Harrah’s World Series of Poker kicked off it’s first annual WSOP Europe in London last week with some record breakers. Annie Duke, the first woman to win more than $1 million in official WSOP winnings, had her record broken (one day to be exact) when online player, Annette Obrestad won the WSOPE Main Event taking a prize of 1 million pounds ($2,013,102).
I doubt Duke will lose any sleep over broken records, as she prefers to be a top pro rather than a top female pro. 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.
Oh and one more thing…barely legal Obrestad, at 18-years of age,is the youngest to ever win a WSOP bracelet. This means she’s not old enough to be a Cougar.
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- Annette Obrestad Cute, young, smart with $2 million to boot
- John Tabatabai won second to Annette $1,147,770
- Matthew McCullough Last American Standing in London $389,910
- Oyvind Riisem $257,020
- Johannes Korsar $191,860
- Dominic Kay $152,040
- Magnus Persson $ 114,030
- Theo Jorgensen ( the old guy at 35) $85,070
- James Keys $61,540
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