Niklas "Lena900" Astedt Net Worth 2026: Online Winnings & PocketFives Record

We estimate Niklas Astedt’s net worth at $12 million to $23 million, and no source publishes a confirmed figure. Better known by the screen name Lena900, the Swedish professional had won $48,866,883 in tracked online tournament cashes by July 2024, the highest total on the PocketFives all-time list. That put him more than $13 million clear of his nearest rival, fellow Swede Simon “C.Darwin2” Mattsson.

That standing cannot be checked today. PokerStake removed its online rankings in October 2024, so the figure above is a dated snapshot rather than a current position, and we treat it that way throughout this profile.

Away from the screen, Astedt has $9,086,935 in tracked live earnings from 127 cashes. That is barely a fifth of his online total, a ratio almost no player at his level shares. Two results built most of it: third place in the 2024 WSOP Main Event for $4,000,000, and a €50,000 Super High Roller title at EPT Paris in February 2026.

He is from Gothenburg and has been playing professionally for close to two decades. He plays a full live schedule but has never courted the attention his record would justify, keeping no public social media accounts and giving few interviews.

Every figure here carries a named source and a check date. The live earnings above come from The Hendon Mob, checked on 7 August 2026, and they move with every tracked event.

This profile separates what is verified from what is estimated, and where the sources disagree we say so rather than taking the more flattering number. It sits alongside our directory of professional poker player profiles.

We estimate Niklas Astedt’s net worth at $12 million to $23 million. No source publishes a confirmed figure, and the two that publish an estimate sit five times apart.

That range is ours. It is derived from his tracked record across online and live poker, with the deductions set out in full below.

What is Niklas Astedt’s net worth?

Astedt has never spoken publicly about his finances, so there is no statement to build on. Unlike players who discuss bankroll or backing on podcasts, he has left no trail.

What can be worked with is the tracked record. Roughly $58 million in gross cashes across online and live poker, of which around 84% was won online.

Our range assumes he kept between a fifth and two fifths of that gross figure. The lower end reflects the entry costs behind very high tournament volume, the upper end reflects the reporting on how he funds his own play, set out below.

Why do Niklas Astedt net worth estimates vary?

Two sites publish a figure for him and they are not close. What separates them is not access to better information, because neither has any, but whether they show their working at all.

A player who enters thousands of tournaments has spent an enormous amount before winning anything at all. SoMuchPoker’s refusal to name a figure is more defensible than publishing one without a method, which is why our own range appears in that table with its reasoning attached rather than on its own.

What can we verify about his earnings?

One figure is auditable: $9,086,935 in tracked live tournament earnings across 127 cashes, per The Hendon Mob, checked on 7 August 2026. That places him 228th on the all-time money list.

Card Player records a higher total of $10,496,329, and the gap is explained rather than disputed. Its footnote states that it counts online events with confirmed real-name results alongside live ones, which The Hendon Mob does not.

His online record is the larger number and the harder one. $48,866,883 was the figure published by PokerStars in July 2024, and it has not moved since, because the ranking that tracked it was taken down three months later.

Five things sit outside those gross totals, and every one of them moves the real number downwards.

His gross record is auditable in part and his net position is not. Any figure, ours included, is an informed estimate rather than a disclosed number.

Astedt’s career splits cleanly in two. There is a long stretch of cash game play that produced nothing memorable, and then a switch to tournaments in his mid twenties that produced one of the largest records in the game.

Who is Niklas Astedt?

Niklas Astedt is a Swedish professional poker player who competes online as Lena900. He built the largest tracked online tournament record in poker, then added a $4,000,000 finish at the 2024 WSOP Main Event and a European Poker Tour Super High Roller title in 2026.

He is unusual among players at his level for how little of himself is public. He runs no vlog, no podcast and no coaching business, and almost everything known about him comes from results databases rather than from interviews.

How did Niklas Astedt start playing poker?

He started in cash games, and by his own account he did not manage his money well while he played them. PokerNews reports that he describes his early bankroll handling as poor, which is a candid thing for a player of his standing to say out loud.

