Hamid Reza Dastmalchi ( fa, حمیدرضا دستمالچی) is an
Iranian-American
Iranian Americans are United States citizens or nationals who are of Iranian ancestry or who hold Iranian citizenship.
Iranian Americans are among the most highly educated people in the United States. They have historically excelled in busine ...
professional
poker
Poker is a family of comparing card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules. It is played worldwide, however in some places the rules may vary. While the earliest known form of the game w ...
player.
Dastmalchi won the
1992 World Series of Poker
The 1992 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe.
Preliminary events
Main Event
There were 201 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter the tournament. Until the 2007 WSOP Main ...
(WSOP) Main Event, which is his largest tournament win at $1 million. He again made the final table of the Main Event in 1995, finishing in fourth place.
Dastmalchi was involved in a legal dispute in 1999 with
Binion's Horseshoe
Binion's Gambling Hall & Hotel, formerly Binion's Horseshoe, is a casino on Fremont Street along the Fremont Street Experience mall in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. It is owned by TLC Casino Enterprises. The casino is named for its founder, Benny ...
after the new management would not let him cash in $865,000 in chips he had won under the prior management. A gaming commission ultimately ruled the chips should be cashed.
In his career, Dastmalchi has won three WSOP bracelets, his last victory coming in 1993.
Dastmalchi's last major tournament cash came in 2002 in the
World Poker Tour
The World Poker Tour (WPT) is an internationally televised gaming and entertainment brand. Since 2002, the World Poker Tour has operated a series of international poker tournaments and associated television series broadcasting playdown and the fi ...
Five Diamond World Poker Classic.
Although he rarely plays in tournaments anymore, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,800,000 as of 2009, with his ten cashes at the WSOP accounting for $1,600,760 of those winnings.
World Series of Poker Earnings
, worldseriesofpoker.com
World Series of Poker Bracelets
References
External links
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American people of Iranian descent
American poker players
Iranian poker players
World Series of Poker bracelet winners
World Series of Poker Main Event winners