He is always either starving or feeling sick because he ate too much. He likes a platter of beef, nothing on the side. One time, I was so irritated that I scraped all their dinners into the bin and they had to order a pizza. I make dinner, but they can be a tough crowd. They come every week, same faces, same games, same money. Every day this week we have a caption competition where you can win a signed and personally dedicated copy of Vicky’s book. It’s always good to support your local bookshop if you can, but it can also be bought on Amazon. Victoria Coren plays cards like a demon and writes like an angel." – Patrick Marber "This miseducation of a poker player is terrifically funny and terribly moving. Victoria Coren writes, on several levels, with wit, honesty, and perfect freshness." – Martin Amis "For Richer, For Poorer seizes the reader with its first sentence and never lets go. Vicky also goes through her final table at the 2006 London EPT, hand by hand, explaining her thought processes on route to victory. It’s a life story of twenty years playing poker, from childhood to 2009 Team PokerStars Pro, full of colourful stories from the game and all the characters from the poker scene. Victoria Coren’s long-awaited poker memoir, For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair With Poker is published on September 17th 2009.
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