What's up with Swedish/Norweigen players???

[Indiana]

They are winning the top few places every week in the stars tourney. This is very unusual as they make up a small % of the contestants. They must be incredible players over there to overcome such variability and fare so well week after week.

Unreal,

Indy

[MonkeeMan]

FWIW, a British player I met in Vegas believed that they are masters of on-line collusion.

[stokken]

BULLOCKS!! No more cheating, if any, here then elsewhere, but true dedication and firm belief that poker is a skill game, percistent ability to study study study and play with hearth and mind. An oil technology university in USA sendt lectureres over to norway to investigate the term"skippertak" which roughly transelates into the ability to get shitloads of work done acurately, with focus, and fast over a short period of time. Ideal for projects and the sorts. The reason was that scandinavian students seem to get the best of their speartime-going to parties etc, and the best of their studies-above average results as a group, due to not letting anything distract them when the [censored] hits the fan and exams/presentation is due. I believe that an asset many scandinavians posess is the ability to not go halfhearted about an interest-time is to valuable, so if one is going to dedicate time it is done with conviction and dedication and few believ in second best. On the outside many appear to not want to front themselves with words, but speak with action and everybody wants to become winners at their respective fields.

I am sure you will find players that dont fare so well, and it is also a question of how long they have played( maybe you didnt notice them when they where at the wrong side of the scale?), and I believe that scandinavians who loose and dont comitt them selves to poker, rather quit then hang around as donks hoping to score the lucky one

For what it is worth, Stokken. Indy what you preach/question is BS !!!

[CardSharpCook]

If you lived in that landof ice and snow, you'd play a lot more poker. And you'd take it much more seriously too, because poker may be your ticket out of there. Don't Swedes have a redicullus tax rate too? Perhaps gambling income isn't taxed? Scandanavian players who see this, can you tell us about your tax situation?

[Indiana]

I'm not sure how much more poker I'd play with all those hot swedish girls walking around. This effect though, is incredible given how few of them there are and how much variance there is in an online tourney like this. I'm suprised that there aren't posts everywhere and further investigations into this. They are either running an excellent school of poker over there or they are big cheaters. I'm just not sure.

Indy

[Rickyroodido]

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If you lived in that landof ice and snow, you'd play a lot more poker. And you'd take it much more seriously too, because poker may be your ticket out of there. Don't Swedes have a redicullus tax rate too? Perhaps gambling income isn't taxed? Scandanavian players who see this, can you tell us about your tax situation?

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In Sweden we have the highest taxes in the world. Everything is taxed in some way; alcohol, food, tobaco, and to a certain degree poker. If we play on stars I think we should pay tax, but if we win on a europesite, like Prima, its taxfree. The same thing goes live; in Europe free, at lasvegas taxed.
There is a big discussion about poker and taxes. Swedish pros want to pay standard taxes on their winnings, like an ordinary job, claiming its not about luck like other forms of gambling. If they win that discussion it would be alot cheaper to win outside of Europe since the gambling taxes are much higher.

Another issue is the Swedish gambling monopoly. The only place to play live legally is at the state facillity "Casino Cosmopol", with a killer rake. This could explain why many Swedes gamble online.

We have to pay taxes on stars? Oh....

[Rickyroodido]

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We have to pay taxes on stars? Oh....

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No I dont think so, its an English site isnt?
Sorry about that.
But we "have to" pay on Party. They only check highstakes gamblers, however.

[jusander]

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We have to pay taxes on stars? Oh....

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No I dont think so, its an English site isnt?
Sorry about that.
But we "have to" pay on Party. They only check highstakes gamblers, however.

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At least in Finland you only have to pay taxes if the country where the 'site' is located doesn't belong to EEA (Europen Economic Area, Which basicly means EU + Norway, Island and Liechtenstein).

[Yuv]

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If you lived in that landof ice and snow, you'd play a lot more poker. And you'd take it much more seriously too, because poker may be your ticket out of there.

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Were you kidding there? Who needs a ticket out of the highest ranked countires in education, economy and pretty much every ranking known to man? Scandinavian countries are the prototype that every other country in the world should aspire to copy, even (and maybe especially) the great United State of America.