Jan 29, 2015 Amazon's Twitch Interactive, which hosts live video broadcasts of people playing videogames, said Thursday it averaged 100 million viewers a. Poker streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.

Tweet with a location. You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. The Wall Street Journal discussed the money laundering laws by writing, “online cash will now be regulated in a similar manner as traditional money-order providers such as Western Union. They would have new bookkeeping requirements and mandatory reporting for transactions of more than $10,000.”. But a story in the Wall Street Journal this week made it clear that poker is an area of huge possible growth for Twitch. (Check out our Users’ Guide to Poker on Twitch). The signing of Somerville represents a new tack for PokerStars, which clearly intends to expand its reach through Somerville and Twitch.

Amazon-owned live streaming video platform Twitch.tv keeps gaining traction in the poker world, as online poker specialist Griffin Benger and Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu joined the pool of poker pros on the platform.

'Thanks to Jamie Staples for helping me set up Twitch to watch live poker, and to Jason Somerville for making this platform cool,' Negreanu wrote on his Twitter profile right after his first Twitch live stream stream on Tuesday, April 14.

Negreanu who already has more than 4,000 subscribers to his Twitch account, live streamed some play-money games on PokerStars, interacting with his viewers by actively participating in the discussion in the site's chatbox.

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Talkative and outspoken by nature, the six-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner used the opportunity to comment on the hands he played, and even showed parts of his house and his dog, Mushu, to the viewers.

'It was fun,' Negreanu commented on his first adventure on Twitch. He also confirmed his intention to head back to the site for new streaming sessions in the near future.

During the past months, work done by poker players to promote the game on the platform has not gone unnoticed. PokerStars, the world's biggest poker room, decided to add Somerville to its team, and subsequently named Staples a 'Friend of PokerStars.'

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Counter Strike and Poker Champ Griffin Benger Lands on Twitch

Those interested in learning how to get better at poker from the best players around should definitely keep an eye on Benger's newly-launched Twitch account.

A former professional video game player and Counter Strike legend, Benger is a successful poker player with online winnings totaling more than $6 million, according to PocketFives), and live tournament winnings in excess of $1.3 million, according to the HendonMob.

In his streams, the Toronto-based poker pro, who recently won the PokerStars Shark Cage television show for $1 million, entertained his viewers with action-heavy sessions while talking about his thinking process behind various decisions. He also shared some details about his private life.

During his third live stream on Twitch, Benger offered the public the opportunity to watch him play the Super Tuesday and other high-stakes games on a seven-minute delay.

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It’s (almost) always a big boost for the game when the mainstream media take an interest in the big names and stories bouncing around the poker world, and this week it was 14-times WSPOP bracelet winner Phil ‘PokerBrat’ Hellmuth who made the pages of the Wall Street Journal.

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The US business-focused, international daily newspaper, based in New York City, profiled Hellmuth on the back of his recently released autobiography – the eponymously-titled (if we include nicknames that is) ‘Poker Brat’ which sees Phil chart his life from tough beginnings at school to fame and multi-millionaire fortune at the poker tables.

Surprisingly, Hellmuth claims he is actually trying to change his behaviour, outbursts such as his recent bust-out of the Main Event in Vegas “less than 1% of my life,” he says, although such temper-tantrums account for a much-higher percentage of YouTube clips featuring him for sure.

“I talk about how I’ve changed,” he told the Journal, “but then I still lose it” – achieving that inner calm not always achievable when the cards go against him, and he reveals that ‘back in the day’ the TV shows which brought poker to an ever-wider audience insisted that he stick to his stroppy outbursts. “What do you mean?” Hellmuth asked the TV people. “We need you to be the poker brat,” they told him.

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It’s not a strategy to put opponents on tilt, or annoy people or to show off – it’s just how he is sometimes. And how he is has made him one of the most iconic poker professionals in the history of the game, able to charge $50,000 in appearance fees.

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It’s a far cry from his beginnings when he almost quit just weeks into his ‘pro career’ in Vegas, his bankroll wiped out and not even having the air fare home, his father’s description of his ‘career choice’ an undeniably unsupportive:

“There’s no such thing as being a professional poker player. That’s like being a drug dealer.”

And bizarrely, according to Hellmuth, the slump which hit him at the end of the millennium ended when he changed his e-mail address! Swapping “tryingtobethegreatest” to what the journal calls ‘the more self-assured’ “beingthegreatest”, was all it took:

“I just wasn’t winning anything,” but after the email change “I just started smashing,” he told the newspaper, adding: “I’m a big believer in the power of your own words.”

Hellmuth’s words will always carry weight in the poker community, regardless of his at-times childish behaviour, but seeing them reach a much-wider audience is confirmation that poker still has an appeal beyond those who spend their lives on the green felt.

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