Twitch Influence in the Poker World Grows With Launch of PocketFives TV

Twitch.tv is providing online poker with a new recreational player audience.

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On Sunday, PocketFives launched its first live broadcast on video streaming service Twitch.
The show “PocketFives TV” is a new venture for the popular online poker forum. The first broadcast took place for just one hour, and was available from the forum’s homepage.
Last September, Twitch was bought by Amazon for $970 million. The video streaming service grew explosively after it focused on live broadcasts by gamers. Followers of “celebrity” gamers can chat interactively with the broadcaster during the live stream.

On Sunday, PocketFives launched its first live broadcast on the video streaming service Twitch.

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Jocelyn Wood, Editor Joss is a graduate in English from the University of Birmingham and has a Master’s Degree in Organisational Development from the University of Manchester. His career path has taken him from the British Army, through business & finance to seven years as a successful professional poker player. His experience of the European Union, law, accounting, finance, regulation and online poker provide the basis for his insights in the PRO specialist categories of Industry and Law & Regulation. As CEO he steered his own company through full Financial Services Authority regulation, and was asked by Morgan Stanley to take their UK mortgage business through the same process. Although British, he lives in Arequipa, Peru, set high in the mountains and surrounded by volcanoes. He is married to a Peruvian and has three children.

Article published on January 26, 2015.

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