Jonathan Little
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Jonathan Little is an American
professional poker
player who won both the World Poker Tour
's Season VI
Mirage Poker Showdown and Season VII
Foxwoods World Poker Finals and won the WPT Season VI Player of the Year award.
studying psychology
when he began playing poker with friends. As his interest in poker grew, it led him to study many books on poker, such as The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky
. After earning an initial bankroll of $35,000 online over a six month period, he decided to drop out of college and play poker professionally.
Little was a participant in the now defunct online poker training site called SNGIcons.com. Little has since created his own poker training website, FloatTheTurn.com
playing under his PokerStars
screen name "Jcardshark" Little finished 7th place in the $10,300 buy-in (event #5), earning $107,535 at a final table consisting of other well known players like Major League Baseball
Pitcher
Orel Hershiser
(O. Hershiser), 2003 World Series of Poker
Main Event Champion Chris Moneymaker
(Money800) online pros Nick Niergarth (gbmantis), Greg Hobson (DuckU), Scott Dorin (dorinvandy) who won the event and the European Poker Tour
Season IV Grand Final Champion Glen Chorny
(Choron). This win brings Little's total online cashes on Pokerstars to over $280,000.
announced it had dropped Little from its group of sponsored professionals for violating its terms and conditions. The violation of Full Tilt's terms and condition was a result of Little allowing other people to play his Full Tilt account. Via his blog, Little later accepted responsibility for his actions and issued an apology to Full Tilt.
and Andrew Robl.
(WPT) PokerStars
.com Caribbean Poker Adventure
Championship winning $317,000 and went to win the WPT Mirage Poker Showdown title, earning $1,091,295 the final table was made of four other professional poker players, Cory Carroll
who finished runner-up, Darrell Dicken
(3rd), Phil Ivey
(5th) and Amnon Filippi
(6th). In November 2007 he finished runner-up to Scott Clements
in the WPT North American Poker Championship, where he earned an additional $715,702.
Jonathan Little is the WPT Season VI Player of the Year.
In November 2008, Little won the WPT Foxwoods World Poker Finals
for his second WPT title after defeating professional poker player Jonathan Jaffe during heads-up play. The final table which included professional poker players Mike Matusow
who finished 6th and David Pham
who finished 4th. The match broke the record for longest WPT final table at 275 hands and longest WPT heads-up match with 170 hands.
(WSOP). In 2010, he had his best year, cashing a personal best 5 times. His highest finish at the World Series is a 3rd place cash in the 2010 Limit Hold'em Shootout Event # 53 for $73,218. His lifetime winnings at the WSOP total $148,193.
As of 2010, his total live tournament winnings exceed $4,300,000.
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United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
professional poker
Poker
Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...
player who won both the World Poker Tour
World Poker Tour
The World Poker Tour is a series of international poker tournaments and associated television series broadcasting the final table of each tournament. It was started in the United States by attorney/television producer Steven Lipscomb, who served as CEO of WPT Enterprises , the firm that...
's Season VI
World Poker Tour season 6 results
Below are the results of season six of the World Poker Tour .Towards the end of season 6 the World Poker Tour announced that they would award a Tiffany designed titanium and diamond championship bracelet for all previous 96 players....
Mirage Poker Showdown and Season VII
World Poker Tour season 7 results
- Spanish Championship:* Casino: Casino Barcelona, Barcelona * Buy-in: €5,000* 5-Day Event: Friday, May 23, 2008 to Tuesday, May 27, 2008* Number of Entries: 253* Total Prize Pool: €1,278,396...
Foxwoods World Poker Finals and won the WPT Season VI Player of the Year award.
Biography
Little was a student at the University of West FloridaUniversity of West Florida
The University of West Florida, also known as West Florida and UWF, is a mid-sized public university located in Pensacola, Florida, United States. UWF is a member institution of the State University System of Florida. The University of West Florida is a Research University, which specializes in...
studying psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
when he began playing poker with friends. As his interest in poker grew, it led him to study many books on poker, such as The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky
David Sklansky
-Life and career:Sklansky was born and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, where he graduated from Teaneck High School in 1966. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, but left before graduation. He returned to Teaneck and passed multiple Society of Actuaries exams by the time he was 20, and worked...
