Sweden is a country where they have many great, both live and online poker players. One of them crossed the limit of $10,000,000 won in online cash games. We are referring to Niklas Astedt known as “lena900”.
Martin Jacobson, Michael Tureniec, Anton Wigg and Kent Lundmark are some of the best poker players who excel in live games and come from Sweden. Known live and online grinder is Viktor Blom, but Scandinavia is full of great online players and Niklas „lena900” Astedt is definitely one of them.
The “$10,000,000 club” welcomes Niklas „lena900” Astedt. Poker player from Gothenburg. Since the beginning of his career he has been mostly grinding online. He also practiced live games in Casino Cosmopol in Stockholm.
He appeared on the radar back in 2013. He took one of the top spots in FTOPS, and cashed $86,000 this way. Then he had some great results at PartyPoker, Full Tilt and PokerStars. In February 2014 he was one of the best Sunday Million players. After a four-way deal he received $129,000.
Fantastic results made Astedt win monthly rankings at PocketFives in 2016 & 2017. Two years ago he also got to the top of PocketFives leaderboard. Today he is second there. Also among the best players in his country's boards. His biggest single cash is from Super Tuesday, that he won 2 years ago. Back then he was given $104,500.
The Powerfest and SCOOP proved great for Astedt. He was third in Powerfest #10 HR, where the prize pool amounted to $388,620. Astedt took $25,675 from it. Later he won 87,209 dollars in SCOOP #14-M, with $2100 buy-in. The 10 million barrier broke in SCOOP-25-H ($530 BI). Here the victory gave the Swedish player $102,115.
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