Quote Originally Posted by Sanlmar View Post

This signing is a sign of the poker as fun & entertainment movement. Which is good for the game and the only way to grow.

Is it possible Somerville will be the only "poker pro" signed by Stars this year? Somerville is prolly making more income from the entertainment and sponsorship end than poker.

More fresh money will join Stars cause of StickyRice types or Somerville than Dan Cates or Barry Greenstein.
Boom.

Wall Street Journal
"Amazon's Twitch Site Bets on Poker"

The credit Somerville with understanding the entertainment aspect and acknowledge nothing new ever happened with cable poker programming after invention of hole-card-cam.

PokerNews reprints all the salient points.

PokerStars didn't sign a poker pro as much as they signed a Twitch star.