. After earning an initial bankroll of $35,000 online over a six month period, he decided to drop out of college and play poker professionally.
Online poker
Little is a successful online poker player playing under the screen names "FieryJustice", "Jcardshark", and "JonLittle".Little was a participant in the now defunct online poker training site called SNGIcons.com. Little has since created his own poker training website, FloatTheTurn.com
World Championship of Online Poker
At the 2008 World Championship of Online PokerWorld Championship of Online Poker
The World Championship of Online Poker is an online poker tournament series sponsored by PokerStars. It is played on the PokerStars site in September....
playing under his PokerStars
PokerStars
PokerStars is the largest online poker cardroom in the world. PokerStars' satellite tournaments produced the 2003 World Series of Poker champion, Chris Moneymaker. 1983 champion Tom McEvoy, 2005 champion Joe Hachem, 2009 champion Joe Cada and 2010 champion Jonathan Duhamel and others also represent...
screen name "Jcardshark" Little finished 7th place in the $10,300 buy-in (event #5), earning $107,535 at a final table consisting of other well known players like Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
Pitcher
Pitcher
In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...
Orel Hershiser
Orel Hershiser
Orel Leonard Hershiser IV is a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. He is currently an analyst for Baseball Tonight and Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN and a professional poker player for...
(O. Hershiser), 2003 World Series of Poker
2003 World Series of Poker
-Preliminary events:-Main Event:There were 839 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter what was the largest poker tournament ever played in a brick and mortar casino at the time...
Main Event Champion Chris Moneymaker
Chris Moneymaker
Christopher Bryan Moneymaker is an American poker player who won the main event at the 2003 World Series of Poker . His 2003 win is said to have revolutionized poker because he was the first person to become a world champion by qualifying at an online poker site...
(Money800) online pros Nick Niergarth (gbmantis), Greg Hobson (DuckU), Scott Dorin (dorinvandy) who won the event and the European Poker Tour
European Poker Tour
The Pokerstars European Poker Tour is a series of poker tournaments similar to those in the World Poker Tour , created by John Duthie, winner of the inaugural Poker Million tournament. It began in 2004 as part of the worldwide explosion in Texas Hold 'em popularity...
Season IV Grand Final Champion Glen Chorny
Glen Chorny
Glen Chorny is a Canadian poker player from Waterloo, Ontario. He is currently a student at Wilfrid Laurier University and has been playing professionally since January 2008....
(Choron). This win brings Little's total online cashes on Pokerstars to over $280,000.
Full Tilt
In March 2008, Full Tilt PokerFull Tilt Poker
Full Tilt Poker is an online poker card room that opened in June 2004 with the involvement of poker professionals Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, Andy Bloch, Mike Matusow, Jennifer Harman and Chris Ferguson...
announced it had dropped Little from its group of sponsored professionals for violating its terms and conditions. The violation of Full Tilt's terms and condition was a result of Little allowing other people to play his Full Tilt account. Via his blog, Little later accepted responsibility for his actions and issued an apology to Full Tilt.
Victory Poker
Little is currently affiliated with Victory Poker and is a Victory Poker Pro. Little plays under the screen name "JonLittle". Other Victory Poker Pros include Antonio EsfandiariAntonio Esfandiari
Antonio Esfandiari is a professional poker player, known for his elaborate chip tricks.-Early life:When he was 9 years old his family moved to San Jose, California...
and Andrew Robl.
World Poker Tour
Little finished fifth in the World Poker TourWorld Poker Tour
The World Poker Tour is a series of international poker tournaments and associated television series broadcasting the final table of each tournament. It was started in the United States by attorney/television producer Steven Lipscomb, who served as CEO of WPT Enterprises , the firm that...
