Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad is a living legend of poker, especially amongst online tournament grinders. She narrowly missed out on adding yet another title to her belt over the weekend, as she placed second in the Sunday Mulligan at Bovada Poker, one of their many weekly tournaments with guaranteed prize pools that take place on Sundays.
The Sunday Mulligan is the most modest of Full Tilt’s Big Money Sundays lineup, with the prize pool guarantee coming in at $200,000. The tournament doesn’t start until just after 7pm ET, meaning that players who have busted from the larger $750k Guarantee or Sunday Brawl can still try their chances at having a successful Sunday. You can satellite into the Sunday Mulligan from as little as $2 + $0.25 or 50 Full Tilt Points.
Over the weekend the Sunday Mulligan had no problem meeting and indeed exceeding the $200,000 guarantee, with the final prize pool weighing in at an exciting total of $239,400, with over $50,000 of this set aside for the first place finisher. It took 1,197 entrants to generate this prize pool, and of those 135 made it into the money, making the late night very worthwhile indeed.
Annette Obrestad is famous throughout the wide world of internet poker, and for good reason. The Norwegian Full Tilt Pro started with nothing, playing freeroll tournaments, before winning a very modest $9. With that $9 she started grinding small Sit & Go and later larger tournaments in earnest, and quickly made a name for herself as she pulled in big score after big score in progressively larger tournaments. She’s amassed hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars playing poker, and is an inspiration to tournament grinders everywhere.
This week she wasn’t quite lucky enough to snag a first place win, but a very respectable second in Full Tilt’s Sunday Mulligan isn’t to be scoffed at either. It was augie00 who bested Obrestad heads up, receiving $52,668 for the first place finish and the glory of beating one of the game’s best. With her finish, Obrestad walks away with $33,516 to add to her collection, and there’s no question that we’ll be hearing more from her soon.