Annette Obrestad (born September 18, 1988) is a Norwegian
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player. Obrestad is the youngest person to ever win a
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(WSOPE) bracelet and in 2007 was considered to be one of the best online multi-table tournament players in the world. Obrestad is part of the
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Poker Pro team.
Annette Obrestad started her poker career online when she was only fifteen years old using the online screen-name "Annette_15".
Annette Obrestad (born September 18, 1988) is a Norwegian
pokerPoker is a sport from the 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 bets and how many rounds of betting are allowed...
player. Obrestad is the youngest person to ever win a
World Series of Poker EuropeThe World Series of Poker Europe is the first expansion effort of World Series of Poker-branded poker tournaments outside the United States. Since 1970, participants had to travel to Las Vegas if they wanted to compete in the World Series of Poker...
(WSOPE) bracelet and in 2007 was considered to be one of the best online multi-table tournament players in the world. Obrestad is part of the
BetfairBetfair is the world's largest Internet betting exchange. The company is based in Hammersmith in West London, England.Since Betfair was launched in June 2000 it has become the largest online betting company in the UK and the largest bet exchange in the world...
Poker Pro team.
Online poker
Annette Obrestad started her poker career online when she was only fifteen years old using the online screen-name "Annette_15". She claims she never had to deposit money on any
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site. Instead she made her initial online bankroll by winning
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poker tournaments from which she went on to amass several hundred thousand dollars in winnings. Between September 2006 and February 2007, she won over $500,000 on Pokerstars, $200,000 on UltimateBet, and $136,000 on
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. , Pocketfives.com, a site that tracks
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, ranks her number 51. She also has been the site's top-ranked player in the past.
In July 2007, Obrestad won a $4 buy-in 180 person online sit-and-go where she claims to have played almost the entire tournament without looking at her cards. She claims she peeked at her cards once during the tournament, when she was faced with an all-in bet. She did this to show "just how important it is to play
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and to pay attention to the players at the table." On March 2, 2008, she won first place and $20,000 in the Stars Sunday Hundred Grand, a tournament with a buy-in of only $11 but with a field of 20,000 players. On June 8, 2008, she won first place and $35,000 in the Betfair Sunday $125k GTD Event. In December 2008, she won first place in the Ultimate Bet $100k GTD tournament.
World Series of Poker Europe
On September 17, 2007 Obrestad won the inaugural
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Main Event the day before her 19th birthday. By winning the one million-
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2.01 million at the time of the event) first prize she edged the record for a single-event payout to a female player set previously by poker professional
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when she won $2 million at the
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. Prior to the 2007 WSOPE, Obrestad had only cashed in four other live poker tournaments. Obrestad currently holds first place among Norwegian poker players in the all-time money list in live tournaments.
Obrestad will not be old enough to compete in the World Series of Poker events that are held in the United States until 2010. Under the gaming laws of
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, where the main WSOP is held, players must be at least 21. Although she will turn 21 in 2009,
that year's WSOPThe 2009 World Series of Poker was the 40th annual World Series of Poker . It was held at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, and ran from May 27 to July 15. There were 57 bracelet events, culminating in the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event...
will begin in late May with the Main Event starting in July, while her birthday is not until September. , her total live tournament winnings exceed $2,700,000., most of which, $1,960,000, is accounted for from her only WSOP cash.
World Series of Poker Bracelets
| Year |
Tournament |
Prize |
| 2007 WSOPE The World Series of Poker Europe is the first expansion effort of World Series of Poker-branded poker tournaments outside the United States. Since 1970, participants had to travel to Las Vegas if they wanted to compete in the World Series of Poker...
|
£10,000 No Limit Hold'Em Event |
£1,000,000 |
European Poker Tour
Obrestad came close to winning her second major live title in November 2007, finishing in second place earning €297,800 ($431,184) at the 2007 PokerStars.com
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event- EPT 4 Barcelona :* Casino: Casino Barcelona, Barcelona * Buy-in: €7,700 * 4-Day Event: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 to Saturday, September 1, 2007* Number of buy-ins: 543* Total Prize Pool: €4,181,100...
to Reuben Peters, after holding the chip lead throughout most of the final table.
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