Jonathan Little

Jonathan Little
Little in 2019
Nickname(s)Fiery Justice
Jcardshark
BornDecember 22, 1984 (1984-12-22) (age 41)
Pensacola, Florida, U.S
World Series of Poker
Bracelet1
Final tables7
Money finishes60
Highest WSOP
Main Event finish		316th, 2024
World Poker Tour
Titles2
Final table5
Money finishes28
European Poker Tour
Title1
Final tables5
Money finishes13

Jonathan Little (born December 22, 1984) is an American professional poker player who won the World Poker Tour's Season VI Mirage Poker Showdown, the Season VII Foxwoods World Poker Finals, the WPT Season VI Player of the Year award, and the 2024 PokerGo Cup, and the 2019 GPI Poker Personality of the Year award.

Biography

Little was born on December 22, 1984 in Pensacola, Florida. 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. 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.

Poker

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

Little frequently posts educational training content on his Youtube channel which has over 240,000 subscribers, and also at his personal site, JonathanLittlePoker.com.

Little was a participant in the now defunct online poker training sites called SNGIcons.com and FloatTheTurn.com. Little has since created his own poker training website, PokerCoaching.com.

World Championship of Online Poker

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). This win brings Little's total online cashes on Pokerstars to over $280,000.

World Poker Tour

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. 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 $738,821. Little won 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.

World Series of Poker

As of 2025, Little has cashed 60 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. He won his first WSOP bracelet in a 2025 online event ($1,000 No Limit Hold'em - Freezeout). In 2025, Little won the $1,000 online WSOP bracelet event #9 for $90,663, and also took two seconds that year.

His lifetime winnings at the WSOP exceed $950,000 as of 2025.

As of 2025, his total live tournament winnings exceed $9,300,000.

Bibliography

References

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  15. ↑ WPT Live Updates (temp ref) Archived October 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
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