# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/greg-merson
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:30:53.268Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/greg-merson"
name: "Greg Merson"
slug: "greg-merson"
description: "Gregory Merson is an American professional poker player. Merson is best known as the winner of the Main Event at the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP). During the same year, he also won a WSOP bracelet in the $10,000 Six Handed No-Limit Hold'em World Championship. Largely as a result of these two championships, he was the 2012 WSOP Player of the Year. He is an online shorthanded cash game poker professional."
tagline: "American poker player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Greg_Merson_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1987-12-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.297410666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://gregmersonpoker.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Merson"
    title: "Greg Merson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%BA_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "غريغ ميرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جريج ميرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Merson"
    title: "Greg Merson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Merson"
    title: "Greg Merson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Merson"
    title: "Greg Merson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Merson"
    title: "Gregory Merson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B7%B8%EB%A0%88%EA%B7%B8_%EB%A8%B8%EC%8A%A8"
    title: "그레그 머슨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Merson"
    title: "Greg Merson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4806"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump