Poker players from Sweden
30 players from Sweden ranked by live tournament earnings. Each profile lists career figures, notable results and where the player tends to show up.
| # | Player | Hometown | Cashes | Live earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martin Jacobson | Stockholm, Sweden | — | $18,490,450 |
| 2 | Niklas Astedt | Göteborg, Sweden | — | $9,739,968 |
| 3 | Viktor Blom | Göteborg, Sweden | — | $7,724,811 |
| 4 | Chris Bjorin | Sweden | — | $5,798,240 |
| 5 | Anton Wigg | Stockholm, Sweden | — | $5,362,482 |
| 6 | Michael Tureniec | Stockholm, Sweden | — | $5,219,559 |
| 7 | Martin De Knijff | Stockholm, Sweden | — | $3,897,972 |
| 8 | Johan Storakers | Sweden | — | $3,873,096 |
| 9 | Robert Flink | Sweden | — | $3,682,613 |
| 10 | William Thorson | Varberg, Sweden | — | $3,302,324 |
| 11 | Erik Marcus Friberg | Stockholm, Sweden | — | $3,184,194 |
| 12 | Simon Brändström | — | — | $2,997,584 |
| 13 | Anton Suarez | — | — | $2,976,869 |
| 14 | Alexander Ivarsson | — | — | $2,721,472 |
| 15 | Omar Eljach | — | — | $2,706,741 |
| 16 | Ramzi Jelassi | — | — | $2,547,688 |
| 17 | Kent Lundmark | — | — | $2,388,420 |
| 18 | Robin Ylitalo | — | — | $2,348,563 |
| 19 | Christer Johansson | — | — | $2,227,900 |
| 20 | Mikael Thuritz | — | — | $2,151,316 |
| 21 | Peter Eichhardt | — | — | $1,888,161 |
| 22 | Simon Eric Mattsson | — | — | $1,885,316 |
| 23 | Rifat Palevic | — | — | $1,836,791 |
| 24 | Stefan Mattsson | — | — | $1,620,620 |
| 25 | Jerry Ödeen | — | — | $1,592,200 |
| 26 | Anton Siden | — | — | $1,569,879 |
| 27 | Ken Lennaard | — | — | $1,553,789 |
| 28 | Nichlas Mattsson | — | — | $1,542,657 |
| 29 | Simon Löfberg | — | — | $1,478,479 |
| 30 | Per Linde | — | — | $1,392,388 |
How this list is ordered
By recorded live tournament earnings in US dollars, the same ordering the source list uses. Online results are not included, and neither are cash-game winnings, which no public database tracks.
The shape of the Swedish list
Martin Jacobson's $18,490,452 sits almost twice clear of second place. Below him the list runs down steeply — Niklas Astedt at $9.74m, Viktor Blom at $7.72m, then a cluster between $5.8m and $5.2m in Chris Bjorin, Anton Wigg and Michael Tureniec. From seventh place the figures fall below $4m, and the band between $3.9m and $1.39m holds the next twenty-three players, which is where most of the movement in the list happens.
A recurring feature of the Swedish top thirty is how much of each total comes from a single tournament abroad. Erik Marcus Friberg, eleventh, won nearly two-thirds of his career figure in the 2006 WSOP Main Event; William Thorson, tenth, peaked in the same event; Robert Flink, ninth, won close to half of his in one Triton high roller in London in 2023.
Why a player's world ranking can fall while their earnings stand still
The Hendon Mob shows each player's current all-time global rank alongside their best-ever rank. Those two numbers drift apart over the years without the player doing anything: the recorded total is fixed, and other players' totals grow past it. Friberg's best world position was 97th and the same figure now reads 944th; Thorson's was 144th and now reads 899th. A falling rank in these profiles is a statement about the field, not about the player.
Playing poker in Sweden
Sweden's state casinos are gone. Svenska Spel's own notice records Casino Cosmopol closing permanently, the last house in Stockholm, and states that because all land-based casinos are to be prohibited nobody has the right to offer cash games, while tournament poker can to some extent be run under a special licence. Online play under the Swedish licensing system is a separate matter and continues. This is general information, not legal advice.