Jimmy Shultz, nicknamed "Shultz”, “Sarg” or even “Shultzy", was born on the 8th of March, 1971, in Charleston, South Carolina and currently resides in Lewis Center, OH, United States. Jimmy Shultz works as an ordinary mortgage broker, but still steps into the poker world from time to time. He is not married and does not have any children.
Jimmy Shultz has entered only one live tournament for the 8 years in which he has been playing – the 39th World Series of Poker 2008. He entered two events: the Limit Hold'em (Event 20) $2,000 buy-in, where he took 42nd place and won $4,368, but that was not the event in which Jimmy Shultz became popular to the poker world. The second event in which he entered was the Limit Hold'em (Event 12) $1,500 buy-in, where he managed to reach 1st place among all 58720 players, that had entered the 39th WSOP. He earned $257,049 and his first WSOP bracelet. After winning Jimmy Shultz donated 25% of his earnings from the tournament to a special fund for firefighters in the Charleston Fire Department.
For the eight years spent playing, Jimmy has altogether one first place finish, one World Series of Poker bracelet, one money finish and a grand total in life winnings of $257,105.
His favorite game is No Limit Holdem and he has a lot of ambitions, such as becoming a football player, a basketball coach or just to be a really good role model to everyone. Jimmy Shultz`s hobbies aside from poker include playing softball, basketball and golf. He is a big fan of the Classical Rock style and loves to spend time just enjoying music. His favorite movie is Gladiator and favorite place to be is Rome. When asked what kinds of players he respects the most, Jimmy Shultz answered: “I respect any player that respects themselves enough to sit at a table with 8 or 9 other players all with the same goal in mind. The game is full of great players!”.