flush draw and he had the higher gut shot covered. I was basically dead to the off suit ace or seven, or the seven of spades. I held seven outs twice, which is not how you want to get $50,000 into the pot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou want to get your first 25k in good and I\u2019ll never forget that we both got our money in, the piles of chips were in from of both of us, and when Full Tilt took in the pot, it converted all the chips into basically to two purple 25k chips and a couple other chips after that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI distinctly remember all of our money morphing into these two tiny chips that are obviously so valuable. The board bricks out and I ship this guy a 50k pot and I didn\u2019t even quit at that point. I was like \u2018Well, got to reload.\u2019 I was so mad at myself. I guess I was tilted enough to reload and I think I lost that 8k too before quitting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo this day that is the only day that I had trouble sleeping from losing, because I was pissed at myself for losing a third of my total money. But I eventually went to sleep determined,\u201d Somerville said, as the big loss hadn\u2019t discouraged him in the slightest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took me a while to get over that, but I had trouble sleeping only the first night. I was determined to get back in there and not let this slow me down and to just grind the next day and that\u2019s what I did. I\u2019m sure I took no time off. I\u2019ve never been a fan of taking time off. You can thank my dad for that one. I\u2019ve been alive for 27 years; I think my dad has taken like 6 days off since I\u2019ve been born. This is not how we do it over here in the Somerville household,\u201d Somerville said in his usual chipper manner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Playing on Poker Night in America\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Poker_Night_in_America-1.JPG\"><imgsrc=\"\" alt=\"Playing on Poker Night in America\"><\/a>Somerville during his time on Poker Night in America<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Following His Dad\u2019s Advice and Losing Big<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Somerville\u2019s dad however was also part of the biggest loss he\u2019s ever had in his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest loss I\u2019ve ever had in my life, I lost like $120,000 in a night, playing absurd games, like $400\/$800 pineapple and some other crazy stuff. I lost that money in a 20-hour live session and called my dad, and this is maybe like three years ago, I called my dad and told him about it. I have always been honest with my parents about losses and while my dad always seems fine my mom reacts to it a bit differently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always tell my parents how much I win or lose, because honesty is great and my parents get a kick out of it anyway. I told my dad I lost money thinking he would be like \u2018Oh wow that\u2019s crazy, I\u2019m sorry to hear that\u2019, anything like that I was expecting to hear. Not my dad, he goes, \u2018Oh well, what are you doing, get back in there!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>At that point I thought, \u2018Oh wow, what does this mean? My dad believes in me, this confidence is so great. It\u2019s so awesome that my dad is excited for me.\u2019 With that confidence I went to sleep for like six hours, got back in the game and lost another $100,000. So thanks dad for that bit of encouragement that just cost me another 100k!\u201d Somerville said jokingly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been so many great moments in my poker career, even these losing stories, I just love them, looking back I have quite a fondness for all these stories,\u201d Somerville said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not all bad stories when it comes to Somerville\u2019s shot-taking. This summer the \u2018Run it UP\u2019 chairman and president took a shot in a $100,000 tournament at the Bellagio and he managed to take home $1.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never was like a mass grinder, I just happened to always do well when I did play, at a certain point in my career. The obsession I had with playing a lot faded when I was around 23. That\u2019s when I really started to not be that person anymore and became close to how I am now, and I just play the biggest things and whenever I want to play, I play. That only came into effect 3 or 4 years ago. Before that I was definitely a grinder and made most of my money just by identifying good spots, putting in the time and always working on my game and trying to outwit, and outthink my opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce I got into tournaments, I didn\u2019t really need to do anything besides play tournaments because I was way ahead of the curve at the time. Especially at first, I was doing things that weren\u2019t really standard at the time. I think I was one of the first people to really be aggressive with the min raising stuff pre-flop. Floating and calling in position were things I had taken from cash games, and that wasn\u2019t really done in tournaments before at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the years Somerville has been successful in both tournaments and cash games, and he explained how that\u2019s in part due to Daniel Negreanu\u2019s mentorship. Somerville considers himself lucky to have Negreanu as his mentor, as he was able to pick up lots of things from him.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Focusing on Different Ventures<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>While many poker players need to constantly work on their game, play the game and grind the circuit, this is not the case for Somerville. When he works on his game, he works hard. When he plays the game, he\u2019s fully focused, but whenever he\u2019s not he manages to disconnect himself from that part of his life quite easily so it seems. The heyday of his poker-playing career, as a grinder, seems to be in the past but let this not be mistaken for an early retirement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cIf I really needed to make money, I would have to grind, I would have to play a lot, I would have to go overseas, play the circuit tremendously. In the last few years I\u2019ve transitioned out of poker a little bit. I\u2019ve transitioned more into \u2018Run it up\u2019, business and Ultimate Poker, because as much as I love poker, I still want to do other things. There\u2019s so many aspects to life, there\u2019s more to learn, and there\u2019s more I want to try.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s face it, the best poker players in the world are not really making tons of money. Obviously you can make a very strong living in poker but look at Phil Ivey, he is likely one of the people making the most money. You look at Jungleman, you look at all those guys. They\u2019ve made like $10 million online, which is plenty of money but it\u2019s hard to make three million a year in poker consistently. It\u2019s even very hard to make a million a year consistently in poker. In business there are plenty of opportunities to look into, because if you compare that to the stock market for instance, how many people in the stock market make a million a year?