Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad

Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad is one of the world’s best woman poker players and has been playing poker since the young age of 15 years old. Annette started playing poker at 15 using the screen name Annette_15 and she has told reporters in the past that she never deposited any money into her account. Annette played in freeroll tournaments until she had enough money to start playing for real money. Obrestad was born in Norway and when she isn’t traveling to play poker still lives in the country.

She turned nothing into thousands of dollars and she is now one of the most talked about young poker players in the industry. Annette is currently the youngest poker player in the world to win a World Series of Poker Europe Bracelet. Obrestad is currently playing at BetFair Poker where she is apart of the BetFair Poker Pro Team and she is also one of the trainers at PokerVT.

Over the past few years Annette has done extremely well playing in large multi-table tournaments online at has won her fair share of large tournaments. It’s no easy feat to win one large tournament, but Annette has been able to win multiple tournaments including one with 25K players. Obrestad is just beginning her poker career and she still hasn’t been able to compete in Vegas yet because she isn’t 21. Next year (2010) will be the first year that Obrestad will be allowed to compete in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

•    2007 World Series of Poker Europe NL Holdem Main Event – 1st Place
•    2008 Poker Stars Sunday Hundred Grand NL Holdem – 1st Place
•    2008 Ultimate Bet $100K Guaranteed Prize Pool Tournament – 1st Place