"It's about my lack of respect for the WSOP and the management here and what they've done to the players.
That said, I still wouldn't wear it if I was best friends with them. When I had a chance to win years ago, I said I wouldn't wear it. I'm shocked that people
wear those ugly things," explains Jeff Shulman, talking about the WSOP bracelet. This guy wins the award for most dramatic poker player in the 2009 WSOP November Nine.
The 34-year-old COO of CardPlayer Magazine has made numerous threats to a world that he believes cares (but really doesn’t) about what he’s going to do if he wins the WSOP.
First of all, he doesn’t even want the bracelet, if he wins. He wants to auction it off to charity or host a new tournament for players supposedly shut out from the WSOP
and reward it to the winner. Furthermore, he says that if he wins he’ll never play poker again.
Shulman’s claims his bitterness towards the WSOP has nothing to do with the fact that his grandfather’s magazine, CardPlayer Magazine has no media coverage
rights to the WSOP, but rather it is the fact that he doesn’t like the way the tournament is managed.
While Shulman made a long and honorable statement about why he dislikes the WSOP and how he is taking a stand for poker players who were mistreated, at the
same time he dissed them by saying, "There were a lot of amateurs in this tournament who don't really understand how to play a deep stacked poker.” He continued,
"It was the easiest field I've ever seen in my life. I feel like everyone in the tournament was on Adderall while I was on Xanax."
Shulman is looking forward to November for business reasons: "It'll be great for my business, great exposure for CardPlayer and Spade Club…"
He’s already won about $1.3 million in his lifetime career of live tournament play, so he might be a bit challenging for some of his opponents.
However, with so much animosity in his heart, he may just have too much other stuff on his mind to focus on poker.
Read about all the WSOP 2009 November Nine.
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