Jaime Staples

Jaime Staples (born May 27, 1991) is a poker player from Alberta, Canada who specializes in live streaming of online multi-table tournaments on Twitch. He has over 150,000 followers on Twitch. Staples primarily plays on PartyPoker, having become a PartyPoker Pro on May 4, 2019, after being sponsored by rival site PokerStars from 2015 to 2019.

Staples first entered the public eye in 2011, as a guest on the Badugi All-Stars podcast. In September 2016, Staples moved from his home city of Calgary, Alberta, then to Montreal, Quebec, along with his brother Matt and his good friend, Big Brother Canada contestant Kevin Martin. All three stream poker regularly on Twitch. Staples has streamed from various locations around the world, including Canada, Croatia, Wales, British Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, Germany, Scotland, England, Iceland and Malta. He is currently streaming from Montreal.

As of 2024, his online tournament cashes exceed $150,000. Staples concentrates on streaming and playing online, rather than live tournaments.

Personal life

In August 2016, he began daily vlogging, documenting aspects of his life as a poker player, as well as his attempts to lose weight and quit smoking.

Staples is the oldest of four siblings: Chris, Matt and Amy. On March 25, 2018, Staples and his brother Matt won a $150,000 prop bet with Bill Perkins by weighing within one pound of each other precisely a year after the commencement of the bet.

They later bet $50,000 at 3:1 odds to get below 10% body fat, which was unsuccessful.

Staples got engaged to his long-term girlfriend, Rebecca Hardisty, on November 22, 2018. The couple met through their shared interest in online poker.

In October 2023, Staples publicly disclosed a years-long struggle with disordered eating that began after the weight-loss bets, including a 2019 hospitalization in the Bahamas, and said he had been diagnosed with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID).