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A few days short of 19 years of age, Anne Obrestad has become the youngest Player to win a WSOP bracelet.

Annette is Norwegian, born in Sandnes, where she has just finished her High School years. She received her earliest poker instruction from her father who taught her stud. This young champion ought to be a Chris Ferguson protege. She built her bankroll from scratch after winning a freeroll as she was underage and here mom wouldn’t let her use her credit card. Played supertight unfancy poker. Moved up in limits and changed her game.

As this graph of her SNG play at PS shows, she has been successful at lower limit SNGs, but at the upper limits she has very modest ROIs. Since the early days of freerolls and lower limits, she has become a multi-table tournament specialist with multiple first place and final table cashes across here favorite sites. She plays at Full Tilt as annette_15. She is a regular at Pocketfives where she has topped the leader board, won the triple crown. In one of her largest wins, she finished 7th in the Poker Stars WCOOP Main Event, winning $163,150

Her victory at WSOP-E is surprising not only considering the fact that she is an 18 year old girl from Norway, but also because live poker is illegal in Norway and she has very little live experience. That said, she managed to finish 37th at the Aruba Classic in 2006. In 2007 she’s placed 5th at the EPT Grand final, 13th at the PaddyPower Irish Open, and 18th at the Barcelona Open.

As a result of her first place win, she now tops the Women’s all time money list. At the speed this young norwegian is tearing it up, Annie Duke has some her work cut out for her.

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Pokerstars released another Mac Beta Client Today. Big upgrade this time. They added a lobby interface that is similar to the one you are probably familiar with if you’ve checked them out on a PC or Parallels. Looks great. The window is resizeable.

The Pokerstars Mac Lobby opens and closes if you enter a room - which sets it apart from Full Tilt, whose lobby reopens every time you sneeze. Looks like it is still in Beta though, but getting much closer.