Mansour matloubi stu ungar biography
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Every Picture Tells a Story: Mansour Matloubi — Las Vegas, NV (1997)
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY:
MANSOUR MATLOUBI — LAS VEGAS, NV (1997)
I came across this old photo, which inspires several memories. I’ll share a few here and now.
I snapped this picture late at night in a high-stakes cash game at the 1997 World Series of Poker. The photo shows Mansour Matloubi, the 1990 world poker champion. Matloubi was born in Iran and living in London at the time he won. He broke traditions and shattered old barriers of the poker elite. Matloubi was the first “foreigner” to win the WSOP Main Event. Ironically, another Iranian-born player, Hamid Dastmalchi, won just two years later.
Matloubi wasn’t well-liked and frankly didn’t care. I think some of that nativist bias was from being Iranian. After all, this wasn’t so long after the Iran hostage crisis of the late 1970s. Matloubi wasn’t colorful and charismatic in the way other famous winners were, such as Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson, and Stu Ungar. But he played a fearless game and his talent was widely respected.
About a year after this photo was taken, Matloubi came to Atlantic City to play in the United States Poker Championships at the Taj Mahal, which I c
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Stu Ungar facts for kids
"Stuey" redirects here. For the film about his life with the alternate title Stuey, see High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story.
Quick facts for kids Stu Ungar | |
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Ungar at the 1981 World Series of Poker | |
| Nickname(s) | Stuey The Kid The Comeback Kid |
| Residence | New York City |
| Born | Stuart Errol Ungar (1953-09-08)September 8, 1953 Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Died | November 22, 1998(1998-11-22) (aged 45) Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. |
| World Series of Poker | |
| Bracelet(s) | 5 |
| Money finish(es) | 16 |
| Highest ITM Main Event finish | Winner, 1980, 1981, 1997 |
Stuart Errol Ungar (September 8, 1953 – November 22, 1998) was an American professional poker, blackjack, and gin rummy player, widely regarded to have been the greatest gin player of all time and one of the best Texas hold 'em players.
Ungar is one of two people in poker history to have won the World Series of Poker Main Event three times. He is the only person to win Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker three times, the world's second most prestigious poker title of its time. Additionally, Ungar is one of only four players in poker history to win consecutive titles in the WSOP Main Event, along with Johnny Moss, Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan.
Early life
Ungar was born to Jewish parents Is
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