For Richer, for Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker [Hardcover]

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.

A touching, personal memoir and a glimpse into the fascinating, colourful, deeply flawed world she loves so much.

It's faithful, epic, and true to every loveable miscreant she's faced across the green baize.

Terrifically funny and terribly moving. Victoria Coren plays cards like a demon and writes like an angel.

In September 2006, Victoria Coren won a million dollars on the European Poker Tour. In this, her long-awaited memoir, Coren tells the story of that victory, but also of a twenty-year obsession with the game. It is a journey which has taken Coren from a secret culture of illegal cash games to the high-stakes glamour of Las Vegas and Monte Carlo, and brought with it friendship, laughter and money, but also loneliness, heart-break and defeat. With disarming honesty, Victoria Coren lays all of this bare. For Richer, For Poorer also tells the story of the poker revolution. How did this cult card game, populated by a small community of colourful and eccentric players, move from the back streets to the mainstream in a few short years? It is a fascinating story from a trusted insider.

Victoria Coren is a writer, broadcaster and poker player from London. She currently writes a poker column in The Guardian, a weekly topical column in The Observer and this is her third book. She has presented Late Night Poker and The Poker Nations Cup on Channel 4 and series of general interest on BBC2, BBC Four and BBC Radio 4. Coren is a member of Team PokerStars Pro, with lifetime winnings of $1.5 million