Barry Shulman

Barry Shulman (born May 8, 1946 in Seattle, Washington) is an American poker player and the CEO of CardPlayer Magazine.

Shulman began playing poker while studying at college in the 1960s. He worked in real estate for 25 years before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in the early 1990s. He used his retirement funds to purchase Card Player in 1999.

Shulman first finished in the money in a World Series of Poker (WSOP) event in 1997 at the $3,000 pot limit hold’em event. He has gone on to cash another 8 times since then, and won a bracelet at the 2001 World Series of Poker in the $1,500 seven card stud hi-lo split 8 or better event.

In October 2003, Shulman made the final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Ultimatebet.com Poker Classic II in Aruba. He finished fourth in the event won by Erick Lindgren.

He has also made the final table of a Professional Poker Tour (PPT) event, finishing 2nd.

As of 2007, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,400,000.

Shulman has two sons. Jeff Shulman is president of CardPlayer Media and plays tournament poker. His eldest son, Michael D. Shulman is a photographer. Shulman also has two step-children from his second marriage, Jessica Horan, currently enrolled at Boston University’s School of Management and Julian Horan, a student at UC Santa Barbara.