Annette_15 Breaks Two Records Held By Annie Duke and Becomes Youngest WSOP Bracelet Winner
Annette Obrestad's win at the World Series of Poker's first "main event" held outside of the United States - which was also one of the largest buy-in tournaments in WSOP history - has mainstream media websites buzzing about this 18 year-old woman's victory.
The reason is that Obrestad looks every bit her age (maybe even younger). Her victory at the first WSOP Europe championship event is truly historic given both her age and gender.
Besides shattering the record for youngest poker player to win a WSOP bracelet by more than two years (she turns 19 next week), she also passed Annie Duke's record for the woman with the most money won in WSOP events. Duke has just more than $1 million.
Duke also won $2 million at the 2004 Tournament of Champions, which is an invitation-only event sponsored by Harrah's. When she won that event, she held the record for the largest tournament poker prize won by a woman.
Obrestad broke both records - the second by a little more than $13,000, as she took home the top prize of $2,013,102 - when she won the bracelet in London yesterday . Please click here to read the recap of that event.
News organizations outside of the poker press have noticed. Today, stories appeared on CNN.com, Bloomberg.com, Aftenposten (a Norwegian paper), and in a few other places. It will be interesting to see how much "legs" this story picks up once word gets out that an 18-year-old won one of the major events of 2007.
Obrestad has already achieved a cult following in Internet poker circles. She is an extremely successful online player who continues to amaze the online railbirds with her play. (She recently won a 180-person sit-and-go without looking at her holecards the entire time. Click here to read about that in an interview she did with Card Player.)
Obrestad is also an inspiration to many young poker players around the world because she claims she started her bankroll by playing in freerolls before she had a bank account. Click here to see an interview she did for Card Player TV.
POSTED ON: Sep 18, 2007
sorry, forgot the adress: http://www.pokerxfactor.com/HH72069/4%20180%20blind%20play
POSTED ON: Sep 18, 2007
You can see the video here (if ur a pokerxfactor-subscriber). Its pretty obvious shes telling the truth when u see it. Of course it´s a big edge to actually see the cards, bt in SNG its very possible to win just playing stack sizes and betting patterns. As a matter of fact I would highly recommend it as an instrument to get better.
POSTED ON: Sep 17, 2007
Can you post link to that hh?
POSTED ON: Sep 17, 2007
Maybe u shouldn't call stuff BS when you have no idea what you're talking about. If you watch the hand history of that tourney it's VERY obvious it's true. Just because you aren't near her skill level it doesn't mean she cant do it. Appearently. Go Anette!
POSTED ON: Sep 17, 2007
Here's an interview where she talks about that blind tournament: http://www.cardplayer.com/online-poker/poker-beat/article/2536. Admittedly hard to prove, but she makes a lot of admissions that indicate this is the real deal (also, the video replay seems genuine). She admits to looking for one hand, before she decided that she could actually win and should take it seriously.
POSTED ON: Sep 17, 2007
I call BS on the 180 person SNG without looking at hole cards. That's not possible.