ortmann reached the semifinals of the 2010 world pool masters in may of that year by defeating darren appleton, thorsten hohmann and thomas engert before losing 3–8 to toru kuribayashi. he entered the 2011 wpa world eight-ball championship and defeated mika immonen 7–2 in the double-elimination round before losing in the round of 32 to ronato alcano. ortmann defeated in the first knockout round, followed by nick van den berg and li hewen, before losing to eventual champion chang jung-lin the following year.