The Scoop: Jeff Shulman

Adam, Diego, Jeff.

Great interview. Jeff's critcism of the WSOP and Harrah's included many things that I've been saying to Jeffrey Pollack in person and by e-mail for years. Jeffrey, as many people do, has been making excuses in an effort to attempt to justify errors and inconsistencies.

Also: Adam, good job at making the effort to correctly pronounce Bertrand Grospellier's (Elky in the online world) last name -
[Grow-pell-yay]. Sure, it's French. But I've never seen any signs of anyone else even asking how to pronounce it.

The Scoop is great and I look forward to future interviews.

Also, regarding Hellmuth's penalty in 2008 that was overturned, from what I understand, Hellmuth did not appeal the penalty to Pollack. When I e-mailed Jeffrey about the alleged appeal and overturn of the penalty, Jeffrey said, "The fact is that our inquiry started solely with our internal team and proceeded from there."

I also noticed that these stupid entrances by Hellmuth appear to happen on a schedule with Harrah's support and security running the show. I wonder if Harrah's is paying his main event buy-in in accordance with Mike Matusow's characterization of Hellmuth as a "Whore For Harrah's."