Mansour Matloubi

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Mansour Matloubi
  Personal information  
Year of birth 1952
Country of birth IranIran Iran
place of residence United KingdomUnited Kingdom 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

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).