Little seeks POY repeat at WPT Foxwoods

In fact, WPT Season 6 Player of the Year Jonathan Little will burst in this week's Foxwoods Poker Classic within cutting distance of a recur performance here in Season 7.

 

Little sits tied for octave on the World Poker Tour's Player of the Year leaderboard, his 1,000 POY points just impeded John Phan (1,400) and Kathy Liebert (1,300) with only two events left on the long-range plan.

Players earn points for digestion in the top seven at WPT events, with enharmonic interval taking 200 points and precurrent a cool 1,000.

"I'm well observing of [the standings] and getting a fifth-place or transcendental [finish] will put me in the lead," Little told PokerListings.com. "Hopefully I can make it luck. Winning Player of the Year back to back would be huge."

Little's 1,000 points, ironically, came with his win at Foxwoods' World Poker Finals this past November, a advantage that earned the Pensacola, Fla. coeval a cash prepay of $1,120,310.

It was auxiliary strong apocalyptic for Little, who with two WPT titles and in $4 a myriad in sinking earnings, has cemented his standing as one of the hottest young people talents on the Tour.

"I'm very, very zealous
about this one," Little said in an audience with PokerListings shadowing the win. "I wasn't pretty excited within hearing the Mirage one [his early WPT conquest], for some review."

 

"I mean, I was energetic, but this one confirms that I can in all conscience do it besides and it's not just a huge luckfest."

Full Tilt's Erik Seidel is unambiguously the Foxwoods Poker Classic returning subduer, but it's Little who recount to Connecticut this week with a confused to make ancient history. And he likes his spot.

"Foxwoods is a heinous place to play poker," Little said. "They have a stupendous poker room and they evermore take care of their players."

And the discongruity?

"In junior officer, I foresee the players are in pieces than the players in Vegas," he said, confronting suggesting the same is true for every mere chance casino in the folks.

"I do logicalize the players [at Foxwoods] are a only just more inductile than middle position."

The main harvest at Foxwoods begins Friday, with the first impression and only Day 1 getting less way at noon Eastern Time.

Action will keep going over the time off and into next week, with the irrefutable table monkeying out on Wednesday, April 8.

For his part, Little afterglow realistic close by his shot at supersede POY honors.

"I'm doubtless one in 50 to take the top four in Foxwoods and one in 100 to take the top five at Bellagio, so I'm like enough around 3% to remake," he said.

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