Seat 3: Anton Bergstrom, 39, Lund, Sweden – 6,725,000
New ground could be broken on the European Poker Tour on Sunday when Sweden's Anton Bergstrom sits down at the final table in Prague. Despite his best documented EPT performance so far being a sixth-place finish in Barcelona on Season 2, Bergstrom has this week revealed a secret. The Swedish player, who is 39 years old, admitted that he is the previously-anonymous PokerStars player "WhatIfGod".
This is important news because back during the Covid years, PokerStars hosted two EPT Online tournaments, which are generally accepted as part of the official EPT canon. "WhatIfGod" won both EPT Online Main Events, making him one of only four people who have two EPT titles. Here in Prague, he has the best chance yet of becoming the first three-time EPT winner.
Bergstrom is a professional player of many years standing. He was only 20 when he broke onto the scene with that final table appearance in Barcelona and before this week, it remained his biggest-ever live score. But WhatIfGod is an online tournament crusher. The first EPT Online victory came with a prize of more than $1 million. The second came with a $364K prize. He has three WCOOP titles, including two from the 2014 series, and five SCOOP wins. Rarely a major series goes by without him visiting the winner's circle at least once.
Bergstrom, from Lund, near Malmo in Sweden, has already more than doubled his entire documented live tournament earnings thanks to his run to the last day here. And if he adds the title to his EPT Online double, he'll enter entirely uncharted territory.