Annette Obrestad $2,382,318
The story of Annette Obrestad is very interesting. Everything started by the time she was 15 years old, this is why she is also known as Annette_15, since this is her online screen name. Annette Obrestad says that she never had to deposit anything at an online poker website since she managed to get her first poker money by winning at a freeroll poker tournament, where she managed to get a good amount of cash (around a couple of hundred thousands of dollars).
From September 2006 and February 2007 she managed to win some incredible amounts of money at some of the most popular online poker rooms:
Pocketfives.com, a website dedicated to track all what's going on in the online poker world, is ranking her to be the 51th online poker player in the world.
One interesting fact about her online poker game strategy is the fact that she doesn't pay too much attention at her cards, and she claims that the most important thing the moment you are playing poker is to watch what your opponents are doing.
In fact in July 2007 when she played a sit and go poker tournament she says that during the entire tournament, she only looked at what all the other opponents were doing, and only had a glance at her cards once, the moment when she was forced to bet all in. This means that her strategy entails the fact that you need to keep a good eye on what the other opponents are doing, and only this way you will be able to control the game.
One of the greatest achievements of Annette Obrestad was winning the World Series of Poker Europe. This event was just one day before her 19th birthday, and she managed to win the grand prize of $2.01 million dollars. This was a world record since she managed to win the highest amount of money as a female poker player.