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Annette Obrestad - Betfair sponsored pro and WSOP Europe Main Event Champion.

Quick Vegas Update

2 July 2009

Well, I'm in Las Vegas, chillin' out, enjoying myself, playing online poker and looking forward to the Main Event which starts on July 3.

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EPT Monte Carlo, The Poker Show and Visas

13 May 2009

I'm writing this blog from my room in Venice even though I should be in Moscow right now for the Russian Poker Tour because my stupid visa never came through on time. At least I have time for more shopping!

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On the Road in Europe and EV Freerolls

17 April 2009

Well, after a couple of months break from live tournaments I'm back on the road and will be hitting events in San Remo, Monte Carlo, Venice and finally Moscow....I'll be away for a month and the packing just sucked!

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Freeroll Poker Tournaments

3 April 2009

A lot of people ask me to write some strategy stuff on this blog and it's something I've never got round to for whatever reason....er... laziness!!

Betfair Poker Blogs

27 March 2009

I've never really looked around this site - don't know why. Think I had a look when I first started blogging here but it was fairly awful then but now, as poker sites go, I think it's pretty awesome.

I'm a Twittering Idiot!

3 March 2009

Things change quickly in the Internet world and you sometimes you don't notice. I liked Facebook at first but now I've got a new toy.....

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Recent Tournament Updates and Future Plans

22 February 2009

Have played two big live tournaments this year so far and disappointed obviously not to have gone deeper in both of them. The Aussie Millions was frustrating when I got tilted when some player I'd never played against before and who had just joined the table called my 4-bet with 5-5!

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More Premier League Poker

11 February 2009

Found the videos below from the first episode of Premier League Poker, I said before I was looking forward to it airing and think the show is pretty good. I've just put the first episode on - I don't think it will be too difficult to find the rest on the Internet if you are interested;)

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Annette_15 Blog Pimpage

21 January 2009

Just thought I'd take this opportunity to thank everyone who has these pages linked up from their poker blog. I know I'm not always the most regular with my updates so the fact people are still linking to me is really appreciated.

Some poker related questions and answers!

12 January 2009

Well, I've slipped into my old ways and have been posting in forums again instead of blogging!! I recently really enjoyed doing a question and answer session for a forum partly run by fellow pro Barry Greenstein.

Premier League Poker 2008

9 December 2008

So I'm back home now after playing in one of the biggest televised tournaments around - probably the biggest in terms of money and I must say that I've never had as much fun playing poker for a week in my five-year long poker career!

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Becoming a better player

28 November 2008

There were a few follow up forum questions from my last post so I've tried to answer some of them below.

"I love poker - always have, always will!"

20 November 2008

As I said in my last post, I'm a forum girl at heart and can be quite prolific when the mood takes me. For anyone who missed a recent post I made about my background in online poker and my take on the reason I've been fairly successful and how that affected me, I thought I'd try and reproduce it, so here goes...

Set mining is cool but don't overdo it!

9 November 2008

As many as you know I'm a forum person rather than a blogger - sorry Betfair:) so I thought I'd republish this response I gave to an OP after way too many people had suggested a a call. Here's the hand.

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Lost 50k in two days!

3 November 2008

I won't go on a long rant about how bad the tournaments have been for me because I know nobody wants to hear about that anyway. I've visited a ton of places though, including Berlin, Barcelona, London, Nottingham, Toronto, London again, and now I'm in Budapest for the EPT.

A delayed entry...

12 August 2008

Sitting here at the airport at home on my way to Ireland to play a little and do promotional stuff. I know it's been a while since I wrote so figured I'd do something productive while waiting for once.I haven't played much at all lately. Was in Vegas for a month and a half during WSOP, but obviously I couldnt play anything.

Funnnnnnnnnnnnn times!

12 June 2008

Man, I have so much to talk about this time so expect to keep reading for a while. I'll start with WPT Barcelona. I got through day one of the Main Event with 50k or so in chips which was top 15 out of 120 left I think. Day 1 went pretty smooth from the start, I picked up some hands, got paid etc. Had 3 key hands that day which I think were all pretty interesting:

More from Barcelona

13 May 2008

I just got back couple of days ago. My friend got 2nd in the tournament which was huge for him. Kinda sucks that he didn't win cuz he was way better than his opponent when he got HU, he just didn't have the chips to fight with. He's happy tho, and I'm proud of him for doing so well at his first big FT! Good job Mike :).

On the road as usual.

7 May 2008

So, I'm sitting here in my hotel room in Barcelona. I just came here from London after playing in the European Ladies Poker Open. I won't even bother writing anything about it because I busted 45th outta 52 and it was just one of those days where nothing seemed to work. We all have those, and there's not much to do about it

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The beginning of something new

1 May 2008

I have something really exciting to talk about this time. I've been talking to Daniel Negreanu and his crew a lot the last months about joining his new training site called PokerVT. It is very uniqe and different from all the other sites out with tons of new ways to teach poker and how to improve your game.