It wasn't a long time ago since Jonas "Nebuchad Danielsson, one of Sweden's best online poker players, wrote in his blog that he had decided to quit poker and do something else instead. The reason for this was that he had lost his interest in playing poker and also his edge the few times he played.

Now, another famous Swedish poker player has decided to quit poker. Robert V Lux is a very well known poker player in Sweden. Lux has won the Nordic championship, played in most of the major poker tournaments around the globe, and also had a huge success online at the medium stakes under the alias "Dödarn".

"I won't miss poker because I have lost the interest, totally. However, I will miss the money and the lifestyle." said Robert V Lux.

 

Ramzi Jelassi, 22, from Sweden, won IPT (Italian Poker Tour) in San Remo yesterday and took home the first prize of 170,000 EURO. This is Ramzi's second big title in the previous 8 months. In December he won the side event to EPT Prag and received around 130,000 EURO. Ramzi Jelassi, also did very well in this year's WSOP Main Event, but unfortunately he went out before the really BIG MONEY (425th place - $27,469).

FINAL TABLE RESULTS:
1 Ramzi Jelassi - €170 000
2 Andrea Sapere - €100 000
3 Francesco Veronese - €68 000
4 Massimo Di Cicco - €50 000
5 Giuseppe Pipino - €39 000
6 Roberto Pompei - €28 000
7 Claudio Rinaldi - €18 000
8 Niccolò Domeniconi - €13 000

 

Yesterday it was once again time for the most popular online tournament, Sunday Million at PokerStars. 8342 players signed up for the tournament and created a prize pool of $1,67 million dollars. 1260 players would get a share of the $1,67 million prize pool and the winner would get $245,421. However, it came to be 2 Swedish poker players that ended up playing heads-up against each other.

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