BY TOM SOMACH

Is online poker so much about bluffing, intimidation and tells that it doesn’t matter what cards you’re dealt?

One poker champ seems to think so, and who is anyone to question the wisdom of a world champion?

World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event winner Annette Obrestad says she is such a talented poker player that she once won an online poker tournament without looking at her hole cards the entire tournament!

Obrestad made the stunning admission in an interview just out in Bluff Europe magazine, the European sister publication of American poker magazine Bluff.

“After you get a lot of experience, you get to know when people are weak and when people are strong, and you don’t really care about your cards,” she told the mag.

“I played this online sit-n-go tournament with 180 people and I stuck a post-it note over my cards just for fun and for practice,” she said. “And I managed to win the whole thing.”

Obrestad, from a small town in Norway, was just 18 years old when she won the Main Event of the inaugural WSOPE earlier this month in London, England.

She was the youngest person ever to win a WSOP or WSOPE event, and the first female and first teenager to win a WSOP or WSOPE Main Event.

She won a million British pounds, equal to about two million U.S. dollars, for winning the Main Event.

She has since celebrated her 19th birthday.

(E-mail Tom Somach at tomsomach@yahoo.com.)