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. 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.
Poker
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. Little has since created his own poker training websites, and FloatTheTurn.com Little creates poker training hand-packs™ for Insta Poker, a mobile-only poker strategy game on iPhone, iPod and iPad.
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. Via his blog, Little later accepted responsibility for his actions and issued an apology to Full Tilt.
Little finished fifth in the World Poker Tour 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, Phil Ivey, and Amnon Filippi. 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 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.
Little has cashed 30 times at the World Series of Poker. 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. As of February 2019, his total live tournament winnings exceed $6,800,000.
Personal life
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.