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are plenty of easier arenas to do battle in. Not that I\u2019m looking for an easier arena mind you. But there are plenty of other arenas that are interesting to me, some that have higher ceilings to it, in business and investments and other kinds of things. My approach is to some degree part of my confidence, that no matter where I go I can land on my feet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that I\u2019ll work hard, I\u2019m not afraid of working hard, I\u2019m not afraid of having to start over, I\u2019m not afraid of having no money, I\u2019m not afraid of change or having to be in a new position or having to earn my way back up. Part of that comes from the confidence in knowing that I have been a winner and I was a winner for so long. Having the confidence in yourself definitely carries over into all parts of your life as well, because in the end all you can do is have confidence in your own decision making.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Somerville, beyond anything, has confidence in his ability to do whatever he feels is worth his time and effort. That view he has on his life, even though it sounds straight forward, is unique and an asset that cannot be underestimated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Run it UP fan art\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/runningbad_smaller-1.jpg\"><imgsrc=\"\" alt=\"Run it UP fan art\"><\/a>Run it UP fan art<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like I have a work ethic advantage over most of my contemporaries. That\u2019s how I\u2019ve always been raised and how I\u2019ve always lived. To me, if I\u2019m not working towards my goals then they are not any closer. I remember distinctly from the karate days that we had a saying that went as a teacher, that every day when a student came to class they were either one day closer to becoming a black belt or one day closer to quitting,\u201d Somerville said, as that perspective on things really stuck in his head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat always really motivated me; let\u2019s not sit around and do nothing today, let\u2019s get out there, let\u2019s play, let\u2019s think, let\u2019s work and let\u2019s try to build the business. Let\u2019s try to think about if there was somebody else right now gunning for \u2018Run it up\u2019, if there was somebody else out there who was going to be like, \u2018You know what I can do that better than Jason\u2019, what would they do? It drives me to try make what I\u2019m doing better, better than what they\u2019re doing. To anticipate what the next big thing will be, to anticipate what the fans want, what people want to see, what people want to have. I\u2019ve applied that same thought process to basically everything in my life,\u201d Somerville passionately explained.<\/p>\n<p>The heyday of Somerville\u2019s karate teaching days showed lots of similarities with his life as a professional poker player. When Somerville was climbing the ranks in poker he showed similar passion and dedication, and right now he\u2019s showing those qualities during the improvement and development of \u2018Run it up\u2019. Somerville however also admits that during his downtime, when he\u2019s not producing content or playing poker, he feels good doing absolutely nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p>Somerville didn\u2019t drink; he never went out, didn\u2019t do drugs and spent his money wisely, if at all. He didn\u2019t have many friends during his most dedicated time to poker, as he really only spoke to the people he met through poker online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was living in Long Island I saw a handful of friends that I\u2019ve had from the karate era. Almost none of my high school friends were still around, most of them had moved off of Long Island or had went to college or something. I basically just had my Internet friends for poker mostly and a handful of people that I knew locally and some family. None of that was enough to keep me from grinding almost every single day for years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would spend my downtime playing video games and that was it. That was basically my life back then. It doesn\u2019t really sound as productive as these days. During Season 2 of \u2018Run it UP\u2019 my days are absolutely nuts. I\u2019m waking up, trying to do a morning catch up with everybody that\u2019s around here, trying to see what we have to accomplish today, what\u2019s on the to-do list. Then getting whatever has to get done in the morning, I usually re-watch the video that we are putting out to refresh my memory as far as the hands that are going on, what I\u2019m going to say for social media, what I\u2019m going to say if I want to change the video title, making sure the annotations are right and the tags are all set right, making sure the Ultimate Poker blog is coordinated and ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen putting the video out, getting the video released, I\u2019m doing a lot of media stuff around the video, planning out for the future videos, doing a bunch of production, working with my artist, I do a lot of stuff. I think one of the coolest things about \u2018Run it UP\u2019 is all the amazing artwork that we have created, both the fans and on our side, I have a team of people, videographers, marketing people, a whole bunch of people I try to learn from or utilize in various ways. A whole bunch of meetings and conversations and decisions, I have the store orders going out, now we have the store up and loaded. It\u2019s crazy. We have three white boards of lists around here of things that just have to get done these days. It\u2019s really awesome. This is certainly the most productive I have ever been in my life, as far as true output, because I have such a great team here of people that are able to extend my bandwidth. It\u2019s really awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack then, during my karate times, I had a little pond, these days I have a big appetite and a little pond I guess for right now. We\u2019ll see how it works out. I\u2019m loving it though, just like everything else. If I didn\u2019t love \u2018Run it up\u2019 and if I didn\u2019t love making videos and doing all this stuff, I wouldn\u2019t be doing it.I wake up every single day since I\u2019ve moved to Vegas and I\u2019m excited and enthusiastic, I feel optimistic about the challenges that are to come in the day.\u00a0Every single night that I go to sleep I always feel satisfied and usually exhausted. What more can you ask for than that for a life? I love how it\u2019s going right now and I\u2019m extraordinarily appreciative for all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"\/poker\/interview\/jason-somerville-reinventing-live-poker-with-run-it-up-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the fourth and final part<\/a>, when Somerville talks about the future of Run it UP, Run it UP live events, the situation surrounding Daniel Colman and his approach to poker media.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/poker-interviews\/jason-somerville-big-swings-and-shots-on-the-high-stakes\/\">Jason Somerville \u2013 Part 3 \u2013 Big Swings and Shots on the High Stakes<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/igaming.org\/\">iGaming.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third of four parts in which Jason Somerville tells us his life story. In the previous parts you were able to read about Somerville\u2019s goals and aspirations with his YouTube show \u2018Run it Up,\u2019 his childhood, being a karate teacher and starting to explore the options of being a professional poker player. 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