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Mustapha was born in Italy in 1980 and makes his home in Ravenna. He started playing poker with friends in π 2008 while in college, both live and online at PokerStars. In 2009, he decided to quit school and devote his π time to poker.
Mustaphaβs first live event cash came at the 2009 La Notte Degli Assi in Milan, where he finished π 44th in the β¬300 NLHE for β¬500. His other cashes that year were at the Red Sea Poker Cup Sharm π el Sheikh, where he cashed twice, along with a money finish at the Italian Rounders Poker Tour Campione, Cassin.
In 2010, π Mustapha cashed 11 times, starting with a runner-up finish in the β¬1,000 NLHE at the Malta Poker Dream Portomaso for π β¬53,500. After cashing at the Assogold Grand Slam of Poker, the EPT Grand Final Monte Carlo, and cashing twice at π the EPT San Remo, he won the SFr500 NLHE at the Italian Rounders Poker Club to earn SFr26,864. At the π Estrellas Poker Tour, he finished 5th for β¬13,000 in the β¬910 NLHE Main Event, and went on to cash at π both the
IPT and the Poker Grand Prix in Venice.
To finish 2010, Mustapha was runner-up for β¬16,000 in the β¬700 NLHE π IPT Nova Gorica, and won the β¬640 NLHE at the IPT Malta to earn β¬24,000.