Life Outside Poker: Abby Merk Left Corporate Job to Become One of Poker’s Top Creators

Life Outdoors Poker is a podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to drag again the curtain on poker gamers and permit viewers and listeners to get to know them on a private stage.

Within the thirty second episode, Connor talks with International Poker Award-winning content material creator Abby Merk about rising up in Chicago, finding out philosophy at Wake Forest College, leaving her company job to turn out to be certainly one of poker’s high creators, enjoying her first World Collection of Poker in 2021, making a objective to publish each day content material and being nominated for 2 International Poker Awards.

Merk additionally talks about battling with high-stakes professional Stephen Chidwick within the WSOP Most important Occasion and being on the closing desk for a 2023 controversy over a person successful a girls poker event in Florida.

This interview was filmed on the 2025 WSOP at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.

The Life Outdoors Poker podcast is accessible on main streaming platforms together with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud and iHeartRadio. It’s also possible to watch the interview with Abby Merk by heading to the PokerNews YouTube channel.

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