Annette Obrestad is the youngest person
to ever win a World Series
of Poker bracelet.
She started playing poker at 15 under the screen
name "Annette_15". She claims to have never had to
make a
deposit to start building her bankroll, as
her first few dollars came
from freerolls, from
which she amassed nearly a million dollars in
cash game winnings.
Between September 2006 and
February 2007, she won over
500,000$ on Pokerstars,
200,000$ on Ultimate Bet, and 136,000$
on Full
Tilt Poker. As of February 2008 Pocketfives.com ranked
her
number 51 of all online competitors, and she
has been ranked
number 1 in the past.
On September 17th, 2007, Obrestad won the first World Series
of
Poker Europe Main Event, one day before her
19th birthday. By
winning the one million
pound first prize, (2,010,000$) she edged
out
Annie Duke as the female to win the biggest single prize in
a
WSOP event. Obrestad will not be old
enough to enter the US
WSOP until 2010.
Obrestad came close to winning her second major live title
at the
Pokerstars.com European Poker Tour Dublin
event in November
2007. She finished second
to Reuben Peters and took home a
prize worth
431,000$. As of 2008 Obrestad's live tournament
winnings exceed 2.4 million dollars. She currently
holds first place
in the Norwegian all time live
poker tournament list.