Full Tilt Poker continues to sign some of the brightest young poker talent to sponsorship deals, this time inking Jon "Fieryjustice" Little and Scott "BigRiskky" Clements to deals. This comes on the heels of their impressive outings at the North American Poker Championship this past weekend.
Scott Clements made a name for himself at the 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) where he won a gold bracelet and $301,175 in an Omaha Hi-Lo event.
He followed that up by winning the Canadian Poker Championship on the World Poker Tour (WPT) in October 2006. In June 2007, Clements won another WSOP bracelet, this time in a Pot-Limit Omaha tournament, and just a few days ago he clinched his second WPT title at the 2007 North American Poker Championship.
Jonathan Little was Clements' heads-up opponent at the 2007 NAPC. He put up a good fight, but in the end he had to settle for second place.
Little has, however, been successful on the WPT circuit before, taking home first place and $1,066,295 at the 2007 Mirage Poker Showdown in May.
At the WSOP, Little hasn't performed as well as Clements and is yet to win a gold bracelet.
Full Tilt has gone on a signing binge as of late, scooping up many talented young poker players including Jon Turner, Jared Hamby and Jordan Morgan. They had wanted to sign Annette Obrestad to a deal, but they were outbid by Betfair, who offered "Annette_15" a superior deal to sign with their room. Full Tilt seems to be targeting players with a mix of online and live success, which would make sense from a marketing standpoint.
It is assumed that Little and Clements are receiving a standard deal from Full Tilt Poker, which would include 100% rakeback, cash bonuses for appearing on TV, an hourly "salary" for playing at the tables, and other perks.
With the current signing spree that is going on in the online poker world, one has to wonder how long names like Sorel Mizzi and Chad Batista will remain free agents.