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Jamie Gold is a poker professional, American television producer, and a talent agent. He is best known for winning the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event, and currently spends time with both Hollywood and poker tournaments.

Originally born in Kansas City, he moved to New York at a young age, before moving to New Jersey. He eventually went to school at the State University of New York at Albany and then moved to Los Angeles to study entertainment law at UCLA. He started his entertainment career as an Internet at a talent agency, and then moved forward to bigger and brighter. He has worked for Jimmy Fallon and Lucy Liu, and it is said that an HBO character was modeled after him for the show Entourage.

As a child he began being fascinated with poker and started playing with professional poker players Johnny Chan and Chris Moneymaker. Chan would mentor Gold and after several years, Jamie Gold began an exciting career in poker. In 2005 Jamie Gold won his first major no limit Texas hold'em tournament, earning 54,225 dollars in the process. He would go on to play and cash out in seven more California tournaments.

Jamie Gold has an interesting style, which most professionals didn't really endorse or recommend when they first saw Jamie Gold at the 2006 WSOP. However, his neighbor, Poker Pro, Chris Ferguson told him to stick to his guns, and the unpopular style got him to the main event tournament the World Series of Poker and eventually came out on top. His style favors pressuring all of the players at the table, specifically while playing last to act in a round, which is unorthodox. Bluff Magazine analyzed his strategy, deducing the style into a single paragraph. Essentially his style forces opponents to risk their entire stack many times after being re-raised. It is said that he has an uncanny ability to know when someone has nothing or is bluffing, and therefore has a strategy system that works for him, but not necessarily recommended.

After his major victory in 2006 he has been working through several different pursuits, both in poker and television. His production deals have helped him get on popular poker television shows like NBC's Poker After Dark and GSN's High Stakes Poker. He has also chosen to use poker to help with a variety of costs. He has helped sponsor the World Series of Poker "Ante Up For Africa", Annie Duke's charity poker tournament, and has been working on a poker tournament to benefit those that have been affected by Lou Gehrig's disease.