Jon Ettinger originally from Chevy Chase, Maryland and currently living in Bogotá, Colombia, is the consummate part-time poker professional. After dabbling in "happy meal stakes" home games as a freshman and sophomore at Amherst College, Jon was properly introduced to online poker in 2005 as he watched his young brother take the online poker world by storm. As a varsity athlete on Amherst's track and field team with an intense academic course load, poker was relegated to a hobby. For the next 2 years, Jon played a little bit of everything, from NLH cash games to MTTs and Sit-n-gos to HORSE.

It wasn't until mid 2007, soon after graduation, that Jon decided that the opportunities in the online poker world were too big to miss. Equipped with a few years of poker experience, a quantitative mind, and the insights of a younger brother that has since moved up to a successful career at NL5000, Jon focused on crushing the small and mid-stakes 6 max NL games under the screen name SoccerMom5 on Full Tilt Poker. Quickly moving up from NL50 to NL 200 and NL400, "SoccerMom5" maintained one of the highest winrates in the mid-stakes world; over 14bb/100 over his first 150k hands and over 10bb/100 for the next 100k. And while poker was his main source of income, it was not his full-time job. In the real-world, Jon had taken a job with the top investment banking and strategy consulting firm in Central America where the same analytical skills he uses in poker could be applied to a much broader arena.

Jon takes a rational, quantitative approach at the poker tables. At every point in a poker hand, there is a best decision to be made given the information you have available. With a very solid understanding of poker theory, built out of game theory, probability, and psychology, Jon tries to make the best decision at every point in every hand.

As a poker coach as well as player, Jon has helped teach this style of analytical "poker-think" to over 30 students at NL400 and below. Reviews of Jon's coaching have been extremely positive, as everyone from casual players to hardcore mid-stakes grinders have said that Jon has opened their eyes to how the mechanics of No-Limit hold 'em really work. At PokerVT, Jon hopes to reach a wider audience of poker players and show that maybe there is something to this "internet style" of poker after all. Through his videos, students will learn how the small-stakes cash games play in the modern era of internet poker. They'll learn what "poker math" really is, how hand ranges inform every single decision one makes at the poker table, and how to exploit aggressive and passive opponents alike while playing a style that can't be easily taken advantage of.

Since July 2007, Jon has earned over $100,000 in small and mid-stakes cash games on Full-Tilt poker.