Mansour Matloubi

Mansour Matloubi
Personal information
Year of birth	1952
Country of birth	Iran
place of residence	London
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	0.$ 835,000
Total prize money	$ 2,018,560
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	1
Cashes	14th
Best main event	Win ( 1990 )
Last updated: March 16, 2020

Mansour Matloubi (* 1952 in Iran ) is a former British poker player of Iranian descent from Wales . He became the first non-American to win the World Poker Championship in 1990 .

Career

Matloubi was a very active tournament player in the 1990s . At the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas in 1990 , Matloubi defeated American Hans Lund and won the first prize of $ 835,000 in the main WSOP tournament . This made him the first non-American to win this tournament.

In his poker career, he has won over $ 2 million in official live poker tournaments.

Web links

• Mansour Matloubi in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Mansour Matloubi in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• Mansour Matloubi in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Day One of the Million (Part 02) ( Memento of August 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on pokerpages.com, accessed on May 8, 2016 (English).
2. ↑ Mansour Matloubi in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on 16 March 2020 (English).