Originally from Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Jonathan Jaffe has more than $5.6 million in lifetime earnings as of summer 2022 according to The Hendon Mob. That includes a career-best $670,636 for finishing runner-up to Jonathan Little in the 2008 World Poker Tour (WPT) World Poker Finals at Foxwoods.
Jaffe, who once pranked ESPN by claiming to be a dolphin trainer on a World Series of Poker (WSOP) broadcast, also won the 2022 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open $25,500 High Roller for $574,085, and in January 2018 took second in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) $25,000 High Roller for $569,760.
