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Jeff Shulman: November Nine Poker Player Profile
Jeff Shulman Profile
At 34 years of age, Jeff Shulman is one of the most experienced professional poker players to make the November Nine of the 2009 WSOP Main Event. Shulman has been playing poker most of his life, no surprise being the son of Barry Shulman, another famed professional poker player and the CEO of Card Player Magazine.
Jeff Shulman is employed at his father's business as the editor of Card Player Magazine. His poker career has earned him over $1.38 million over 38 live tournament cashes. That total is guaranteed to nearly double come this November as the WSOP final table plays out, where no man will walk away with less than $1.2 million for his efforts.
Jeff is not new to the WSOP Main Event, or the final table for that matter. Shulman finished 7th in the 2000 WSOP NL Holdem Championship. Will he be able to trump his previous finish this year? Jeff's chances are fairly good considering he sits in the fourth highest chip stack position with.
Jeff grew up in Seattle, Washington, but now spends his life under the bright lights of Las Vegas, Nevada where he works, both at Card Player and his poker career. As a professional poker player, Shulman has been incredibly successful playing live tournaments.
He cashed 9 times in 2000, another 11 times in 2001, and a whopping 14 in 2002. The next two years combined brought another 15 cashes. From 2006-08, Shulman slowed down a lot, claiming only 10 money finishes, with none yet in 2009. However, this will ultimately be his best year yet when the 2009 WSOP final table comes to a close on November 10th.
Jeff Shulman got quite the response from onlookers and poker fans at this year's WSOP Main Event, but not necessarily in a good way. As the last player was eliminated, declaring Shulman and either others the 'November Nine', Shulman commented that he would likely toss out the bracelet should he go on to win the WSOP championship.
You can imagine the controversy surrounding his proclamation at that point. Many speculated that it was a grudge against the World Series of Poker for giving Bluff Magazine, Card Player's rival, exclusive rights to WSOP coverage. Shulman discounts these accusations, however, stating “It’s my lack of respect for the WSOP and the management and what they’ve done to all of the players. I don’t like it.”
Some hard-core WSOP fans have gone so far as to say Jeff Shulman has no right to play in the WSOP, but the fact is, he battled through a field of 6,494 to get where he is, and play he shall. One would be left to wonder why he bothered to enter the Main Event to begin with, if he truly detests the tournament so vehemently.
Since the whole bracelet debacle began, Shulman retracted his desire to toss out the bracelet altogether. He now claims that, should he win it all, he will make good use of the WSOP bracelet, either auctioning it off for charity, giving it away as a prize on Card Player's subscription-bases poker site Spade Club, or holding a tournament for those who didn't make it to the November Nine and awarding it to the eventual winner.
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