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Victoria Coren writes, on several levels, with wit, honesty, and perfect freshness. --Martin Amis
Shrewd and - for a poker player - astonishingly modest and frank. A class act. --Al Alvarez, author of THE BIGGEST GAME IN TOWN
It's faithful, epic, and true to every loveable miscreant she's faced across the green baize. --Jesse May
Honest, funny, highly personal and nostalgic memoir about friendship and belonging.
--Financial Times
Shrewd and - for a poker player - astonishingly modest and frank. A class act. --Al Alvarez, author of THE BIGGEST GAME IN TOWN
It's faithful, epic, and true to every loveable miscreant she's faced across the green baize. --Jesse May
Honest, funny, highly personal and nostalgic memoir about friendship and belonging.
--Financial Times
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Shrewd and - for a poker player - astonishingly modest and frank. A class act.
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111 of 124 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A lifetime ago I saw Vicky Coren in a pub in Oxford. Didnt know her from Adam Dalgliesh at the time - she stuck in my mind because although she looked like a right posh bird, she laughed like the lovechild of Sid James and Dot Cotton.
A few years later she turned out to be An Famous and more especially, An Famous who played cards on the telly. An Famous who played cards on the telly, who I'd seen in a pub. Brilliant. Pub Story Gold. According to the rules of popular culture she became an anecdotal fixture in my life whenever poker, laughing and/or posh birds came up in the conversation.
"That Vicky Coren, yeah she used to drink in my local, got the best laugh in the world that girl, and she plays cards on the telly. She's lovely she is."
All based on nothing of course but clearly repeated often enough to ensure that when Once More With Feeling hit the bookstores I got 7 copies as birthday presents. I had to return 6 of them and to this day I'm still known to the staff in my local bookshop as "the porn book guy".
So, skip some years and replay the scene. This year I only got 4 copies of For Richer, For Poorer - clearly I've lost some mates over the years - but still not a bad show. In the birthday gift Top 10 that got her third spot behind some rather nice malt whisky and a painting by Sadie Hennessy - a good result for a random, one anecdote, half serious, 14 year old, pretend celebrity crush.
And now she's gone and ruined it.
Not only has she written one of the most honest books about the poker lifestyle ever, but in a surprise move she's thrown the rules of conventional Celeb-Biography out of the window - she's only gone and been straight up about herself.
No more mysterious, half imagined, poker playing posh bird with a cockney sparrow laugh, no more saucy funny bird tucked up on Charlie "it's not a panel show" Brooker's silly chair. Oh sure, she's still An Famous but now she's gone and revealed herrself as an actual real life person. A real person who has the same thrills and spills as the rest of us. A real person who gets down about herself sometimes, who sometimes gets overdrawn at the bank, who muddles on just like we all do. How on earth am I supposed to have a pretend celebrity crush on her now? Play the game Coren!
I suppose we had a good run but it looks like I'll have to buff up the Tracey Emin anecdote now and god alone knows where that'll all end up.
Buy this book. It's a belter, and so by all accounts is she.
A few years later she turned out to be An Famous and more especially, An Famous who played cards on the telly. An Famous who played cards on the telly, who I'd seen in a pub. Brilliant. Pub Story Gold. According to the rules of popular culture she became an anecdotal fixture in my life whenever poker, laughing and/or posh birds came up in the conversation.
"That Vicky Coren, yeah she used to drink in my local, got the best laugh in the world that girl, and she plays cards on the telly. She's lovely she is."
All based on nothing of course but clearly repeated often enough to ensure that when Once More With Feeling hit the bookstores I got 7 copies as birthday presents. I had to return 6 of them and to this day I'm still known to the staff in my local bookshop as "the porn book guy".
So, skip some years and replay the scene. This year I only got 4 copies of For Richer, For Poorer - clearly I've lost some mates over the years - but still not a bad show. In the birthday gift Top 10 that got her third spot behind some rather nice malt whisky and a painting by Sadie Hennessy - a good result for a random, one anecdote, half serious, 14 year old, pretend celebrity crush.
And now she's gone and ruined it.
Not only has she written one of the most honest books about the poker lifestyle ever, but in a surprise move she's thrown the rules of conventional Celeb-Biography out of the window - she's only gone and been straight up about herself.