(WPT) PokerStars
PokerStars
PokerStars is the largest online poker cardroom in the world. PokerStars' satellite tournaments produced the 2003 World Series of Poker champion, Chris Moneymaker. 1983 champion Tom McEvoy, 2005 champion Joe Hachem, 2009 champion Joe Cada and 2010 champion Jonathan Duhamel and others also represent...
.com Caribbean Poker Adventure
Caribbean Poker Adventure
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is an annual televised poker tournament. The event was first held in 2004 and was originally co-sponsored by PokerStars and the World Poker Tour. In 2008, the event moved from the WPT to the European Poker Tour...
Championship winning $317,000 and went to win the WPT Mirage Poker Showdown title, earning $1,091,295 the final table was made of four other professional poker players, Cory Carroll
Cory Carroll
Cory Carroll is a Canadian professional poker player, who is a two time final tablist of World Poker Tour Championships and the winner of a World Series of Poker Circuit Championship Event.-Online poker:...
who finished runner-up, Darrell Dicken
Darrell Dicken
Darrell T. Dicken is an American professional poker player from Waterloo, Iowa, who has cashed at seven world poker tour championship events, making the final 6-handed table in two of them....
(3rd), Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey
Phillip Dennis "Phil" Ivey Jr. is an American professional poker player who has won eight World Series of Poker bracelets, one World Poker Tour title and appeared at nine World Poker Tour final tables...
(5th) and Amnon Filippi
Amnon Filippi
Amnon Eric Filippi is a professional poker player based in New York City.Filippi's significant achievement to date was his first place finish in the 2005 $10,000 No Limit Texas hold 'em Bellagio Challenge Cup poker tournament held at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada from July 18, 2005 through...
(6th). In November 2007 he finished runner-up to Scott Clements
Scott Clements
Scott Clements is a professional poker player from Mount Vernon, Washington, United States, who has won titles in both World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker events....
in the WPT North American Poker Championship, where he earned an additional $715,702.
Jonathan Little is the WPT Season VI Player of the Year.
In November 2008, Little won the WPT Foxwoods World Poker Finals
World Poker Tour season 7 results
- Spanish Championship:* Casino: Casino Barcelona, Barcelona * Buy-in: €5,000* 5-Day Event: Friday, May 23, 2008 to Tuesday, May 27, 2008* Number of Entries: 253* Total Prize Pool: €1,278,396...
for his second WPT title after defeating professional poker player Jonathan Jaffe during heads-up play. The final table which included professional poker players Mike Matusow
Mike Matusow
Michael Matusow is an American professional poker player, residing in Henderson, Nevada. Matusow's nickname of "The Mouth" reflects his reputation for trash-talking at the poker table...
who finished 6th and David Pham
David Pham
David Pham , is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player from Bell Gardens, California with two World Series of Poker bracelets and has made seven final tables at the World Poker Tour.- Early life :...
who finished 4th. The match broke the record for longest WPT final table at 275 hands and longest WPT heads-up match with 170 hands.
World Series of Poker
Little has cashed 12 times at the World Series of PokerWorld Series of Poker
The World Series of Poker is a world-renowned series of poker tournaments held annually in Las Vegas and, since 2005, sponsored by Harrah's Entertainment...
(WSOP). In 2010, he had his best year, cashing a personal best 5 times. His highest finish at the World Series is a 3rd place cash in the 2010 Limit Hold'em Shootout Event # 53 for $73,218. His lifetime winnings at the WSOP total $148,193.
As of 2010, his total live tournament winnings exceed $4,300,000.
Ship It Holla Ballas
Little is a member of the "Ship It Holla Ballas" which is a group of young professional poker players dedicated to enjoying the affluence and benefits accorded highly successful players. Other members include Andrew Robl and Phil GalfondPhil Galfond
Phil Galfond is an American professional poker player. Galfond won a World Series of Poker bracelet in the $5,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha with Rebuys event at the 2008 World Series of Poker...
.