| Jonathan Little | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Fiery Justice Jcardshark |
| Born | December 22, 1984 (age 36) Pensacola, Florida, U.S |
| World Series of Poker | |
| Bracelet(s) | None |
| Money finish(es) | 26 |
| Highest ITM Main Event finish | 490, 2014 |
| World Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | 2 |
| Final table(s) | 5 |
| Money finish(es) | 26 |
| European Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | None |
| Final table(s) | None |
| Money finish(es) | 2 |
Jonathan Little has successfully settled and tried cases for his clients and is devoted to representing statewide, national, and international media and communications companies. View Jonathan Little's business profile as Account Manager at Koito Europe Limited. Find Jonathan's email address, phone number, work history, and more. WPT Career Highlights Value Rank; Career Earnings: $4,005,439: 10: Cashes: 28: 5: Final Tables: 5: 44: Titles: 2: 10.
Jonathan Little
Jonathan Little (born December 22, 1984 in Pensacola, Florida) 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[1] and won the WPT Season VI Player of the Year award.[2]
Biography[edit]
The son of Samuel Little and Orelia “Jean” Dorsey, Little was a student at the University of West Florida studying psychology when he began playing poker with friends. As his interest in poker grew, it led him to study many books on poker.[2] 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.[2]
Poker[edit]
Little is a successful professional poker player who has played online under the screen names 'FieryJustice', 'Jcardshark', and 'JonLittle'.
Jonathan Little on Live No-Limit Cash Games, Volume 1 outlines how I thrive as a live cash game player. I explain my default strategies as well as the adjustments I make based on my opponents’ strategies in order to crush the games. Jonathan Little: $2.5 Million Year Vaults Him Into Player of the Year Title Race / Mike Vela Captures World Poker Finals Title and $1.7 Million / Crushing Wild No-limit Hold'em Satellites (Card Player, December 19, 2007).
Little posts a weekly educational poker blog and hosts a weekly podcast at his personal site, JonathanLittlePoker.com.
Little was a participant in the now defunct online poker training site called SNGIcons.com.[3] Little has since created his own poker training websites, PokerCoaching.com and FloatTheTurn.com[4]
Little creates poker training hand-packs™ for Insta Poker, a mobile-only poker strategy game on iPhone, iPod and iPad.
World Championship of Online Poker[edit]
At the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker, 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 BaseballPitcherOrel 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).[5] This win brings Little's total online cashes on Pokerstars to over $280,000.
Full Tilt[edit]
In March 2008, Full Tilt Poker announced it had dropped Little from its group of sponsored professionals for violating its terms and conditions by allowing other people to play his Full Tilt account.[6][7] Via his blog, Little later accepted responsibility for his actions and issued an apology to Full Tilt.[8]
World Poker Tour[edit]
Little finished fifth in the World Poker Tour (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.[3]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 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.[1][9]
World Series of Poker[edit]
Little has cashed 30 times at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). In 2010, he cashed 5 times, including a 3rd-place finish in Event # 53, the Limit Hold'em Shootout for $73,218. In 2013, he cashed 5 times, including a 3rd-place finish in Event # 32, the No-Limit Hold 'Em/Six Handed $5,000 buy-in for $238,833, as well as twice at the WSOPE. In 2015, he cashed 4 times, including a 6th-place finish in Event # 25, Eight-Handed $5,000 buy-in for $85,616. In 2016 he cashed in 5 events for $63,231 - including a tag team event with his mother and father as partners.
His lifetime winnings at the WSOP total $696,841.[10]
As of February 2019, his total live tournament winnings exceed $6,800,000.[11]
Personal life[edit]
Little married on August 1, 2015 to Amie Broder. His best man was fellow poker player, Shannon Shorr. When Little is not traveling the live poker circuit, he teaches his students how to improve their poker strategies at PokerCoaching.com.
Bibliography[edit]
- Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker, Volume 1: Fundamentals and How to Handle Varying Stack Sizes (2011) ISBN978-1904468561
- Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker, Volume 2: Stages of the Tournament (2012) ISBN978-1904468585
- Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker, Volume 3: The Complete Workout (2013) ISBN978-1904468950
- Positive Poker: A Modern Psychological Approach to Mastering Your Mental Game (2013)
- The Main Event with Jonathan Little: In-Depth Analysis of 54 Poker Hands from my WSOP Main Event (2014) ISBN978-1500766375
- Jonathan Little on Live No-Limit Cash Games, Volume 1: The Theory (2014) ISBN978-1909457232
- Jonathan Little on Live No-Limit Cash Games, Volume 2: The Practice (2015) ISBN978-1904468950
- Strategies for Beating Small Stakes Poker Tournaments (2015) ISBN978-1508660200
- Jonathan Little's Excelling at No-Limit Hold'em: Leading poker experts discuss how to study, play and master NLHE (2015) ISBN978-1909457447
- Strategies for Beating Small Stakes Poker Cash Games (2015) ISBN978-1518655388
- Peak Poker Performance: How to bring your 'A' game to every session (2016) ISBN978-1-909457-50-8
- Bluffs: How to Intelligently Apply Aggression to Increase Your Profits from Poker (2016) ISBN978-1537130231
References[edit]
- ^ abRodriguez, Julio. (November 12, 2008). 'WPT: Jonathan Little Wins the 2008 Foxwoods World Poker Finals'. CardPlayer.com. Retrieved November 12, 2008.
- ^ abcworldpokertour.com – profile – Jonathan Little
- ^ abcardplayer.com profile – Jonathan Little
- ^Arnett, Kristy (December 30, 2009). 'Poker Strategy -- Jon Little Discusses Taking a Beat Little Analyzes a Cash-Game Hand'. CardPlayer.com. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
- ^Green, Shawn Patrick (September 8, 2008). 'Online Poker: WCOOP High Roller Event has a Winner'. CardPlayer.com. Retrieved September 8, 2008.
- ^Newell, Jennifer (2008-03-07), PokerWorks.com; http://pokerworks.com/poker-news/2008/03/07/full-tilt-ends-sponsorship-with-jonathan-little.html
- ^fulltiltpoker.com - Poker News
- ^http://mad-world.us/jonathan-little-fired-by-full-tilt-poker/
- ^WPT Live Updates (temp ref)Archived October 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^'Jonathan Little – WSOP Stats'. WSOP. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
- ^'Jonathan Little – Stats'. The Hendon Mob. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
External links[edit]
Jonathan Little Poker Coaching
Jonathan Little
He began his broadcasting career in 1962 at WLHA-FM, the student radio station of University of Wisconsin-Madison, spinning records on a weekly jazz music show. His professional career began at WSPT, Stevens Point in 1963, and then followed disc jockey/program director stints at WISM, Madison, WDUZ, Green Bay, and a ten-year run at WTSO/WZEE, Madison. Staying in Madison, he moved into general management, putting WMMM-FM on the air in 1991, and then at WOLX-FM from1995-1997. In 1998, he moved on to Troy Research, a radio, television and motion picture market research firm. Throughout his broadcast career, he was dedicated to the music of his times, especially that of aspiring local musical artists and groups, whose recordings he frequently included in his play lists, regardless of the formats with which he worked. He was honored with the Gavin Report’s Program Director of the Year award in 1987 and 1988; Billboard Magazine’s Operations Manager of the Year in 1988; WAMI’s Music Person of the Year Award in 2001, and the Madison Area Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.