John Tabatabai is a Welsh professional poker player (Lisvane, Cardiff) based in London, England.
[2] Before embarking on a professional poker playing career, Tabatabai was a chess player.
[3] In the final hand Annette Obrestad had a slight chip lead with 3,851,000 over Tabatabai with 3,381,000.
Tabatabai flat called the preflop raise which brought the pot to 208,000.
[1][3] In March 2008 John Tabatabai won the 12th All Africa Poker Tournament collecting the one million Rand ($127,584) pot.