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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.

Forget about Annie Duke, Evelyn Ng and Shana Hiatt, Full Tilt cover girl, Brandi Hawbaker, has arrived. Her story is one of crime, sexual depravity, Dutch Boyd as a shining white knight, Dutch Boyd as a backstabbing patent peddler, Doyle Brunson as the kind heart he is known to be, 100K from Full Tilt for the photo at right and more… You have to read the original 2+2 thread to get the full flavor - but it is a half million posts long so you might not make it that far.

CLIFF NOTES by one of the 2+2 posters

1. Brandi gives man who calls himself “Captain Tom” her entire roll of 12 G’s.

2. The Captain is sort of like a grandfather to Brandi, but soon he turns evil and rubs his manhood against her back while they are sharing a hotel room.

3. Captain allegedly wants a BJ or more to give back the money.

4. Brandi get back 3K of the 12, but has to snuggle with the old man. He continues to teqach her. Brandi sticks around.

5. Captain Tom is allegedly really into much younger women.

6. Brandi goes to Doyle Brunson, he gives her 2 grand out of the kindness of his heart.

7. Brandi tried to OD herself and is suicidal and depressed.

8. Phil Gordon gives Brandi money, but she gets her BMW repossessed and eats a thanksgiving meal alone.

9. Brandi is pissed and out for revenge. She punches a dude and has a panic attack.

Pauly is planning a full book on it.

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“Three years ago, Rafe Furst became best known as the first person to bust out of the WSOP main event. Friday, he was on the other side of the coin, as he topped the field in the $1500 Pot-Limit Hold’em event to walk away with the cherished World Series of Poker bracelet, $345,984 richer…”

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