Poker Player Profile – Annette Obrestad

Annete Obrestad is a young female poker player who has played hundreds of thousands of hands online, and participated in some of the worlds biggest tournaments. Her poker playing style is very aggressive, and she is known for being able to play any two card starting hand well. In 2007 she won the inaugural World Series Of Poker Europe main event, becoming the youngest poker player ever to win a world series of poker bracelet.

Annete obrestad started playing online poker at the age of 15 years, using the playername annette15, while she was still growing up in a small town called Sandness, in Norway.

Annette Obrestad claims to have never deposited any cash to play poker with, as she started by playing freerolls, and invested her real money prizes from those into buy in tournaments, where she very quickly made her way up to competing in $100 buy in tournaments, and building a massive bankroll.

She’s slowly built her reputation in the online poker world to become one of the most respected players in the eyes of fellow pro’s, and a household name and face due to her numerous appearances playing at televised poker events. Annete is known for playing a very aggressive game style and she makes use of bluffing whenever she senses weakness in her opponents.

After conquering the online poker world, she decided to focus her attention on live poker play. Due to her age she was not able to play poker in Las Vegas for any of the various World Series titles, as you have to be 21 to gamble in America.

The World Series Of Poker (WSOPE) finally came to Europe in 2007 and Annette Obrestad was quick to register.

She made her first wsop appearance in the No Limit Holdem event which was a 3 day tournament, and Annette was able to defeat two of the worlds most famous female players; Jennifer Harman and Annie Duke along the way. She started off well and had become one of the top five chip leaders at the end of day one. The next day she made it to the final table, although she had some ups and downs in stack size along the way.

She eventually made the final two, playing heads up against Londoner John Tabatabai, where he was defeated making Annete the youngest ever bracelet winner, and the first winner of the prestigious world series of poker Europe.

For her victory Annette won a total of £1 million and made her claim to be considered the best female player in the world. She continues to play the European live tournaments which allow players under 21 years of age to enter.

Annette Obrestad – Tournament Placings

Position
Prize Money
Tournament

1
£1,000,000
2007 WSOPE, Event 3, No-Limit Texas Hold’em
Main Event

2
€297,800
EPT – Season 4, EPT Dublin

21
50,000 AUD
2009 Aussie
Millions Main Event

13
$100,100
EPT – Season 5, PokerStars.com
EPT Grand Final

17
£17,000
EPT – Season 6, EPT London

7
175,000 AUD
2010 Aussie
Millions Main Event

11
$25,000
2010 NBC
Heads-Up Championship