People visit these shelves for a number of different reasons, and in a lot of instances, books are prejudged by the (potential) reader’s idea or opinion of the poker-playing ability of the author.
Go to Borders or Barnes and Noble and on the “poker” shelves you’ll find jammed together strategy texts (covering a wide variety of games, both cash and tourney), simple “how-to” primers, rulebooks, biographies, autobiographies, histories, and more. The category of “poker books,” despite being a teeny, tiny niche (really), includes a wide variety of styles and subjects. The book primarily functions as a “poker memoir” chronicling Coren’s poker career - from her first learning the game as a teenager from her older brother in the late 1980s to her becoming a European Poker Tour champ and a PokerStars team pro.
I recently had the chance to read and review it, and wanted to share a few comments here about the book as well. The book, titled For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker, arrived this fall. In that interview with Wise (from January 2009), Coren mentioned that she was at work on her own poker narrative. In one post, “ Victoria’s Secrets,” I wrote about her very interesting interview with Gary Wise in which she offered some insights about the whole men-vs.-women-in-poker thing, as well as discussed writing and poker and the great poker narratives such as The Biggest Game in Town (1983) by Al Alvarez and Anthony Holden’s Big Deal (1990). I have written about Victoria Coren here before on a couple of occasions, having heard her on podcasts, occasionally read her poker-related columns in The Guardian, and covered her in a few tournaments, both live and online.
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