The turn came at 24, when he moved his focus to multi-table tournaments. Within three years he was ranked number one in the world online.

He was not a prodigy who arrived fully formed. The record he is known for was built almost entirely after that switch, having spent his early years in a format he later left behind.

How old is Niklas Astedt?

Astedt was born on 21 October 1990, which makes him 35. He was born in Partille, a municipality on the eastern edge of Gothenburg in Västra Götaland, and still lives in the Gothenburg area.

He has stayed in Sweden throughout his career. Many online tournament players relocate to Malta, Mexico or the United Kingdom to reach more sites or better terms, and he has not, despite the limits that come with playing from a regulated Swedish poker market.

Astedt’s live record is respectable and his online record is historic, and the two are not close. Almost 84% of everything he has won came online rather than at a live table, which is close to the reverse of how most players at his level are built.

How much has Lena900 won online?

$48,866,883, according to the figure PokerStars published in July 2024. That was the highest total on the PocketFives all-time online money list at the time.

That number has not moved since, and there is nothing left to move it.

What the progression shows is how late most of it arrived. He passed $17 million in early 2020 and added more than $31 million in the four and a half years that followed.

Was Niklas Astedt the biggest online tournament winner of all time?

On the PocketFives all-time list, yes, and by a wide margin. When PokerStars published the Lena900 total in July 2024, fellow Swede Simon “C.Darwin2” Mattsson sat second on $35.3 million, more than $13 million behind.

The position changed hands more than once. Lena900 took it from Péter Traply in January 2020, lost it to Portugal’s João “Naza114” Vieira in April 2021, and later took it back.

Two caveats travel with the claim, and neither is small. One is that the list no longer exists. The other is that it never captured everyone in the first place.

How complete was the PocketFives list?

It only ever counted results that players chose to make visible. Screen names had to be attached to a profile before their scores were included, which meant a player who kept his accounts private simply did not appear.

That was not a small gap at the top end. Several high stakes regulars sat outside the rankings for years and then jumped straight into the upper places when they revealed their accounts, Traply and András Németh among them.

We made this point in our own coverage back in January 2020, when we first reported Astedt reaching number one, and it applies just as much to the final standings. The list was the best record available rather than a complete one. For wider context on how the era’s leading players compare, see our guide to the best online poker players of all time.

PocketFives rankings and Player of the Year titles

Lena900 won PocketFives Player of the Year in 2018 and again in 2019, back to back. The account spent 97 weeks in total at number one, which is 23 weeks more than any other player managed.

Sources disagree on his longest unbroken run at the top, and the gap is eleven weeks.

We carry 33 because it is the figure the two independent sources agree on. The 97 week cumulative total is consistent everywhere and is the safer record to cite.

The recognition that counts for most came from other players. In a May 2021 PocketFives poll, he was voted the best online player in history, taking 54.3% of 4,898 votes in a final against Chris Moorman.

Can you find Lena900 on SharkScope?

This is one of the most common searches attached to his name, and the answer is less simple than it looks. SharkScope tracks PokerStars results on an opt in basis, so a player’s data appears there only if their account is set to allow it.

By default, PokerStars accounts are excluded from SharkScope unless the player enables data sharing, which is why many high volume regulars return no results there at all. We could not confirm either way whether the Lena900 account is opted in. Forum posts claim it is not, but no source we could verify says so, and we are not going to state it as fact on that basis.

What this means in practice is that SharkScope is not a reliable way to check his totals. The figures on this page come from PokerStars, The Hendon Mob and WSOP.com instead.

What are Lena900’s other screen names?

The record is associated with one name, but he has played under at least ten across different sites and jurisdictions. PokerStars lists the following.

The GGPoker account matters for a practical reason. Because he played there under his real name, those results are picked up by databases that track live tournaments, which is why Card Player’s earnings total for him runs higher than The Hendon Mob’s.

