Jonathan Little wins the WPT Foxwoods event

Continuing his streak of solid finishes at WPT events, Season Six Player of the Year Jonathan Little took down the World Poker Tour Foxwoods World Poker Finals title and the $1.1 million dollars that went along with it. He had “Little” trouble taking down a few of the big names en route to his victory. Mike Matusow was a victim at the final table when his Ace Jack didn’t connect to beat the pocket nines of Little. Matusow was the short stack coming into the final table and didn’t hesitate to put his chips all in with he peeked at the Ace Jack hole cards.

When heads up play was reached, the battle reminded many of the epic battle with John Juanda and Stanislav Alekhin at the WSOP Europe earlier this (although that battle ended only after a 21 hour war). The heads up fight between Little and ultimate second place finisher Jonathan Jaffe took 5 hours as the players played seesaw on many hands. The hand that concluded the action? Little raised to 850,000 on the button only to see Jaffe push all of his chips in the middle. Little only thought for a second before calling with his Ace Queen and was elated to see Jaffe turn up the Ace Ten. The flop and turn brought no help for either player but the Queen on the river gave the solid victory to Little. Jaffe pocketed $670K for his efforts.