Annette Obrestad has decided to increase her ownership in PokerManager. According to Alpha Innovation AS, Annette now owns 5% of the company.
(PRWEB) January 22, 2008 -- Annette Obrestad is one of the initial co-developers of PokerManager™ (www.pokermanager.com), and has now decided to increase her ownership in the software that has been extremely well received in the poker and gambling industry. Alpha Innovation AS who owns the software recently did a stock issue, and Annette now owns 5% of the company.
Other owners are EPT winners Peter Willers Jepsen and Bjorn-Erik Glenne, professional investors and the other founders.
Annette Obrestad statement: “I am very happy to have gotten this opportunity since I really love the software myself. It just makes everything so much easier when playing online, and I’m glad so many others feel the same. I felt that I could not wait any longer before I used the option to increase my ownership in PokerManager™.”
About Annette Obrestad:
Annette Obrestad started her poker career online when she was only fifteen years old using the online screen-name "Annette_15". She claims she never had to deposit money on any online poker site. Instead she made her initial online bankroll by winning freeroll poker tournaments from which she went on to amass several hundred thousand dollars in winnings. Between September 2006 and February 2007, she won over $500,000, $200,000 and $136 playing online tournaments only. She is ranked among the top 10 players online.
"Annette_15" finished in 7th place in the World Championship of Online Poker. The entire poker world was extremly curious how she would handle the transaction to playing live poker, but she took the challenge and on September 17, 2007 Obrestad won the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe Main Event the day before her 19th birthday. This world championship had probably the strongest field ever to start in one and same tournament. By winning the one million-pound sterling (US$2.01 million at the time of the event) first prize she edged the record for a single-event payout to a female player, was the first woman winner as well as becoming the youngest winner ever. Annette is the face of Betfair.com.
About PokerManager™:
PokerManager™ (www.pokermanager.com) is free to download, and by many poker players considered to be the ultimate poker resource and tool. It has a complete listing of all off and online poker tournaments, the world's biggest poker video archive, free tools, community, blogs from ordinary and world class players, magazine, poker IM, poker calendar and much more…It has been co-developed by 2 EPT winners and the world's youngest world champion; Annette Obrestad.
Other PokerManager news:
- PokerManager now lists over 10,000+ daily poker tournaments from all the major networks and recently launched a listing with offline poker tournaments as well. It also shows what online poker rooms have satellites for these. In the period September 2007 to January 2008 PokerManager listed a total of 1,4 million tournaments.
- PokerManager gives the users the possibility to create their own video/audio blogs, in addition to the “old fashion” way of writing it. Some are also using this to produce their own poker school inside the software.
- PokerManager enters an exclusive partnership with Bluff Magazine. They are now the provider of all the poker related news and articles.
- PokerManager now have over 200 000 poker/casino related videos in the play-on-demand archive.
Contact info:
Per Hagen
+47 917 800 80
per@pokermanager.com
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