Anton Wigg

Anton Wigg
Personal information
Year of birth	1987
place of birth	Jarna
Nicknames 0 0 0	antesvantePokerStars & Full Tilt Poker Antes08partypoker Rollaround88PokerStars.FR itsasatchelWinamax
place of residence	Stockholm
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	0.$ 672,818
Total prize money	$ 2,868,056
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	no
Cashes	15th
Best main event	298th ( 2012 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	3
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	1
Cashes	11
Main Event of party poker Live
title	no
Cashes	4th
Last updated: April 13, 2020

Erik Anton Wigg (* 1987 in Järna ) is a professional Swedish poker player .

Poker career

On-line

Wigg has been playing online since August 2006 under the nicknames antesvante ( PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker ) , Antes08 ( partypoker ) , Rollaround88 (PokerStars.FR) and itsasatchel ( Winamax ) . Its online tournament earnings are in excess of 8 million US dollars , with the majority of over 5.5 million dollars on PokerStars was earned. There he won the Sunday Million in April 2009 , his highest ever online prize money of just under 230,000 US dollars. In 2015, Wigg was temporarily in second place in the PocketFives ranking, which lists the most successful online poker tournament players worldwide.

live

Since 2007, Wigg has also been taking part in renowned live tournaments .

Wigg prevailed at the main event of the European Masters of Poker in Barcelona at the beginning of August 2009 and received a prize money of more than 55,000 euros . In mid-February 2010 he also won the main event of the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Copenhagen and secured the main prize of the equivalent of over 670,000 US dollars. In September 2010, Wigg came in the money at the World Series of Poker Europe played in London in a tournament of the No Limit Hold'em variant . At the EPT Copenhagen in February 2011 he achieved a third and a first place, which brought him prize money of around 100,000 US dollars. In December 2011 he also won a side event at the EPT in Prague and secured a prize money of 72,000 euros. In July 2012 , Wigg was successful for the first time in the main tournament series of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and reached the paid places in the main event . At EPT Barcelona he achieved two top 3 placements in August 2014 and secured over 140,000 euros. In early October 2017, Wigg won the high roller of the WSOP circuit in Hollywood , Florida , for which he received a prize of more than 110,000 US dollars and a circuit ring. In mid-November 2018, he finished tenth at the main event of the partypoker Caribbean Poker Party in Nassau , Bahamas, for $ 110,000.

In total, Wigg has earned almost three million US dollars with poker in live tournaments. From April to November 2016 he played as part of the San Francisco Rush in the Global Poker League and made it to the playoffs with his team.

Web links

• Anton Wigg in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Anton Wigg in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• Anton Wigg in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)
• Anton Wigg in the database of Pocket Fives (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anton Wigg in the database of the Global Poker Index, accessed on February 12, 2020 (English).
2. ↑ ^{a b} AnteSvante in the PocketFives database, accessed on February 12, 2020 (English).
3. ↑ Sunday Million [$ 215 NLHE - $ 1.5M guaranteed] in PocketFives' database, accessed February 12, 2020.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Anton Wigg in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 12, 2020 (English).
5. ↑ European Masters of Poker (€ 1,000 + 150 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 12, 2020 (English).
6. ↑ EPT - 6 - Copenhagen (DKr 35,000 + 2,250 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 12, 2020 (English).
7. ↑ 2010 World Series Of Poker - Europe (£ 1,000 + 75 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 12, 2020.
8. ↑ EPT - 7 - Copenhagen (DKr 15,000 + 1,200 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 12, 2020 (English).
9. ↑ EPT - 7 - Copenhagen (DKr 50,000 + 2,990 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 12, 2020 (English).
10. ↑ EPT - 8 - EUREKA - 1 - Prague (€ 5,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - 6 Max Turbo) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 12, 2020 (English).
11. ↑ 43rd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2012 ($ 10,000 World Championship - No Limit Hold'em (Event # 61)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 12, 2020.
12. ↑ EPT - 11 - ESPT - 5 - Barcelona (€ 2,000 + 150 # 12 NLH / PLO - Turbo 8Max) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 12, 2020 (English).
13. ↑ EPT - 11 - ESPT - 5 - Barcelona (€ 2,000 + 200 # 23 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 12, 2020.
14. ↑ WSOP Circuit - Seminole Hard Rock ($ 3,250 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller (Event # 12)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 12, 2020.
15. ↑ partypoker Caribbean Poker Party ($ 5,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Caribbean Poker Party Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 12, 2020.
16. ↑ San Francisco Rush on the Global Poker League website, accessed February 12, 2020.