} Peter Jetten (born March 26, 1985) is a

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player. Jetten is known for playing online poker under the screen name "Apathy". He has over $9,300,000 in live poker tournament winnings.

Personal life

Jetten was born in

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. He was attending the

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when he won his first

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tournament. After attending school there for two years, he decided to drop out and pursue his poker career. Jetten currently lives in toronto, but spends most of the year travelling.

Early Poker

Jetten played his first live tournament in a city just outside Toronto in 2005. By 2006, Jetten started to utilize his talents on the tournament circuit, finishing 8th at the

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(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

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by finishing second to

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in the $10,000 World Championship

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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

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, 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 continuously played in online tournaments. He is also a regular high-stakes

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player.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jetten, Peter 1985 births Living people Sportspeople from Toronto Canadian poker players