{"id":71165,"date":"2019-05-01T14:55:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T14:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog?p=71165"},"modified":"2020-03-10T10:44:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T10:44:05","slug":"kevin-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/kevin-martin.html","title":{"rendered":"partypoker welcomes Kevin Martin to Team Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Popular Canadian one of early poker Twitch streamers<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>partypoker is delighted to welcome Twitch streaming ace, <strong>Kevin Martin<\/strong> to its ranks of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/p\/team-partypoker\/index\">Team Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An established name in the streaming world, Martin started out as a radio presenter before turning his hand to professional poker full time in 2014. Barely a year later Martin discovered the Twitch platform, proving to be the launch pad for his poker journey.<\/p>\n<p>Interspersed with a win in the Canadian version of reality TV show \u2018Big Brother\u2019, Martin has since gone on to amass a dedicated following that now stands over 80,000-strong thanks to his energetic on-screen demeanour, bolstered by a string of impressive tournament results.<\/p>\n<p>Martin joins fellow countrymen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/team-online.html\"><strong>Matt Staples<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/patrick-xxxmlgproxxx-tardif.html\"><strong>Patrick Tardif<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/travis-dramaticdegen-darroch.html\"><strong>Travis Darroch<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/ryan-rschoonbaert-schoonbaert.html\"><strong>Ryan Schoonbaert<\/strong><\/a> on the team, with Matt\u2019s elder brother and streaming pioneer, Jaime set to become the latest member this Saturday, May 4, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The creation of Team Online forms part of a wider company strategy earmarked for the following weeks and months with the focus on streaming quality, engaging content across partypoker\u2019s main Twitch channel. In February 2019, the site announced a partnership with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/partypoker-becomes-official-sponsor-of-the-thirst-lounge.html\"><strong>The Thirst Lounge<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d a Twitch streaming channel launched in 2016 by high stakes player, <strong>Bill Perkins<\/strong> that encourages viewers to \u201clive their best life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plans also include a new partypoker high stakes cash game that will see some of the biggest names in poker invited to trade blows on the site\u2019s virtual cash game tables, streamed live.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, various current members of Team partypoker including <strong>Fedor Holz<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/p\/team-partypoker\/patrick-leonard\"><strong>Patrick Leonard<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/p\/team-partypoker\/ludovic-geilich\"><strong>Ludovic Geilich<\/strong><\/a> will alternate in hosting partypoker Twitch streaming sessions, focusing on a range of poker topics.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Martin\u2019s Twitch account can be found at <strong>Twitch.tv\/KevinMartin<\/strong> and he will playing at the online tables as <strong>\u201cKevinMartin\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Ready to join the party?<\/h3>\n<p>If you\u2019re ready to jump into the action, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>click here to download partypoker and get started<\/strong>!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you already have an account with us, click here to <a href=\"https:\/\/promo.partypoker.com\/en\/promo\/launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>open partypoker and hit the tables!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Canadian one of early poker Twitch streamers partypoker is delighted to welcome Twitch streaming ace, Kevin Martin to its ranks of Team Online. An established name in the streaming world, Martin started out as a radio presenter before turning his hand to professional poker full time in 2014. Barely a year later Martin discovered<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/kevin-martin.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":71166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1219],"tags":[2012,1652,865],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71165"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81198,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71165\/revisions\/81198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71165"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=71165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}