Life Outside Poker: Sam Abernathy’s Journey from Poker Stardom to Motherhood

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

Within the thirty fourth episode, Connor talks with WSOP free-to-play app ambassador Sam Abernathy about rising up in Georgia, finding out design, the similarities between gymnastics and poker, ending third within the 2016 Aussie Thousands and thousands Essential Occasion, and a infamous sluggish roll she suffered in that occasion.

Abernathy additionally talks about first stepping into poker by means of the WSOP Play app earlier than turning into an envoy years later, motherhood and being married to fellow poker participant Lautaro Guerra, who completed fifteenth on this 12 months’s WSOP Essential Occasion for $450,000.

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

The Life Exterior Poker podcast is obtainable on main streaming platforms together with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud and iHeartRadio. You too can watch the interview with Samantha Abernathy by heading to the PokerNews YouTube channel.

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