Sean Getzwiller is not a household name when it comes to professional poker.
But if the Tucsonan continues to run as good as he has in 2011, that’s not going to be the case for long.
Getzwiller placed 43rd at the World Series of Poker Europe’s Main Event, a 10,000-euro no-limit Texas Hold’Em tournament currently running in Cannes, France.
He was eliminated just after 2 p.m. Tucson time (11 p.m. in France) when he went all in with flush and straight draws but ultimately was beaten by an opponent who called with bottom pair.
Getzwiller earned 24,000 euros, or more than $30,000, for this tourney.
Getzwiller, 30, has had a breakout year on the poker tournament circuit, starting in June when he beat a field of more than 3,000 players to earn a World Series of Poker bracelet, not to mention about $611,000. It was one of three deep runs he made at the WSOP at the Rio in Las Vegas, and he followed that up by earning another $69,000 in the second event of the newly-formed Epic Poker League.
He also cashed in one of the six preliminary WSOPE events.
Now living in Las Vegas, Getzwiller is a former real estate broker who used to run some underground card rooms in Tucson before moving to Sin City last year. He also spends time in Toronto so as to be able to play online poker, a move that many professionals have taken since the U.S. government shut down the top poker sites on April 15.
This article appears in Oct 13-19, 2011.
Do you have additional info on the hand that Sean went busto? (was he in the blind, did he raise preflop, was he extreme short stack, ect..) The reason I ask is that he shoved all-in with no pair, but the nut flush draw with two diamonds on the board (9d 5d 3x I believe) and his opponent called him down with middle pair (5) with a Jack kicker….really? How much did Sean shove with? And how does a guy call him down with middle pair and Jack kicker? If it was a substantial amount of chips, that call might be the worst play of the entire tournament.
Sean said he played the hand way too fast, but essentially he had a little less than 40 big blinds left when he shoved with 18 outs twice. The board was 9-8-5, so he had the gutshot to go with the nut flush draw, and since his opponent called with J5os (don’t know who it was, PokerNews didn’t report the hand) it meant either his ace or 7 was good as well. Said he needed to double to stay relevant, because at that time the average was close to 400K and he had 290K before the shove.
Here’s the link to PokerNews’ coverage of the hand….. http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/20…