Betfair sponsored player Annette Obrestad has become the youngest player ever to win the “Tournament Performance of the Year” award at the prestigious European Poker Awards in Paris.

Her achievement at the World Series of Poker Europe presented by Betfair.com was recognised as “phenomenal” by Poker Europa Chief Nic Szeremeta who presented the award. She defeated a field comprising of “one of the toughest fields in poker” to win more than $2m.

Annette beat fellow nominees and potential favourites for the award Carlos Mortensen and Bruno Fitoussi. Mortensen won $3.97m at the WPT in Las Vegas while Fitoussi took $1.2m in 2nd place in one of the most prestigious tournaments in the poker calendar, the WSOP HORSE event, also in Las Vegas.