Poker Freeroll Player Annette_15 (Annette Obrestad) Wins WSOPE
September 16, 2007
She's not even old enough to drink yet in some countries, but boy can she play some poker. Annette_15 was the last one standing at the World Series of Poker Main Event in Europe (WSOPE). For her efforts, not only did she claim a place in history as the first ever WSOPE main event winner, and the first ever woman to win a WSOP main event, in addition to winning the enormous prize of 1 million pounds, and a WSOP bracelet, Annette Obrestad is also the youngest ever WSOP main event winner, talk about your record breaking day.
The final hand, the one that catapulted Annette into history was against John Tabtabai after two hours of intense heads up action. Annette's flopped set of sevens against Tabatabai's top two pair.
Annette began her online poker career playing in freeroll poker games (poker tournaments held online that don't cost any money). The newfound Norwegian teenage poker star said that she never made a real money poker deposit, she played freerolls until she had enough cash in her online poker account to buy into a tournament, a true story of rags to riches in online poker.
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Actually Annette is old enough to drink and vote in her Norway where the legal limit is 18. And of course what’s more interesting is that live poker is illegal in Norway (anti-gambling).