Nick Schulman is from Manhattan, NY.


Nick "The Takeover" Schulman was born 18 September 1984 and is an American professional poker player from Manhattan, New York.


Schulman began playing at the age of 18, turned professional at 19, and at age 21 won the fourth season World Poker Tour (WPT) World Poker Finals poker tournament, winning $2,167,500, a record for a regular season event on the WPT. He also became the youngest winner of a WPT event.


Less than a month later, Schulman finished 4th in the World Series of Poker circuit event in Atlantic City, winning a further $74,495.


In April 2006, Schulman won the WPT Battle of Champions IV event, eliminating Kassem "Freddy" Deeb to take the title.


Prior to winning the WPT event, Schulman had regularly played poker on the internet. He plays online at PokerStars as "TheTakeover" and on Party Poker as "oohpartypoka." He also plays on Ultimate Bet.






Winning Stats..

25-Apr-06 No Limit Hold'em World Poker Tour Battle of Champions IV, Las Vegas 1st $ 25,000
06-Dec-05 $ 9,700 Championship Event - No Limit Hold'em 2005 WSOP Tournament Circuit - Atlantic City, Atlantic City 4th $ 74,495

13-Nov-05 $ 10,000 WPT - No Limit Hold'em 2005 World Poker Finals, Mashantucket 1st $ 2,167,500

Joe Bartholdi wins 1st place and a prize of $3,760,165 also a $25,500 seat in WPT Championship Event at Bellagio on April 17, 2007 .

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Here are the top 10 leader in the Five Star World Poker Classic Starting Day 3



1 Patrik Antonius 554,500

2 Gregory Fondacaro 540,400
3 David Williams 497,500

4 Erik Lindgren 472,300
5 Shawn Bucahanan 462,100

6 Brad Booth 443,200
7 Abdul Fadeyi 398,000

8 Vinny Vinh 391,800
9 Mimi Tran 367,300

10 Marc Durand 366,300


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Here are the top 10 starting on day 2 of the Five Star World Poker Classic.


1 Simon Moussa 269,925
2 Gregory Fondacaro 260,150

3 Tony Bloom 244,575
4 Thanhdat Tran 215,550

5 Steve Sung 215,400
6 Chip Jett 208,400

7 Patrik Antonius 200,375
8 Brad Booth 199,150

9 Raymond Davis 195,850
10 Jamie Ligator 194,900



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Ravinderjilt Anand wins the Borgata Winter Poker Open with the first prize of $171,944.


Having played for less than 6 months and finding himself sitting in 1st place, I would say it will be hard to get Ravi away from the tournament circuit. This was his very first tournament ever. Not bad Ravi!


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