Jonathan Little

Little was born on December 22, 1984 in Pensacola, Florida.{{Cite web |title=Jonathan Little |url=https://www.pokernews.com/poker-players/jonathan-little/ |access-date=2024-10-18 |website=www.pokernews.com}} He 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.{{Cite web |title=Jonathan Little |url=https://www.worldpokertour.com/player/jonathan-little/ |access-date=December 18, 2023 |website=World Poker Tour |language=en-US}} After earning an initial bankroll of $350,000 online over a six-month period, he decided to drop out of college and play poker professionally.

Little is a successful professional poker player who has played online under the screen names "FieryJustice", "Jcardshark", and "JonLittle".

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.{{Cite web |title=Jonathan Little |url=https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-players/34909-jonathan-little |access-date=2024-04-07 |website=CardPlayer.com}} Little has since created his own poker training websites, [http://pokercoaching.com/blog PokerCoaching.com] and FloatTheTurn.com{{cite web |url=http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/8232-poker-strategy-jon-little-discusses-taking-a-beat |title=Poker Strategy -- Jon Little Discusses Taking a Beat Little Analyzes a Cash-Game Hand |accessdate=July 28, 2010 |last=Arnett |first=Kristy |date=December 30, 2009 |work=CardPlayer.com}}

Little creates poker training hand-packs™ for Insta Poker, a mobile-only poker strategy game on iPhone, iPod and iPad.

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 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).{{cite web |url=http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/article/5005/online-poker-wcoop-high-roller-event-has-a-winner |title=Online Poker: WCOOP High Roller Event has a Winner |accessdate=September 8, 2008 |last=Green |first=Shawn Patrick |date=September 8, 2008 |work=CardPlayer.com}} This win brings Little's total online cashes on Pokerstars to over $280,000.

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.Newell, Jennifer (March 7, 2008), PokerWorks.com; http://pokerworks.com/poker-news/2008/03/07/full-tilt-ends-sponsorship-with-jonathan-little.html[http://pokerforums.fulltiltpoker.com/viewtopic.php?t=48973 fulltiltpoker.com - Poker News]{{Dead link|date=November 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Via his blog, Little later accepted responsibility for his actions and issued an apology to Full Tilt.{{Cite web |url=http://mad-world.us/jonathan-little-fired-by-full-tilt-poker/ |title=Jonathan Little Fired by Full Tilt Poker | Mad World of Poker |access-date=July 16, 2010 |archive-date=January 7, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107095852/http://mad-world.us/jonathan-little-fired-by-full-tilt-poker/ |url-status=dead }}

Little finished fifth in the World Poker Tour (WPT) PokerStars.com Caribbean Poker Adventure Championship winning $317,873 and went to win the WPT Mirage Poker Showdown title, earning $1,066,295.{{Cite web |title=PokerStars Caribbean Adventure - PCA 2007, WPT Championship Event - No Limit Hold'em |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=18298 |access-date=March 30, 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}} 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).{{Cite web |title=Mirage Poker Showdown, No Limit Hold'em - Championships |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=26736 |access-date=March 30, 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}} In November 2007 he finished runner-up to Scott Clements in the WPT North American Poker Championship, where he earned an additional $738,821.{{Cite web |title=North American Poker Championships, No Limit Hold'em - Championship Event |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=27397 |access-date=March 30, 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}} Little won the WPT Season VI Player of the Year.{{Cite web |date=April 23, 2008 |title=WPT Player of the Year Jonathan Little WPT World Championship Level 28: 200,000-400,000 |url=https://www.worldpokertour.com/live_update/wpt-player-of-the-year-jonathan-little-wpt-world-championship-level-28-200000-400000/ |access-date=March 30, 2024 |website=World Poker Tour |language=en-US}}

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.{{Cite web |title=2008 World Poker Finals, No Limit Hold'em - Championship Event |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=33040 |access-date=March 30, 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}} The match broke the record for longest WPT final table at 275 hands and longest WPT heads-up match with 170 hands.[http://liveupdates.worldpokertour.com/tournament/?x=updatesnews WPT Live Updates (temp ref)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081026030525/http://liveupdates.worldpokertour.com/tournament/?x=updatesnews |date=October 26, 2008 }}

Little has cashed 50 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 $890,916 as of 2023.{{Cite web |title=Jonathan Little |url=http://www.wsop.com/players/playerProfile.asp?playerID=11464&pagecolor=FFFFFF |access-date=July 11, 2013 |website=WSOP.com}}

As of 2024, his total live tournament winnings exceed $8,800,000.{{Cite web |title=Jonathan Little's profile on The Hendon Mob |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=54704 |access-date=December 18, 2023 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}

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.

• Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker, Volume 1: Fundamentals and How to Handle Varying Stack Sizes (2011) {{ISBN|978-1904468561}}
• Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker, Volume 2: Stages of the Tournament (2012) {{ISBN|978-1904468585}}
• Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker, Volume 3: The Complete Workout (2013) {{ISBN|978-1904468950}}
• 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) {{ISBN|978-1500766375}}
• Jonathan Little on Live No-Limit Cash Games, Volume 1: The Theory (2014) {{ISBN|978-1909457232}}
• Jonathan Little on Live No-Limit Cash Games, Volume 2: The Practice (2015) {{ISBN|978-1904468950}}
• Strategies for Beating Small Stakes Poker Tournaments (2015) {{ISBN|978-1508660200}}
• Jonathan Little's Excelling at No-Limit Hold'em: Leading poker experts discuss how to study, play and master NLHE (2015) {{ISBN|978-1909457447}}
• Strategies for Beating Small Stakes Poker Cash Games (2015) {{ISBN|978-1518655388}}
• Peak Poker Performance: How to bring your 'A' game to every session (2016) {{ISBN|978-1-909457-50-8}}
• Bluffs: How to Intelligently Apply Aggression to Increase Your Profits from Poker (2016) {{ISBN|978-1537130231}}

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20150910165223/http://jonathanlittlepoker.com/ Official Website]
• [http://pokercoaching.com/ PokerCoaching.com]
• [http://www.instapokerpro.com/pros/jonathanlittle.html Insta Poker]
• [http://www.pokerlistings.com/poker-player-interviews/wpt/season6/fieryjustice-prevails-jonathan-little-wins-the-mirage-poker-show Pokerlistings.com interview]
• [http://www.cardplayer.com/magazine/article/17186 CardPlayer.com – 2007 a Big Year for Little]
• [https://cardplayerlifestyle.com/top-pair-interview-2-time-wpt-champion-jonathan-little/ Jonathan Little Interview (audio + transcript)]
• [https://www.mypokercoaching.com/jonathan-little-interview-poker-live-games/ Jonathan Little Interview - Poker Journey and Live Games Tips]
• [https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-players/34909-jonathan-little Card Player profile]
• [https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=54704 Hendon Mob profile]
• [https://www.pokernews.com/poker-players/jonathan-little/ PokerNews profile]
• [https://www.worldpokertour.com/player/jonathan-little/ WPT profile]
• [https://www.wsop.com/players/profile/?playerid=11464 WSOP profile]

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