Victoria "Vicky" Coren (born 1972) is a British writer, presenter and poker player. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (479x939, 67 KB)Picture of Victoria Coren. ... The Victor Chandler Poker Cup (often abbreviated to The Victor Poker Cup or The VC Poker Cup} is an annual poker tournament held in England for broadcast on Sky Sports. ... London — containing the City of London — is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England and a major world city. With over seven million inhabitants (Londoners) in Greater London area, it is amongst the most densely populated areas in Western Europe. ... The WSOP logo The World Series of Poker is the most prestigious set of poker tournaments in the world. ... Non-Main Event gold bracelets given to the event winners during the 2005 WSOP The World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet is the biggest non-monetary prize a poker player can win. ... The following is a glossary of poker terms used in Wikipedia poker articles. ... The European Poker Tour (EPT) began in 2004 as part of the worldwide explosion in Texas Hold em popularity. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... A television presenter is a British term for a person who is known for introducing or hosting television programmes. ... A game of Texas holdem, currently the most popular form of poker, in progress. ...

Coren writes weekly columns for The Observer and The Guardian newspapers and regular articles for other publications. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ...

Her books include:

• Love 16
• King Lear: Fathers and Daughters
• Once More, with Feeling (about her attempt, with co-author Charlie Skelton, to make the best hard-core porn movie ever).

Coren adapted C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too... by her friend John Diamond into a play called A Lump In My Throat. Once More, with Feeling: How We Tried to Make the Greatest Porn Film Ever is a book by Victoria Coren and Charlie Skelton published in 2003. ... Charlie Skelton is a British comedy writer and actor. ... John Diamond (10 May 1953 - 2 March 2001) was a British Jewish broadcaster and journalist. ...

She is the presenter of the BBC TV programme Balderdash and Piffle, as well as BBC Radio 4’s Off the Page programme. There are now two Balderdash and Piffle books accompanying her series, which are full of similar bits of trivia and etymology. The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... Balderdash and Piffle is a British television programme made by Takeaway Media for the BBC. Presented by Victoria Coren, it is a companion to the Oxford English Dictionarys Wordhunt, in which the writers of the dictionary asked the public for help in finding the origins and first known citations... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Look up Trivia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Not to be confused with Entomology, the study of insects. ...

Poker

She frequents the Victoria Casino in London's Edgware Road, where she plays Texas hold 'em. In 2006, her total live tournament winnings exceeded $1,000,000. Coren also commentates on the Sky Sports poker programmeWilliam Hill Poker Grand Prix 2. Edgware Road is a road in London. ... Texas hold em involves community cards available to all players (pictured here on the left). ...

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. The Hendon Mob are a group of four professional poker players from London, England. ...

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. Late Night Poker is a British television show in which Poker players, mostly professionals or strong amateurs, compete in a short series of No-Limit Texas hold em tournament games for a prize of approximately £50,000. ... Celebrity Poker Club is a British television show featuring celebrities playing poker. ... William Joseph Willie Thorne (born 4 March 1954 in Leicester) is a former English professional snooker player and now a commentator. ... Jesse May (born July 28th 1980) is a poker commentator. ...

In the 2003 Hold-Em 100 tournament in London she was a guest dealer for the final table. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

On Sunday 24 September 2006 Coren won the main event of the European Poker Tour (EPT) London. After a gruelling four-day event she found herself heads up with Australian professional Emad Tahtou. 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 Vicky had 6-7. Having flopped the straight she defeated her opponent. September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... The European Poker Tour (EPT) began in 2004 as part of the worldwide explosion in Texas Hold em popularity. ... The large and growing jargon of poker includes many terms. ... The flop in poker refers to the dealing of the first three face-up cards to the board, or to those three cards themselves. ... All In was a Korean drama series broadcast by SBS in 2003. ... // Wikibooks Poker has more about this subject: Betting This article describes the common terms, rules, and procedures in the game, but does not cover the strategic impact of betting. ... // This article refers to standard poker hands only, otherwise refer to non-standard poker hand In poker, certain combinations of cards, or hands, outrank other hands, based on the frequency with which these combinations appear. ...

Background

Coren is the daughter of humourist and journalist Alan Coren and sister of journalist Giles Coren. Look up humorist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Alan Coren (born 27 June 1938, London) is a British writer and satirist. ... Giles Coren (born 1969 in Paddington, London) is a British journalist and broadcaster. ...

She is a graduate of the University of Oxford. Coren claims her favourite movie is The Graduate as it makes her nostalgic for an era before her birth. She cites the Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott as an inspiration. The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as... For the American rock band, see The Graduate (band). ... Greek ἀνταρκτικός, opposite the arctic) is a continent surrounding the Earths South Pole. ... See also explorations, sea explorers, astronaut, conquistador, travelogue, the History of Science and Technology and Biography. ... For other persons named Robert Scott, see Robert Scott (disambiguation). ...

External links

• Hendon Mob tournament results
• Interview with sportinglife.com
• Profile of Victoria Coren on Chicksnchips.com
• Profile
• Victoria Coren at the Internet Movie Database