No more mysterious, half imagined, poker playing posh bird with a cockney sparrow laugh, no more saucy funny bird tucked up on Charlie "it's not a panel show" Brooker's silly chair. Oh sure, she's still An Famous but now she's gone and revealed herrself as an actual real life person. A real person who has the same thrills and spills as the rest of us. A real person who gets down about herself sometimes, who sometimes gets overdrawn at the bank, who muddles on just like we all do. How on earth am I supposed to have a pretend celebrity crush on her now? Play the game Coren!
I suppose we had a good run but it looks like I'll have to buff up the Tracey Emin anecdote now and god alone knows where that'll all end up.
Buy this book. It's a belter, and so by all accounts is she.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Of all the books I have read on poker in the last few months this is the only one that conveys any atmosphere, real feeling or depth. You can explain anything technically, but if someone described kissing the way most books talk about poker you'd never want to try it. This book conveys what it's like to give poker a passionate snog and feel your knees wobble. The prose is a joy to read.
By way of explanation - I'm learning about poker from a starting point of no knowledge whatsoever, hoping to make it into the gaming industry and a friend recommend I read up on Victoria Coren's articles on poker and her website. I was lucky - this book was due out the week after and I yummed it up, cover to cover. Poker aside, it's an honest and moving memoir, as well as being pant wettingly funny in places.
Oh and I start my new job in poker next week. I can say this book was instrumental in helping me understand so much more than the technical. I've snogged poker and I liked it...
By way of explanation - I'm learning about poker from a starting point of no knowledge whatsoever, hoping to make it into the gaming industry and a friend recommend I read up on Victoria Coren's articles on poker and her website. I was lucky - this book was due out the week after and I yummed it up, cover to cover. Poker aside, it's an honest and moving memoir, as well as being pant wettingly funny in places.
Oh and I start my new job in poker next week. I can say this book was instrumental in helping me understand so much more than the technical. I've snogged poker and I liked it...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I like Victoria Coren's sense of humour, but I confess I have no interest whatsoever in poker. Thankfully the book is more of an autobiography, amusingly told, but - and this probably deserves a "well obviously!" - there is a lot of content here about poker, strategies, and the outcomes of games. I admit I did skim some of these sections which by and large fall at the end of chapters where they describe the progress of a key game in Victoria's poker career. There is much talk of the "button", the "river", "flops" and so on, and these are explained in a brief appendix at the end of the book.
If you're a fan of poker and Victoria Coren you'll love it. If you're a fan of one but not the other you'll probably just like it more than anything.
If you're a fan of poker and Victoria Coren you'll love it. If you're a fan of one but not the other you'll probably just like it more than anything.
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Great book, want to know what happened next!
I loved this book!
Part of this is because I play a lot of (very small stakes) poker and have followed the poker world for several years so understood the game and knew... Read more
Part of this is because I play a lot of (very small stakes) poker and have followed the poker world for several years so understood the game and knew... Read more
Published 17 days ago by BBT...
Insightful and Eye Opening Read
Not knowing too much about poker I decided to give this a go as a friend very much into the game suggested it to help stoke my interest and I really liked it. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Lesley Tingle
Ok if you like poker
As a huge poker fan I enjoyed reading about the early days of poker before you could play online. Victoria Coren has interesting stories to tell about some of the well known poker... Read more
Published 4 months ago by pavman
6 star book
What a fabulous book! I bought this book in the Summer of 2011 and read it in two days. I had to resist the temptation to reread for six months, but then gave in. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Pokerface
Well written and addictive!
I quite like Victoria Coren from what I have seen on TV, and have a passing interest in poker.
After hearing comedian Richard Herring praise this book I thought I'd give it a... Read more
After hearing comedian Richard Herring praise this book I thought I'd give it a... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Studebaker Hawk
Not for me - poker's boring
Sorry, I like Victoria Coren's column in the Observer and I thought her dad was one of the funniest people in print and on radio (he appears quite a bit in her story), but the... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Broonbiker
Great book, totally confusing, though.
Victoria Coren is, no doubt, a wonderful author, journalist/columnist and poker player and is cryptically very funny. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mr. John G. Holton
You really don't need to know about poker
A lovely funny affectionate picture of an essentially nerdy world (it seems to me). I am allergic to gambling, and was surprised at how I was so won over to the people and the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by ebookwoman
One of my favourite books
It must be impossible to finish this book without falling hoplessly "in like" with Victoria Coren and feeling a big-brotherly protectiveness towards her. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Gordinflon
Nicely written
A compelling look at the world of poker, through the eyes of journalist and broadcaster Victoria Coren. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Phillip Calgary
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