Meet the Pros / Jonathan Little

Jonathan Little

Live Tournament Poker Professional, Author and Coach

About Jonathan

Jonathan Little is a world-class poker professional who has accumulated over $5,000,000 in tournament earnings and was the World Poker Tour Season 6 Player of the Year. In 2007 he took fifth in the Poker Stars Caribbean Classic for $320,000. A month later he finished 35th in the L.A. Poker Classic for $35,000. His next big win came at the Bellagio where he took second place in a $3000 preliminary event, netting $147,000.

The largest score of Jonathan's career took place in March of 2007 when he won the Mirage Poker Showdown and $1,090,000. Jonathan followed this historic victory with a seventh place finish and $93,000 at the Gulf Coast Poker Championship at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi, Mississippi. Jonathan's next big score came at the WPT North American Poker Championship at Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls, where he finished second for $718,000.

In 2008, Jonathan was one of sixty-four professional and celebrity players invited to compete in the NBC Heads-Up Tournament. He bested Erik Seidel, Gabe Kaplan, and Greg Raymer before finally losing to eventual winner Chris Ferguson. This fifth place finish earned him $75,000. In November of 2008, Jonathan became the youngest person ever to win two WPT titles when he took down the World Poker Finals at Foxwoods. He bested a star-studded table, including Mike Matusow, David Pham, and Jonathan Jaffe, to bring home his second win of over $1,000,000.

Jonathan owns and operates FloatTheTurn.com, his poker training site where he teaches others how to win at various types of no-limit hold'em tournaments. He also wrote the best-selling books, Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker, Volume 1 and 2. He currently splits his time between Las Vegas and New York City.

Jonathans's Hand-Packs™

Fast Tournaments: Reaching the Final Table With a Big Stack

Optimize your game in fast tournaments where blinds are increasing fairly often. Learn how to modify your strategy as stack sizes fluctuate, as the tournament rapidly progresses, and as opponents quickly come and go. This Hand-Pack™ will teach you how to get to the final table with a large stack, giving you a great shot to win, instead of making it as a short stack, with a good chance of blinding off.

Fast Tournaments: Final Table Winning Strategies

This Hand-Pack includes a collection of 23 final table hands. First hand starts when 9 players are left out of about 200 in a live tournament starting with 3,000 chips. The payouts are deep, with first place getting most of the money. Follow Jonathan who starts as the chip leader, navigating all the way to face one opponent in a heads-up match. Learn the pro's strategies such as how to abuse mid stacked opponents, how to deal with short stacked all-ins and how to pick-up the limps and the blinds with no contest. Discover how the pros continuously accumulate chips while minimizing the risk of elimination.

Online Heads-up Tournament

This Hand-Pack includes 17 hands recently played by Jonathan at a $50 online heads-up tournament. Being consistently in the action, learn how to decieve your opponent in this exciting mind game. See how Jonathan maximizes position's advantage, steals a lot of pots while making sure not to go crazy bluffing away his stack.

Pre-flop Decisions In Early Stages of Tournaments

This Hand-Pack includes 50 hands where your only play is the pre-flop decision. The is where amateur players frequently make mistakes that put them in awkward positions or cause them to lose value after the flop. Learn how to combine your position, hand-strength and knowledge of your opponents to make the optimal decisions. See when you may need to fold QQ or KK in certain situations or re-raise with marginal hands such as A4 off suit in others.

European Tour: Critical Hands from Major Tournaments

This Hand-Pack contains 22 critical hands from Jonathan Little's recent trip to Europe, where he competed in several major poker tournaments. Every tournament has those few crucial hands, the ones that you look back on and replay in your head, over and over, long after the tournament has ended. They may include your bust-out hand, a timely double-up, or just a very marginal spot. Either way, they shaped the course of your tournament. This pack will take you through those key hands from several tournaments that Jonathan played in Europe. With your stack at risk in every hand of a no-limit tournament, you must plan ahead to figure out when it is best to build a large pot, and when you are better off preserving valuable chips. This pack helps you see the difference.

Avoiding Pitfalls: Eliminate Costly Mistakes

Challenge yourself to 63 decisions to see if you can identify when to be the aggressor and when to stay out of the way. See how the pro recognizes and steers clear of potentially disastrous situations before they arise. In low-stakes cash games your opponents will routinely put themselves in positions to make huge mistakes. Avoiding those spots yourself will often be enough to make you a huge winner. Let your opponents face poker pitfalls, while you easily avoid them and watch the money flow your way.

Dominate Your Home Game

Learn how to adjust and exploit your opponents' styles and habits. See how a top-level professional would crush your low-stakes home game by using his expertise at a table full of amateurs. Be the best player among your friends, and consistently dominate your home game.This hand-pack includes 76 decisions during a simulated real-life session.

Short Stack Strategies

Learn how to maintain and build your stack when it is under 18 big blinds. Do not simply wait around for a strong hand, demolishing your chances of winning the tournament. Learn from the pro how to identify the best opportunities to steal the blinds, while at the same time giving yourself a reasonable chance to double-up.

How To Play Small Pairs

In 10 hands, learn from poker professional Jonathan Little how to play small pairs in various common situations. See how your opponent's tendencies and stack sizes determine the proper strategy. You will also learn how to switch strategies in later betting rounds if necessary. Maximize the value of your hand by correctly determining when to enter a pot to try to make a set, winning by having the best hand, winning by bluffing, and even folding a huge hand.

Combat Aggression

In 10 hands you will combat overly aggressive opponents. Learn how to face aggressive players who come in many types and apply aggression in various ways. See how to adjust your play based on the opponents' specific aggression tendencies.

Winning With Draws

How should you proceed when you flop a draw? In 10 hands, learn how to figure out your draw's strength as well as how to plan ahead in order to maximize value whether you complete your draw or not. See how professionals evaluate their draws and, depending on each specific situation, may play a draw as the nuts or quickly fold.

The Value of Connectors

How do you play connectors correctly? Connectors are the speculative hands you hope may give you a flush, straight or premium draw on the flop. In 10 hands, Jonathan Little will reveal to you how to make the most of your suited and unsuited connectors. He will show you how and when to bluff with connectors as well as how to maximize your winnings when you are fortunate enough to hit your draws. You must learn how to avoid the common mistakes that devour your profits. By the end of this hand-pack, you will understand why so many professionals love connectors.