Kevin Martin has joined GGPoker as part of the new GGSquad, a team of poker streamers who are tasked with engaging with the GGpoker community.
The GGSquad will sit along two additional groups of brand promoters called the GGHeroes and the GGCrew, as first revealed by PokerNews.
GGHeroes are the lead ambassadors such as Daniel Negreanu and Fedor Holz and the GGCrew will be one-off streams or YouTube videos creators on an ad-hoc basis.
All three new groups will focus on communicating with and growing the GGPoker audience across the globe.
The GGSquad is made up of six top poker streamers, including Martin. The Squad members include:
- Fernando Habegger aka JNandez
- Torsten Brinkmann aka jektisss
- Koray Turker aka KakiTee
- Michael Van Elsacker aka Easterdamnz
- Patrick Tardif akak IrEgption
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Martin was first a PokerStars ambassador from 2016 to 2019, as part of Team Online. He then signed to partypoker in 2019, before quitting four months later in September 2019. At that time, Martin also retired from poker streaming all together.
However, Martin collaborated with GGPoker this past summer during GG WSOP 2020 and as such has been lured out of retirement by the online poker operator.
As well as streaming poker action, the GGSquad will also host #SquadSessions starting at 10:00 ET every Saturday.
These chilled out Saturday streams will include “innovative tournaments and rewarding promotions.” A recent tweet from the GGPoker account shows that the GGSquad will also engage fans with more mainstream games like Among Us – Twitch’s top game that has taken the world by storm.
Martin now joins the small but growing list of “ambassadorship triple crowns,” moving through PokerStars to partypoker to GGPoker.
ElkY has had the same career progression, and former tennis champion Boris Becker has also been affiliated with the three operators.
GGPoker Ambassadors: Through PokerStars and Partypoker
| PokerStars | Partypoker | GGPoker | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Negreanu | June 2007 – May 2019 | - | Nov 2019 – |
| Felipe Ramos | July 2015 – Jan 2018 | Jan 2020 – | |
| ElkY Grospellier | June 2006 – Jan 2018 | Apr 2018 – April 2020 | April 2020 – |
| Boris Becker | 2007 – ? | Dec 2016 – ? | April 2020 – |
| Kevin Martin | 2016-Jan 2019 | May 2019 – Sept 2019 | Oct 2020 – |
You can watch Martin’s full interview with PokerNews where he talks about joining GGPoker below.
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