Jason Somerville

In October later that year, he placed 73rd in the EPT €5,000 No Limit Hold'em Main event in London for $14,646.

Jason Scott 'JCarver' Somerville (born April 15, 1987) is an American poker player specializing in Texas Hold'em.

He has one World Series of Poker bracelet and 3.9 million in live tournament results.

He is the founder of Run It UP, a video/live stream series where viewers are encouraged to "watch, listen, and learn as he turns $50 into $10,000".

He has been a contributor to the PokerVT training team as an advanced instructor in poker tournaments and a "Ones to Watch" for the World Poker Tour XI Season.

That same summer he also placed 3rd in No Limit Hold'em satellite tournament to the Big One for One Drop $1,000,000 buy-in tournament for $400,000.

Somerville discovered poker in 2004 while watching the World Poker Tour with his dad on television.

Shortly thereafter, he began researching the game on the internet and playing locally with friends.

Graduating from high school that year, a year early, he began playing freeroll tournaments online hoping to emerge into real money poker.

In doing so, he turned "free" money into a six-figure bankroll without ever making a single deposit.

From the ages of 18-20, Somerville added live tournaments to his online schedule where he was legally able to do so.

He has played at the World Series of Poker every year since turning 21, as well as many other tournaments around the world, gaining increasing success and notoriety with each year.

In 2008, Somerville joined the PokerVT training team as an instructor in the advanced poker tournament arena.

In 2008, Somerville played his first World Series of Poker schedule, cashing in three No Limit Hold'em events for $16,027.

In 2009, he cashed his first Spring Championship of Online Poker event earning $35,140 for a 20th-place finish and cashed in five World Championship of Online Poker events, including one final table, for a combined $21,760.

In 2009, he cashed in 3 No-Limit Hold'em events for $311,786 with 2 final table finishes.

In April 2009, Somerville placed 19th in the €10,000 EPT No Limit Hold'em Grand Final in Monte Carlo for $68,372.

In 2010, he won his first SCOOP event and cashed in five others, including another final table finish, for $448,421 and three WCOOP events for $19,100.

In 2010, he cashed in four No-Limit Hold'em events for $640,904 with 2 final table finishes and his first WSOP Main Event.

In January 2010, he placed 4th in the Poker Caribbean Adventures $5,000 No Limit Hold'em tournament for $81,480.

In April 2011, online poker was shut down in the USA.

In 2011, Jason won his first bracelet in a $1,000 No Limit Texas Hold'em event, defeating a field of 3,175 players, and cashed in one other No-Limit Hold'em event that year for $525,274.

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

Somerville posted his first YouTube series titled "Eating Cake" to YouTube on December 2, 2011.

In 2012, the World Poker Tour named him a "Ones to Watch" for their eleventh season (2012–2013).

In September 2012, Somerville cashed in six WCOOP events, including two final tables, for $31,453.

In 2012, he cashed in 3 No-Limit Hold'em events for $124,683, including his deepest yet run in the WSOP Main Event placing 69th of 6,598 players.

In February 2012, he made the final table, placing 6th, of the World Poker Tour Los Angeles Poker Classic $10,000 No Limit Hold'em tournament for $202,910.

The series lasted 30 episodes, with the final episode being published on February 13, 2012.

After Russell Thomas made the final table of the 2012 WSOP Main Event, he contacted Somerville to help him prepare during the three months leading up to the October 28 event.

In 2013, Jason Somerville signed as a sponsored Pro with Ultimate Poker, the official gaming partner of the UFC.

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.

On May 31, 2013, Somerville, Jonathan Little, and William Reynolds joined Antonio Esfandiari as the first members of the Ultimate Poker team.

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.

In October 2014, Somerville and Ultimate Poker parted ways.

The parting was due to financial consequences created by Ultimate Poker's withdrawal from the New Jersey market.

In June 2014, Somerville FYF'd a 100k High Roller tournament at the Bellagio and chopped into 4th place money for $1,327,352.

On February 27, 2015, Jason was announced as a Team Pokerstars Pro.

Somerville has over 250 online tournament "in the money" finishes, totaling over $2.2 million in online tournament winnings.

Overall, as of 2020, Jason Somerville has cashed in 28 World Series events for a total of $1,733,859.