May 27, 2018
Earlier this week, Poker Central announced the PokerGO streaming schedule for the 2018 World Series of Poker, through which 16 final table broadcasts and wall-to-wall coverage of the Main Event will be broadcast, but the world’s most prestigious poker tournament series will also be streamed on Twitch. The company has confirmed that its Twitch stream […]
March 21, 2017
An ongoing and much publicised Twitter feud between US professional poker players Cate Hall and Mike Dentale culminated in a live poker battle this week watched by around 20,000 poker fans using the Twitch livestream feed. The feud started when Mike Dentale was critical of Cate Hall’s poker tactics in a major live tournament and […]
October 12, 2016
Partypoker officially launched its Twitch video platform channel earlier this week with poker professional and brand ambassador Patrick Leonard. The online poker firm expects to offer a full schedule containing all things online poker featuring partypoker host players, brand ambassadors and pros. Currently the operator is offering Thumping Thursdays with Adam Neal – IT5PAYDAY, Sunday […]
July 29, 2016
A Russian Twitch poker streamer using the interesting Internet pseudonym Solid Penis freaked out spectacularly when the game he was streaming on his aKTepnopHo Twitch account resulted in his winning a one-in-a-million Pokerstars Spin&Go jackpot of Euro 250,000 on a Euro 25 stake this week. His Twitch stream in Russian has been very professionally re-presented […]
October 6, 2015
The World Series of Poker has announced that this year’s streaming and live reportage on WSOP Europe has been contracted to Twitch and the German online publication Pokerfirma respectively. Whilst Twitch can now boast a well-proven record in online poker streaming, some reservations have been expressed regarding the appointment of Pokerfirma in preference to the […]
August 24, 2015
Pokerstars pro and Twitch streaming poker ace Jason Somerville (he can boast audiences of up to 3 million uniques) has accepted a sponsorship deal for an undisclosed amount from daily fantasy sports market leader DraftKings. The move took industry observers by surprise, given Somerville’s close relationship with Pokerstars, whose parent Amaya Inc. recently acquired its […]
August 8, 2015
Poker pro Jason Somerville has extended his partnership deal with the Twitch internet streaming service for a further two years after achieving growing numbers of viewers for his live online poker streaming show “Run It Up”. The new run commences August 16 and is expected to enhance already impressive viewership records which indicate that the […]
June 18, 2015
The recent banning by the Twitch streaming service of poker coach Casey “bigdogpckt5s” Jarzabek for inadvertently streaming some rather risque, decidedly non-poker content is perhaps another timely reminder to Twitch streamers that whatever you have on-screen or on-camera is being broadcast as long as the stream is active. This seemingly obvious fact has escaped the […]
May 20, 2015
Fans of the high stakes boom-and-bust excitement exemplified by Swedish online poker pro Viktor ‘Isildur1′ Blom have a treat in store next week, when this always exciting and entertaining nosebleed ace takes to the Twitch streaming channel. On Wednesday, May 27, Blom will stream a 10-hour session on Unibet Poker that will include a mix […]
April 16, 2015
International professional player and poker celebrity Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu took to Twitter this week to express his delight at the first successful screening of his new Twitch livestream channel, a project on which he received technical assistance from pioneer poker Twitcher Jason Somerville (see previous reports). The Kid had plenty to be pleased about […]