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For Richer, For Poorer: Confessions of a Player
For Richer, For Poorer: Confessions of a Player
For Richer, For Poorer: Confessions of a Player
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For Richer, For Poorer: Confessions of a Player

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The BBC host and professional poker player delivers “a terrific poker book and a terrific memoir…engaging, lucid, and full of verve” (The Guardian, UK).
 
Author, columnist, and BBC show host Victoria Coren Mitchell has won and lost at poker all over the world, from Liverpool to Las Vegas, and from the Isle of Man to Monte Carlo. She began playing as a teenager “to make friends and meet boys,” but by the age of thirty-three she had won the million-dollar European championship and forgotten to have kids. Something had either gone very right or very wrong.
 
This is a true story of happiness and heartbreak, smoke and mirrors, bright lights and shady characters. It is a touching and very funny memoir of friendship and belonging, love and loss. It might also teach you how to win a million.

“A book so rich in detail, so full of laughter, that you feel as if the coolest member of your family has just let you in on a secret so delicious you will savor it forever.”—The Times, UK

“Vivid … Unflinchingly honest … A compulsive read which may well leave you reaching for a pack of cards”—Elle
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Release dateSep 17, 2009
ISBN9781847677969
For Richer, For Poorer: Confessions of a Player

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    It really is pretty much about poker. If you were expecting a wider biography then you'd be disappointed, but even if you don't play, it's interesting to read about how you get better.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great book about the human side of poker. It also contains some good tips for beginners. Victoria's style of writing is absolutely charming. I highly recommend it.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great read, would recommend to any poker player or fan.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I didn't understand a lot of the poker sections but I did really enjoy the book and it kept me up late at night, desperate to read just one more chapter. I really liked the author's voice, and the sense of family she got from her motley crew of associated poker players. It also made me a bit curious about playing poker, which I've never really done before.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    I've liked Victoria Coren ever since she wrote a column in the Telegraph when she was a teenager (and so was I). All the same I wasn't really expecting to enjoy a book about poker as much as I did. But it's a very entertaining read.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I like Victoria Coren when I see her on the telly. I follow her on twitter because she's witty and clever but still seems down to earth. So, even though I know nothing about poker, I thought I'd give her poker autobiography a go. It's a mixture of "how I fell in love with poker and the things that were going on in my life" and "how I became the first woman to win the European Poker Tour", with the autobiographical stuff making up the bulk of each chapter and then an analysis of that tournament winning series of games at the end. I had to read a glossary of poker terms to have the vaguest clue about what was going on in the game. I think I got my head around it 3/4s of the way in! Coren writes well, of course. She is honest about poker, affectionate about the poker family she has made, and very entertaining with her turns of phrase. The only card games I've ever played are Whist, Rummy and Pontoon, so maybe I wasn't at quite the disadvantage I thought I was, but I know that I would be useless at poker. All that analysing other people, working out the odds and deciding how much money to risk would tire me out. But then, I am extremely risk averse. Still, I enjoyed the book, even if it didn't turn me into a gambler.

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