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09:4425 Jan
There’s a fair chance that the millions of TV viewers who watched Victoria Coren Mitchell’s Only Connect quiz show had little or no idea that she’d just been joined in one of the most impressive poker doubles…
The 47-year old Londoner became the first player in history to lift two EPT Main Event titles, her 2014 win in San Remo adding to her 2006 victory in her home city.
That double was worth a combined £976,000, her career earnings still good enough for 45th place in the all-time England rankings, ahead of Luke Schwartz and just two spots behind Patrick Leonard.
Recently, Belarus pro Mikalai Pobal scooped the Prague Main Event to join Coren Mitchell as an EPT double-dipper, having won in Barcelona in 2012, but the London woman’s other achievements in life are unlikely to be repeated by a poker player.
The author of several books, including one on poker - For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker – Coren Mitchell has also presented numerous documentaries, writes columns for various newspapers and has been a guest on most of the well-known panel shows on UK television, including the political Question Time.
It was her journalism that helped to spark the Hendon Mob crew’s fame and fortune, an excellent interview with the London cardsharks on PokerNews last year revealing:
“None of it might have happened if it hadn’t been for Victoria Coren as she was then or Victoria Coren-Mitchell as she is now. She was very media-savvy and a good writer. And she was a good friend. She had an idea for a feature about us in the Evening Standard.”
With her second EPT victory in 2014, Coren Mitchell had the poker world at her feet in many ways, but it was the same year she parted ways with PokerStars following their decision to introduce online casino games.
“I can’t hang around, sleep on it, have meetings and talk myself into staying, when my gut tells me that the right thing is to walk away,” Coren-Mitchell wrote at the time.
She added that it wasn’t a criticism of PokerStars itself, but stated:
“I cannot professionally and publicly endorse it, even passively by silence with my name still over the shop. Poker is the game I love, poker is what I signed up to promote.”
That decision saw Coren-Mitchell disappear from the tournament poker scene almost completely, although she continued to play at her beloved Vic, the Victoria Casino on London’s Edgeware Road.
Inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame in 2016, Victoria Coren-Mitchell is that rare breed of person who has succeeded in multiple walks of life, and would be the perfect answer for a question on her own unfathomably difficult Only Connect show!
08:1307 May
Missing in action from the live poker tournament scene for almost a year, Victoria Coren-Mitchell made a triumphant return to the tables recently and had some adjustments to make after being away from the game for so long.
Her first re-introduction to live tournament poker was apparently confounded by a pocket pair of questionable strength. A slippery slope those pocket jacks!
The following day of action found Victoria looking at some better starting hands than those dreaded jacks. Unfortunately, there are no guarantees of scooping pots when dealt big pocket pairs.
Things started looking up for the quiz show host and two-time EPT winner near the end of Day 1 action. An appointment with Day 2 was on the horizon.
Day 2 rules were a bit different than Day 1. Patience may be a virtue, but it isn't when forced to play under a shot clock. Which proverb trumps the other: 'Haste makes waste' or 'He who hesitates is lost.'
Victoria had some strong opinions regarding shot clock poker and dutifully expressed them via social media:
Uh oh. Those bloody pocket jacks made a return to Coren-Mitchell's hole cards. Seems the outcome wasn't any better than two days prior.
Staring at pocket bullets, Victoria got it in good and was a huge favorite. But the end result likely had her longing for the safety of the set of 'Only Connect.'
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Buying in to another event, it seems that Victoria had a change of heart with regard to shot clock poker.