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Annette “Annette_15″ Obrestad

November 4, 2009

Annette Obrestad has become one of the most feared women poker players in the world since she won the 2007 WSOPE Main Event. Her journey to poker stardom began at just 15-years old when she began playing internet poker. She joined Ultimate Bet and played at the play-money tables as well as freeroll tournaments. Her big breakthrough online was when she won one of the freeroll tournaments and was rewarded a $9 tournament entry, however she chose to cash it in for the money instead. It is rumored that she is thinking about creating a network of poker training sites.

With the $9 she began playing $1 sit-and-goes and was a regular winner, growing the $9 into hundreds and eventually thousands of dollars by playing low stake sit and goes and up to $6 multi-table tournaments. This bankroll management paid off for Annette but as her bankroll ballooned she had to move up in stakes. She created accounts at PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker where the biggest weekly poker tournaments are held, however she wasn’t so successful. The MTT players at both these sites were far more experienced and better players than the low-mid stake players she was used to at Ultimate Bet, forcing her to change her playing style. She adopted a much more aggressive style which proved to be a success because she found herself winning the big tournaments at both sites, which brought a lot of exposure and attention to her. She also won the $100 rebuy tournaments at PokerStars various times cementing her place as a feared MTT player.

With so much success online she was able to travel to live tournaments in Europe, and in 2007 the first World Series of Poker Europe was being held in London for the first time. Annette decided to travel to London and entered the £10,000 buy-in WSOPE Main Event. She played exactly as she did online – lots of aggression and with perfect reads. She busted popular female players Annie Duke and Jennifer Harman, two players considered as the best female players in the world, but the spotlight was on Annette for this tournament. Eventually on September 17th, 2007, the tournament was down to Annette and John Tabatabi and Annette finished victorious. The victory came just two days before her 19th birthday and she won £1 million for the achievement.

Six weeks late Annette travelled to Dublin, Ireland, for EPT Dublin. Yet again she made the final table, this time losing heads-up to Reuben Peters. She won $429,181 for her runner-up finish and had the poker community amazed at how she was dominating tournaments both online and live.

With so much success she earned sponsorship from Betfair Poker and was invited to the invitation-only television shows Premier League Poker III, and European Open IV. She made impressive showings at both shows and managed 4th in the European Open IV final for $30,000.

In 2009 she continued to post impressive results online and live. Her biggest result of 2009 has been 13th in the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo where she earned $101,244. She continues to play internet poker as well as travel the live