She didn’t immediately jump into the biggest games in London as a young woman who just completed college, Victoria lacks the bankroll – and perhaps the knowledge – to bring herself to play the game she loves. I want to be there.”Ĭoren painstakingly details out how the game became a part of her life and, in a sort of symbiotic relationship, how her life became part of poker. “Clink-burble-clatter go the chips and the drinks in the other room.
“Don’t want to study Shakespeare,” Victoria frustratingly writes in the first chapter of the book. After being exposed to gambling (through blackjack) by her grandfather Sam, the teenage Victoria further succumbs to the siren’s wail of poker after overhearing the enjoyment her brother, Giles, and his friends are having with the game. Over the span of 339 pages, Coren details out what has become, for her, a life long relationship with not only the game itself but the people who populate it. It’s original subtitle, “A Love Affair With Poker,” is a much more apt description of what you will find between the covers. The new paperback version has been subtitled “Confessions Of A Player,” but that phrase does a disservice to the original tome. There are only so many times a player can read about how to play pocket Jacks or suited connectors, especially when the final analysis of many writing endeavors is that old poker axiom, “it depends.” A recent book that has been re-released in paperback not only rekindled my love of poker books, but also of the game itself.īritish poker player and writer Victoria Coren’s “For Richer, For Poorer” was originally released in 2009 and, in March, came out to bookstores and in paperback form. The recent spate of poker literature has not been particularly noteworthy, to be kind.
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