The total is built from volume rather than from a handful of enormous scores. More than 45 of his online cashes are worth over $100,000, and at least six are worth $400,000 or more, per PokerNews.

What is Lena900’s biggest online cash?

$1,095,741, won between 11 and 13 April 2021 in the $25,500 Sunday Five Million at the GG Spring Festival on GGPoker. It remains his only seven figure online score.

It is worth being precise here, because our own earlier coverage was not. An article we published in 2024 described his best online result as $762,253 from a $525 buy in event, which conflated two different tournaments and understated the figure by more than $330,000.

The $525 event was the WSOP Super Circuit Online Series Main Event, covered below, and the winner’s share there is recorded at $758,443.29 rather than $762,253.

These are the largest results we can attach to a named event, a date and a published payout. A complete ranked list of his online cashes no longer exists anywhere, because the database that held it was taken offline, so we do not present this as a definitive top four.

The 2021 WSOP Super Circuit Online Series Main Event

This is the result that gave him a WSOP title of any kind. He won the $525 Main Event on GGPoker for $758,443.29, beating a field of 14,496 entries.

He defeated Yanfei “aoteman1888” Chi heads up to take it. The win carried a WSOP Circuit ring, his first, and made him the inaugural member of Team GGPoker Champions.

The buy in is the striking part. A $525 entry returning more than $758,000 is a return of roughly 1,445 to one, and it came from the largest field he has ever beaten.

How many SCOOP and WCOOP titles has Niklas Astedt won?

This is the hardest number on the page to state, and anyone giving you a single figure without a date attached is guessing. The counts have been reported differently by different sources at different times, and both series run every year.

Our position is that he has around ten titles in each series, with eleven SCOOP wins as of the 2025 series per PokerNews. We are not going to publish a precise combined figure, because no source we trust publishes one with a date attached.

For most of his career the live record was an afterthought. That changed across two results eighteen months apart, both of which came after he had already been the top online tournament earner in the game for years.

How much has Niklas Astedt won in live tournaments?

$9,086,935 across 127 cashes, per The Hendon Mob, checked on 7 August 2026. That is 228th on the all-time money list.

Two results account for more than half of it. Third place at the 2024 WSOP Main Event brought $4,000,000, and the €50,000 Super High Roller Second Chance at EPT Paris in February 2026 brought €625,600, worth $738,208 at the time.

Before those, his best live result was fourth in the EPT Barcelona Main Event in August 2015 for €336,700. He has also finished runner up in a €50,000 Super High Roller at EPT Prague.

The 2024 WSOP Main Event

He finished third for $4,000,000 from a record field of 10,112 entries and a prize pool of $94,041,600. It is comfortably the largest cash of his career in any format.

He reached the nine handed final table third in chips with 94.2 million, about 59 big blinds, then built that into the lead. He returned for the final day on 223 million as the clear favourite to win it.

It lasted nine hands. Jordan Griff moved all in for 159,000,000, and Astedt called with top pair of jacks and a straight draw, running into a set of nines.

The title and the $10,000,000 first prize went to Jonathan Tamayo, whose win is listed in our record of every WSOP Main Event champion.

The 2026 EPT Paris Super High Roller

This is the biggest live title of his career, and he nearly did not play it. He had already busted the €5,300 EPT Paris Main Event in 200th place for €8,550, and entered the Second Chance late on day one.

He beat a field of 35 entries from a prize pool of €1,646,400, taking €625,600 for the win. Mikalai Vaskaboinikau finished second for €403,400 and Punnat Punsri third.

The final hand came on a board of A♣ 7♥ 5♦ 3♥ 8♦. Vaskaboinikau moved all in holding A♥8♣ for top two pair, and Astedt called with 6♦4♥ for a straight made on the turn.

Does Niklas Astedt have a WSOP bracelet?

No. He has never won a live World Series bracelet, and his best Main Event finish remains the third place in 2024.

The ring and cash counts published by WSOP.com need care, because they combine live and online results. Reading them as a live record would substantially overstate what he has done in Las Vegas.

