As our resident poker expert, Martin Jacobson has taken home over $30 million in tournament earnings throughout his career. A third of that came from just one tournament, where the card shark Swede took home the fifth-largest payout in poker history. Read that story and more here, as we look at Jacobson’s three biggest wins at this nerve-shredding sport.

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1. $10 Million Pot at the 2014 World Series
Let’s start with the largest - the time Martin Jacobson entered the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em event at the 2014 World Series of Poker. He ended the first day with an early chip lead, though he’d slipped to a perilous eighth chip ranking for the final table of just nine players. Despite this, Jacobson survived to go head-to-head with fellow Scandinavian Felix Stephensen. His double red 10s beat out Stephensen’s Ace and 9 of Hearts after another ten and then a king were dealt.

The whole thing was captured on camera, viewable below, and was the second-biggest WSOP pot of its time. It came just one year after these tournaments started streaming online in 2013 as the WSOP began to capitalize on the large online audience that play and watch poker, as well as consuming poker news through the internet. That’s a trend that has grown since, as digital services have improved and made it much easier for even amateur players to stream their games online.

2. $800k at the 2013 World Series
In fact, it was during the 2013 WSOP event where Martin Jacobson put himself on most poker fans’ maps. During Event 47, Jacobson played a game of $111,111 One Drop High Rollers No-Limit Hold’em. Out of 166 entrants, Jacobson had made it to the final table of just eight players. He placed sixth, leaving with a $807,427 prize. The table ultimately came down to Anthony Gregg beating Chris Klodnicki for a $4.8 million prize and his first WSOP bracelet.

It may sound like a loss in retrospect, but this was Jacobson’s largest prize pot at the time. It showed he was capable of competing at the biggest televised poker event of all, and when he came back next year, he’d go all the way, win more money than Gregg, and claim a WSOP bracelet of his own.

3. $762k at the EPT Deauville Main Event
To find Jacobson’s third-largest win, we need to go back to 2011, to the European Poker Tour Deauville Main Event. Jacobson entered the EPT’s final table in a very strong position - he was the chip leader with 7.2 million chips to his name. That chip stack was slowly ground down over the last day, as most players folded out. This was because Lucien Cohen, who entered the day with just 3 million chips, had pulled off a winning streak that forced everyone else off the table.

In the end, Jacobson went all-in against Cohen with a 7 and 6 of Hearts against Cohen’s Ace of Spades and King of Diamonds. The flop was 10 of Spades, 9 of Clubs, and 3 of Spades, the turn – 3 of Hearts – and then a final Jack of Hearts river sealed Cohen’s win and sent Jacobson home with €560,000 ($762k at the time). It was a close shave that could have been Jacobson’s first big #1 placement, but the cards favored Lucien Cohen in a big way.

Those are Martin Jacobson’s biggest wins to date, in a long-running career that spans over $12 million generated through prize pots. Jacobson still plays poker as of 2025, along with various entrepreneurial pursuits, but he hasn’t dethroned his three biggest wins yet.