Ebony Kenney is new to the high roller tournament scene, but she has certainly made the most of it recently. Her latest result was both a fantastic feat and a “what could have been,” as she finished fifth this week in the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Cyprus $200,000 No-Limit Hold’em Coin Rivet Invitational… Read more »
After the completion of one of the best festivals in recent memory, the World Series of Poker is not sitting back on its laurels. With the completion of its move to the Las Vegas Strip for the 2022 WSOP, the attention of the organization now has turned towards the European continent. We now know the… Read more »
With the shutdown in tournament poker due to the COVID-19 outbreak, many of the all-time money earner lists have also paused as there aren’t any new tournaments to add to the totals. Prior to this, we’ve covered the entirety of the Western Hemisphere, so it’s time to head to the “Old Continent” and the nations… Read more »
There are plenty of poker books out there that offer instruction on the game of poker in different manners. Some will take a distinctly academic approach to things, replete with charts and graphs to prove why you should float the turn when you have an open-ended straight draw. Then there are others that can present… Read more »
In the world of poker, there are several organizations that recognize those that have achieved greatness in the game. There is supposedly the Seniors’ Poker Hall of Fame, which recognizes players over the age of 50 (I say “supposedly” because I can’t seem to find anything online about who is currently enshrined in the group).… Read more »
In a battle for the ages, poker legend Doyle Brunson defeated reigning World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Annette "Annette_15" Obrestad heads-up in two straight games to win the best of three series. It was a match that pitted one of the top poker players of all time against the symbol of a younger generation. Read more »
On Friday, it's expected that many avid poker players and fans will gather at the Casino at the Empire in Leicester Square in London. Doyle Brunson will take on online poker prodigy and 2007 WSOPE Main Event winner Annette "Annette_15" Obrestad in a heads-up match. Read more »
Annette Obrestad was 18 years old when she won the biggest Hold'em tournament in the history of Europe: on September 17, 2007 at the official age of 18 years and 364 days, the teenage girl from Norway took home the £1,000,000 (a shade over $2,000,000 USD) first prize for the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe $10,000 Buy-In Main Event. It not only marked the youngest victor in World Series of Poker history, but the £1,000,000 first prize also represented the largest victory for any female player in any recorded live poker tournament. Read more »
Poker News Daily: How did you get into poker? Annette Obrestad: I used to play a lot of ten pin bowling when I was 10 and I was watching a bowling program on television and they had a banner in the background for a poker site. I checked it out because I thought, "Poker? Sounds like fun." So I went on and started playing online sit and gos. Read more »
