Jim Hartley won an 81-player tournament and has never beaten Trevor Klungseth

On November 19, 2023, Jim Hartley won the LITT November Open out of 81 players. Thirteen months later he won the December 2024 Open out of 74.

The 81-player result is the third-largest outright field win held by anybody in this year's Minnesota top 25, and the 74-player one is inside the top six. They belong to the player ranked twenty-fourth.

The shape of the career

• 189 tracked tournaments, 13 outright wins plus nine shared firsts, 53 podiums
• 528 games, a 45.3% win rate in the 92nd percentile of 285 ranked players
• 151 machines on file
• 35 consecutive months with an entry

That 45.3% win rate is ninth-best in this year's top 25, higher than fifteen of the players ranked above him. His average finish sits in the 89th percentile.

By playing strength Hartley is a top-ten Minnesota player. By NACS points he is twenty-fourth, and the gap comes down to which events he plays and how his best twenty finishes shook out.

LITT, 151 times

One hundred and fifty-one of 189 events at LITT, with 296 firsts from 727 games and an average finish of 2.04. Every one of his thirteen outright wins came there.

The away readings are harsh: 2.49 at Northstar, 2.63 at Blainbrook. Five visits to Blaine have produced eight firsts from 41 games.

Two records that define him

The 150-game one. Against Mark Larson, the state's No. 2 and the other resident of LITT, Hartley is 49-94 with seven ties across 150 games. That is 35%, and it is the deepest rivalry either player has. The full split is here.

The nine-game one. Against Trevor Klungseth he is 0-9. Nine tracked games, nine losses, no ties. It is the only clean sweep between two top-25 players in the entire dataset.

The rest of his file:

One hundred and sixteen games against Fleming at 56.5% is his deepest positive, and Eric Fryc at 27-13-1 the other side of the ledger.

Machines

Nothing on this list passes fifteen games, which is the consequence of playing 151 events at a venue with a constantly rotating floor. His deepest entry is JAWS at 15 games and 64.3%.

The weak end, which is where the usable information is:

• Deadpool, 0.416 over 10 games
• Eight Ball Deluxe, 0.455 over 10 games
• Godzilla, 0.473 over 10 games, a 48.2% win rate
• James Bond 007, 0.479 over 14 games, a 48.7% win rate

Fourteen games of James Bond under half is the deepest negative reading, and Godzilla at 48.2% over ten is the more surprising one given that Godzilla is a top-five machine for four other players in this list.

Form

Cold at 47% against a 63% baseline, a sixteen-point drop and the steepest negative reading in this year's top 25. His last tracked result was the LITT August Open on August 30.

If you draw him

James Bond 007 or Godzilla, both around 48% with double-digit samples. Deadpool if neither is available.

Away from LITT he is a different player, so a tournament at Northstar or Blainbrook is its own advantage. And if Monster Bash is on the bank, pick something else.

The scouting report will do this against your own record rather than the field's. The rest of the 2026 top 25 is here.