Victoria Coren

Victoria Coren

Infobox poker player


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lastname= Coren
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website = http://www.victoriacoren.com

Victoria "Vicky" Coren (born 1973) is a British writer, presenter and poker player. Coren writes weekly columns for "The Observer" and "The Guardian" newspapers and regular articles for other publications.

Biography

The daughter of the late humourist and journalist Alan Coren and sister of journalist Giles Coren, she is a graduate of St John's College, Oxford.

Writing

Aged 14, she won a competition in the "Daily Telegraph" to write a column about teenage life for their "Weekend" section, which she continued writing for several years. Her books include "Love 16", "King Lear: Fathers and Daughters" and "Once More, with Feeling", about her attempt (with co-author Charlie Skelton) to make the best hard-core porn movie ever. This came off the back of their jobs reviewing porn films for the Erotic Review - a job which led them to believe that most of what they were watching was terrible and that they could make better films themselves.

Coren adapted "C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too..." by her friend John Diamond into a play called "A Lump In My Throat".

Presenting

Radio

On BBC Radio 4, she has presented the "Off The Page" programme and Fourth Column, and in May 2008 took over from David Baddiel as the chair of the BBC Radio 4 show "Heresy".

Television

Coren has presented two series of the BBC TV programme "Balderdash and Piffle". In September 2008, she became the host of "Only Connect", a new quiz programme on BBC4. She has also acted as presenter or commentator for programmes on poker on several commercial channels and appeared with Charlie Skelton as judges on the final episode of the reality TV show "Double Entry".

Poker

She frequents the Victoria Casino in London's Edgware Road, where she plays Texas hold 'em. Coren also commentates on the Sky Sports poker programme "William Hill Poker Grand Prix 2".

During her poker career, she has become a close friend of The Hendon Mob, and mixes weekly home games with frequent visits to two regular casinos.

Coren appeared in five episodes of "Late Night Poker", although she never made it to a series grand final. However in "Late Night Poker"'s spin-off "Celebrity Poker Club", she defeated Willie Thorne to win the series two grand final before joining Jesse May as the commentator in series three.

In the 2003 Hold-Em 100 tournament in London she was a guest dealer for the final table.

On Sunday 24 September 2006 Coren won the main event of the European Poker Tour (EPT) London earning a prize of £500,000. After a gruelling four-day event she found herself heads up with Australian professional Emad Tahtouh. [ cite web|url=http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=24051 |title=£ 3,500 Main Event - No Limit Hold'em |accessdate=2008-07-20 |publisher=TheHendonMob.com ] After only two hands of heads-up play the table saw a flop of 5-3-4. Emad moved all-in and Coren called instantly. Emad showed 8-6, and Coren had 6-7. Having flopped the straight and avoiding a seven on the turn and river to give Emad a higher straight, she defeated her opponent.

As of 2008, her total live tournament winnings exceeded $1,100,000.

Coren is a member of Team PokerStars. [ cite web|url=http://www.pokerstars.com/team-pokerstars/victoria-coren/ |title=Team PokerStars Pro - Victoria Coren |accessdate=2008-04-25 |work=pokerstars.com ]

Notes

External links


* [http://www.victoriacoren.com/ Official Victoria Coren Site - www.victoriacoren.com]
* [http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=403 Hendon Mob tournament results]
* [http://poker.sportinglife.com/News/story_71585.shtml Interview with sportinglife.com]
* [http://www.chicksnchips.com/Victoria-Coren.php Profile of Victoria Coren on Chicksnchips.com]
* [http://www.guidetopoker.com/Victoria-Cohen-Profile.php Profile]
*imdb|name=Victoria Coren|id=1296679


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