Poker Anorak / Editor / 30 May 2008 /

ANNETTE OBRESTAD - out Annette Obrestad - "learns how to play Omaha and comes third in her first ever WPT event!"

Sounds good. But this is Omaha tournament play - so how good is it?

To the World Poker Tour in Barcelona, where over 100 poker pros - including Marc Goodwin and Juaha Helppi - are vying to win the €300 Pot-Limit Omaha event.

Annette did well. She took home 16,600 euros for finishing third. That's not too shabby.

Annette's off to Las Vegas soon. Not to play. Oh no, that would never do in the USA, the self-styled Land of the Free. Annette is 19, two years away from being old enough to play in Nevada.

The news is that Annette - the WSOPE poker champion - will spend the WSOP shopping.

But beyond the arcane laws in the US, we wonder who hard it is to win at Omaha, the game that people tumble into after Hold'em?

Indeed, given the level of competition out there, it might be best for budding poker pros to specialise in this version of the game and clean up.

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