In September 2006, Victoria Coren won the European Poker Championship, and with it a cool one million dollars. Overnight, she became one of the world's most famous players. But how did she do it?
In For Richer, For Poorer, Victoria Coren's long-awaited poker memoir, she answers this question. It is an intensely honest story of twenty years of obsession, of highs and lows, wins and losses, friendships, power plays, loneliness and addiction. Coren takes us from the grimy underworld of illegal cash games to the high glamour of Monte Carlo and Las Vegas, vividly capturing the incredible excitement of a poker match and getting to the heart of why poker has become the world's most popular card game. It is a razor-sharp, accessible, entertaining, and intensely gripping story.

I'm not one for memoirs or biographies... or even poker for that matter!..but I do like Victoria Coren so I thought I'd give this a go.

It's a funny & personal memoir about friendship & the desire to belong. While it's packed with amusing anecdotes & colourful eccentrics, Coren doesn't shy away from talking about the darker, seedier side of gambling.

Despite having a handy brief glossary at the back of the book, I didn't follow a word of the poker hands described at the end of each chapter. Nevertheless Coren's easy, witty writing style made for enjoyable reading.

This book does focus only on Coren's love affair with poker. While there's a tantalising glimpse at a doomed love affair which resulted in depression, her personal life is kept private & glossed over.

An entertaining read for anyone, poker lover or not :o)

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