After winning the WSOP Europe Main Event four months ago, and then being runner-up in EPT Baden two weeks later, Annette Obrestad has been the most popular female player, together with Germany's Katja Thater. In Dortmund, she continues to impress the audience by being among the chip leaders with one hour to go of Day 1b, as she now has close to 50,000 in chips stacked in front of her.