Sweden has an incredible track record when it comes to online poker players and the country itself has the most poker players online per capita in the world. With over 1.6 billion dollars in online revenue coming from Sweden alone, it makes it the largest online poker playing country in the world.

The reason for this boom is anyone's guess. One can argue that the broadcasting of poker on TV has created the boom, but with other Scandinavian countries being exposed to just as much poker, its hard to get a read on why Sweden has so many poker players, and why the game has reached colossal levels in the Swedish pop-culture.

One doesn't only have to look at online poker statistics, one can simply go and check out the leader boards in the local or world poker tournaments to see Swedish players always in the top ten and always coming close to if not winning the tournaments.

With Erik Friberg finishing 8th place at the WSOP in Las Vegas 200g main event, one can see that Swedish players are far more superior than any other country when it comes to great poker stars.

With online players as Bengt Sonnert and Erik Sagstrom and John Persson, Sweden continues to dominate in live poker tournaments and online.

Some Swedish player dominating online sites are BestPoker.com, Betsson.com and PartyPoker.com. Swedish players also enjoy playing tournaments online at PokerStars and are always finishing in the top ten. And a Swedish player won the WCOP, the World Championship of Online Poker at Pokerstars, taking home $400,000 plus and cementing the notion that Swedish players are the best in the world!