Poker players often take a wandering, meandering route to their eventual career as game players. These days many take a bit more of the direct route, namely they play poker online, they win a seat into a big event, and suddenly they are a professional poker player. But for others a career as a pro poker player comes later in life, resurrecting a love with the game in a newly charged, enabling poker atmosphere. Such was the route for Barry Shulman, the owner and publisher of Card Player Magazine. There he found poker in college, when he was attending the University of Washington pursuing a degree in accounting. Hailing from Seattle, Washington, Barry eventually graduated from college and began a very long and very successful career as a real estate developer in Seattle. When he and his wife retired they moved to Las Vegas in the mid-1990s. For someone who played and loved the game of poker in college, they couldn't move to Las Vegas and not start playing poker again. There his love of poker was ignited once more and he used his retirement money to purchase a newsletter style handout publication that made the rounds of the casino. The name of the publication? Card Player. Now one of the most widely respected magazines in the poker industry, Card Player Magazine has grown quite a lot, as has Barry's poker game.
Barry is an "in the money" kind of poker player, passing the bubble in many major poker tournaments. Barry not only makes the money in the events, but also wins them. Some people have hobbies, that may dabble in and keep abreast of by reading and writing about them. There he took his hobby and made it his career, not only as a publisher but as a player as well. Traveling extensively to major tournaments all over the world, very hit to the poker cruises and events on three different continents to compete and keep readers abreast of what is happening in the world of poker.
