As Kevin Martin becomes the third high profile star to leave PokerStars in less than a fortnight, Lee Davy ponders whether this is the end of the Twitch poker dream.

PokerStars continues to lessen their wage bill after news emerged that Kevin Martin will not be renewing his contract as a member of Team Pro. The news comes hot on the Jimmy Choos that Jaime Staples and Jeff Gross also left on a rocket ship destined for somewhere else.

When Martin joined PokerStars in 2016, the signing was a surprise to the poker community. The Canadian was a minor celebrity within those borders after winning the reality TV show Big Brother but was fiddling around at the $5 multi-table tournament (MTT) level.

Martin shared the news of his departure in a short video on Twitch where he was nothing but complimentary towards PokerStars for taking a punt on him when he was as competent at playing poker as I was at navigating my way around the Tokyo tube system.