Sweden has no casinos left, and Poland won't let you play online. We removed both operators

We went to build out Poland and Sweden this week — our two largest gaps, and both markets our own configuration listed GGPoker against. Neither should have had an operator, and we have removed both.

**Sweden abolished its casinos.** Svenska Spel held a monopoly on land-based casinos through Casino Cosmopol. Sundsvall closed in 2020, Gothenburg and Malmö in February 2024, and Stockholm — the last land-based casino in the country — on 24 April 2025, affecting around 240 staff. Parliament had voted that month to ban land-based casinos from 1 January 2026; the operator, which said the business had been loss-making for years, simply closed early. Sweden now has nowhere to play live casino poker at all.

The online side is healthier, and properly run. The Gambling Act (Spellagen, SFS 2018:1138) has licensed online poker since January 2019 under Spelinspektionen, and winnings from a licensed operator are not taxable income — while winnings from an unlicensed one are treated as foreign-source income and taxed. That is a bigger number than any welcome bonus.

But **GGPoker names Sweden as a Restricted Jurisdiction in its own terms and conditions**, which we confirmed by reading them rather than a summary. So /se now shows information and no operator link.

**Poland reserves online poker to the state.** Under the Gambling Act of 19 November 2009, as amended from 1 April 2017, online casino gaming including poker against the house belongs to Totalizator Sportowy, trading as Total Casino. Private operators can be licensed for sports betting, bingo and promotional lotteries — not for poker. The Ministry of Finance maintains a public register of prohibited gambling domains, and internet providers and payment firms are required to act on it.

So there is no international room that can lawfully take a Polish player online, and /pl now says so instead of recommending one. Live poker in licensed Polish casinos is legal and unaffected, and that is where the page points people.

**A note on method.** Halfway through this we nearly published the opposite of the truth. A summarising fetch of GGPoker's terms told us Poland was a restricted jurisdiction and Sweden was too — but the list it had just quoted contained neither Poland nor Sweden. Reading the page directly showed Sweden named and Poland absent. A separate source confidently described Casino Cosmopol as "four venues" operating today, more than a year after the last one shut. Both would have been plausible-looking errors on a site people use to decide where to play. We check the primary page.

**What we did publish.** Four player profiles: Martin Jacobson, Sweden's 2014 WSOP Main Event champion with $18.49m and 89th on the all-time list; Niklas Astedt, the online great known as Lena900, second in Sweden with $9.74m; Wiktor Malinowski, Poland's leader on $13.68m with a $4,789,000 Triton Montenegro title; and Dominik Panka, whose 2014 PCA Main Event win first put Polish poker on the map and who was still finishing second in WSOP bracelet events this summer.

Both markets keep full pages. What they no longer have is a recommendation we could not stand behind.