Jason Somerville, Poker Pro, discussed his early years in a recent interview about the time he used to teach karate to 100 tiny tots (ages 3-6). It ended when he found himself bedridden, at age 18, with Ulcerative colitis. It was then he decided to follow his heart and become a poker player.
He grew up in Stoneybrook Long Island. He began to teach karate at age 13. It was the only job he has ever held thus far. To get to a teaching level he began working in the office at age 12. He even cleaned the floors and scrubbed toilets.
Eventually he “climbed the ladder” and started helping out in classes before he was offered his own class with 5 kids, which due to his own marketing ventures he raised to 100 kids a year later.
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