The live column comes from Wikipedia and the combined column from his WSOP.com player page. The gap between 18 and 311 is the online Circuit and bracelet events he has played on GGPoker, and it is why his first WSOP title was a ring won at a screen rather than a bracelet won in a casino.

Astedt does not talk about strategy publicly, so what follows is drawn from his record rather than from anything he has explained. There are no training videos, no coaching business and no hand breakdowns to work from.

What is Niklas Astedt’s playing style?

He plays an enormous number of entries and accepts that the outcome of any single one barely matters. That is the whole method, and the record bears it out.

On the physical demands of live poker, he has said that people calling it a marathon “should try 20 tables for 40 days during SCOOP”. That line describes his method better than any analysis of his hand ranges could.

Does Niklas Astedt sell action?

The wording, as reported, is “I never sell action. I always play on my own”. If accurate, that is unusual at his level, because selling percentages is how most players at high buy-ins manage their downside.

We have flagged this as reported rather than verified. The quote appears in secondary poker media rather than in an interview we can point to directly, and it is one of the assumptions carrying our net worth range.

How does his live game compare to his online game?

The split covered earlier is partly a choice and partly arithmetic. An online grinder can enter several hundred tournaments in the time a live player enters one, so the online record accumulates at a speed a live schedule cannot match.

The choice is where it gets interesting. He kept playing online at that volume long after the live circuit would have had him, and he still does.

It also means his live results carry more variance in how they read. A player with 127 live cashes has a far smaller sample than one with thousands, which is why a single Main Event run reshaped his live record in a way it never could have reshaped his online one. Our MTT variance calculator shows how sample size affects results at any volume.

This section is updated as new results come in. Last reviewed: August 2026.

Is Niklas Astedt still playing poker?

Yes, and 2026 has already given him the biggest live title of his career. The EPT Paris Super High Roller in February was his first major live win after eighteen years of tracked results.

He has stayed active online through the year as well, reaching heads up at the PokerStars Anniversary Series in May before losing to Aleks Dimitrov. There is no sign of him reducing his schedule.

The gap since April is worth noting rather than explaining away. He has no tracked live cash after 8 April, and we found no record of him cashing at the 2026 World Series in Las Vegas, which ran from late May to mid July.

That may mean he skipped it, or it may mean a result exists that the databases have not surfaced. We are not going to guess, and we will update this section when the position is clear.

For everything else from the circuit, see our WSOP results tracker and our latest poker news and tournament results.

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This profile separates verified facts from estimates and reported claims. Where the record is incomplete or the sources disagree, we say so rather than filling the gap.

How we handle net worth

Net worth figures for poker players are not a matter of public record. We do not repeat estimates from sites that publish a number without disclosing how they reached it.

Where we publish a range, it is derived from tracked earnings with the deductions set out in full. For Astedt the range is entirely our own, and it rests in part on a reported statement that he never sells action, which we could not verify from a primary source.

How we report earnings

Live tournament earnings come from The Hendon Mob and are gross payouts, not profit. Buy-ins, re-entries, swaps, travel and tax all sit outside them, and the figure carries the date it was checked because it moves after every tracked event.

Online earnings are a harder case. The $48,866,883 total comes from PokerStars and was accurate as of July 2024, and because the ranking behind it was withdrawn three months later, no source can currently confirm or update it. We date it rather than presenting it as live.

How we treat disputed claims

Five things on this page are contested, unconfirmed or frozen, and each is flagged where it appears rather than resolved silently.

A note on correcting ourselves

Two claims on this page correct our own earlier coverage. We previously reported his best online result as $762,253 from a $525 event, which conflated two tournaments, and an older article slug claims a fourth PokerStars Titans title that no source supports.

Both are noted where they appear rather than quietly dropped. A profile that applies a sourcing standard to other publishers and not to itself is not worth reading.

A note on what we can link

Several claims here rest on reporting by poker media outlets we do not link to. Those outlets are named in the text wherever their reporting is the source, so the attribution is visible even where the link is not.

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