Peter Jetten
Encyclopedia
Peter Jetten is a Canadian professional poker
player. Jetten is known for playing online poker under the screen name "Apathy". He has over $2,000,000 in live poker tournament winnings, and in early 2011 signed a sponsorship deal with Full Tilt Poker
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when he won his first online poker
tournament. After attending school there for two years, he decided to drop out and pursue his poker career. Jetten currently lives in downtown Toronto, but spends most of the year travelling.
(WSOP) $2,500 Short Handed No-Limit Hold ‘em event. It was in 2008, however, that Jetten really started to make waves, just missing out on his first bracelet by finishing second to Marty Smyth
in the $10,000 World Championship Pot Limit Omaha event at the WSOP to take home over $500,000. He followed that up a few months later with a fourth-place finish at the High Roller event of the European Poker Championships in London for $300K.
After three cashes in the 2009 WSOP, Jetten started 2010 with a fifth-place result in the Aussie Millions Main Event to add another $300,000 to his bankroll. Later in the year, he returned to the WSOP and reached the final table of the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold ‘em Event, before making a deep run in the Main Event, where he finished in 54th place.
player.
Poker
Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...
player. Jetten is known for playing online poker under the screen name "Apathy". He has over $2,000,000 in live poker tournament winnings, and in early 2011 signed a sponsorship deal with Full Tilt Poker
Full Tilt Poker
Full Tilt Poker is an online poker card room that opened in June 2004 with the involvement of poker professionals Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, Andy Bloch, Mike Matusow, Jennifer Harman and Chris Ferguson...
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Personal life
Jetten was born in Toronto, Ontario. He was attending the University of Western OntarioUniversity of Western Ontario
The University of Western Ontario is a public research university located in London, Ontario, Canada. The university's main campus covers of land, with the Thames River cutting through the eastern portion of the main campus. Western administers its programs through 12 different faculties and...
when he won his first online poker
Online poker
Online poker is the game of poker played over the Internet. It has been partly responsible for a dramatic increase in the number of poker players worldwide...
tournament. After attending school there for two years, he decided to drop out and pursue his poker career. Jetten currently lives in downtown Toronto, but spends most of the year travelling.
Poker
Jetten played his first live tournament in a city just outside of Toronto in 2005. By 2006, Jetten started to utilize his talents on the tournament circuit, finishing 8th at the World Series of PokerWorld Series of Poker
The World Series of Poker is a world-renowned series of poker tournaments held annually in Las Vegas and, since 2005, sponsored by Harrah's Entertainment...
(WSOP) $2,500 Short Handed No-Limit Hold ‘em event. It was in 2008, however, that Jetten really started to make waves, just missing out on his first bracelet by finishing second to Marty Smyth
Marty Smyth
Marty Smyth is a professional poker player from Belfast, Northern Ireland with a track record including wins in the 2007 Irish Poker Open Championship and the 2008 Poker Million. He won his first WSOP bracelet in the 2008 $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha World Championship.-Poker career:Marty Smyth has...
in the $10,000 World Championship Pot Limit Omaha event at the WSOP to take home over $500,000. He followed that up a few months later with a fourth-place finish at the High Roller event of the European Poker Championships in London for $300K.
After three cashes in the 2009 WSOP, Jetten started 2010 with a fifth-place result in the Aussie Millions Main Event to add another $300,000 to his bankroll. Later in the year, he returned to the WSOP and reached the final table of the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold ‘em Event, before making a deep run in the Main Event, where he finished in 54th place.
Online Poker
Jetten started playing poker in 2004 when he made two cashes in freeroll tournaments for a combined $75. Over the next year he turned that $75 into a $100 000 bankroll. Since then Jetten has won over $650,000 online tournaments. He is also a regular high stakes cash gameCash game
Cash games, also sometimes referred to as ring games or live action games, are poker games played with "real" chips and money at stake, usually with no predetermined end time, with players able to enter and leave as they see fit...
player.