Michele Lewis

Harrah’s World Series of Poker kicked off it’s first annual WSOP Europe in London last week with some nice little record breakers.  First was Annie Duke who set a record as the first woman to win more than $1 million in official WSOP winnings yet that record was short lived (one day to be exact) when online master player, Annette Obrestad , won first place in the WSOPE Main Event taking a prize of 1 million pounds ($2,013,102).  That extra 13k in prize winnings helped her break another Duke record of highest single-event win for a woman that Duke held for her $2 million win in 2004 Tournament of Champions.

I doubt Duke will be losing any sleep over broken records knowing how she feels about being singled out as a woman instead of a player.  In fact, this is a great opportunity for Duke to say “See?  I told you women don’t need a ladies event.”  Yet, as I mentioned before…Duke is a player and like most poker players she is probably nursing her wounds of her recent elimination rather than looking to make some kind of gender biased remark.  Nonetheless, here is a sexy photo of her.

Oh and one more thing…barely legal Obrestad, at 18-years of age, is the youngest to ever win a WSOP bracelet.  However, this means she is not old enough to be this kind of Cougar but she is old enough to be this kind. See WCP for more info on Cougars and woman poker players.

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1. Annette Obrestad  Cute, young, smart with  $2 million to boot
2. John Tabatabai won second to Annette           $1,147,770
3. Matthew McCullough  Last American Standing in London  $389,910
4. Oyvind Riisem                                                                 $257,020
5. Johannes Korsar                                                            $191,860
6. Dominic Kay                                                                     $152,040
7. Magnus Persson                                                               $ 114,030
8. Theo Jorgensen ( the old guy at 35)                         $85,070
9. James Keys                                                                         $61,540