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Quick Vegas Update
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.... Read more | Comments (3)
EPT Monte Carlo, The Poker Show and Visas
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!... Read more | Comments (4)
On the Road in Europe and EV Freerolls
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!... Read more | Comments (2)
Freeroll Poker Tournaments
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!!... Read more | Comments (3)
Betfair Poker Blogs
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.... Read more | Comment now
I'm a Twittering Idiot!
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........ Read more | Comments (4)
Recent Tournament Updates and Future Plans
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... Read more | Comments (2)
More Premier League Poker
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... Read more | Comments (2)
Annette_15 Blog Pimpage
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... Read more | Comments (13)
Some poker related questions and answers!
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.... Read more | Comments (7)
Premier League Poker 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... Read more | Comments (4)
Becoming a better player
There were a few follow up forum questions from my last post so I've tried to answer some of them below.... Read more | Comments (6)
"I love poker - always have, always will!"
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... Read more | Comments (7)
Set mining is cool but don't overdo it!
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... Read more | Comments (4)
Lost 50k in two days!
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... Read more | Comment now
A delayed entry...
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... Read more | Comments (5)
Funnnnnnnnnnnnn times!
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... Read more | Comments (8)
More from Barcelona
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... Read more | Comments (10)
On the road as usual.
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... Read more | Comments (4)
The beginning of something new
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... Read more | Comments (3)
Vacation and other non important stuff
Ive been very busy since my last entry... well, maybe not busy, but just occupied for the most part. I bought a house for my mom and I about a month ago, and we moved in right after. Its amazing.... Read more | Comments (10)
From Dortmund to Denmark + a few nice awards
A quick recap of the last few weeks...I played EPT Dortmund not long ago... didn't go as I hoped. I made day two with a top 20 stack, but I had an extremely tough table on day two and just... Read more | Comments (15)
PCA & Aussie Millions!
I know it's been a while, so hopefully u all haven't missed me too much! I promise I'll get better at updating... it's just not the first thing u wanna do when u get knocked out of a tourney... anyways.... Read more | Comments (4)
Another $1000 GTD Tourney for my blog readers!
The last one of these we had went well so I have been able to get another one for lower stakes players. A few people have said that my $200 tourney is too much...... Read more | Comments (12)
My Year in Review Podcast
This is my podcast which went on Betfair Radio. Happy Christmas.... Read more | Comments (11)
EPT Prague
Got to Prague on Monday. Didn't do much the first day. Checked in, and went down to the poker room to check out the action. Jumped in a 200-500 plo game (CZK currency)... think it was like a 10-20 Euro... Read more | Comments (11)
Paris!
Soooooooo, I'm in Paris now. Got here two days ago. Was awesome driving in the taxi on the way to the hotel. Driving down the champs elysée all covered with blinking blue neon lights on both sides of the road... Read more | Comments (8)
$1000 GTD Tourney for blog readers only woo hoo!!
I have been pestering Betfair to give me my own tournament for my blog readers and they have finally given in. For lots of people my $200 freezeout tournament is too big of a buy in so I have got... Read more | Comments (6)
A little of everything...
For those who dont know... PLO is the most addicting game ever. I've been playing a lot of 5-10, 10-20 on various sites and doing fairly well...... Read more | Comments (12)
A bad day...
Ever had one of those days ... where u just wanna bang ur head against the wall and wish u were somewhere else?... Read more | Comments (9)
My Dublin Interview
The guys from SikTilt did an interview with me in Dublin. You can watch it here.... Read more | Comment now
Interview with Annette on Betfair Radio
Well I was on Betfair Radio on Tuesday afternoon talking about what I have been up to. You can listen to it again here.... Read more | Comment now
Annette Obrestad - Sundays are suppose to be fun eh?
Well, I guess they can be fun but most of the time you end up scratching ur head wondering what went wrong and why you didn't win the Sunday Million instead of the random donk that makes it through the... Read more | Comments (8)
EPT Dublin Final Table - Annette_15
So as most of u know, I ended up getting 2nd in the EPT for a very nice payday. I started FT as the CL with 800k to the next guys' 640k. My table position was great, had medium to... Read more | Comments (16)
EPT Dublin
We're now down to 24 players. Got itm and will be playing down to the final table today. Had a fun lineup yesterday wiith Noah Boeken to my left with a TON of chips and Luca Pagano to my right...... Read more | Comments (7)
MEH! Late Night Poker in Cardiff - Annette_15
So I got to Cardiff to play on Late Night Poker. I was very excited and feeling good about my game, my tabledraw and everything. The line-up was pretty tough for my heat...... Read more | Comments (7)
Annette_15: WSOPE continued...
So since my memory is really bad I'll just jump directly to day 4 and the final table. Day 4. I started the day with about 300k if I'm not mistaken. We played until there were 32 left the night... Read more | Comments (11)
Annette Obrestad: The First Blog
Hey guys, For those who are not Norwegian and haven't been following my blog on Cardplayer, this will be my first write up on betfair, so I just wanna say how happy I am to have signed with this site,... Read more | Comments (7)
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