Victoria Coren Mitchell Poker
- Biography
He is the husband of presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell, 48. In 2006, the TV quiz show host and journalist Victoria Coren played her way into the history books when she became the first woman to win the European Poker Tour, and a prize of £500,000. Victoria is also a professional poker player, 2006 winner of the London EPT and 2014 winner of the San Remo EPT. More details and tournament results on the ‘poker’ page. Victoria Coren Mitchell is a writer, broadcaster, presenter of Only Connect on BBC Two and a competitive international poker player. Still not sure whose website you’ve stumbled onto.
Victoria Coren Mitchell writes a weekly column for The Observer, a monthly column for Elle and is the resident agony aunt for GQ. She presents the BBC Four (now BBC Two) quiz show Only Connect, presents and produces the Radio 4 comedy series Heresy, and is a competitive international poker player, to date the only person to have won two titles on the European Poker Tour.
Aged 14, inspired by lonely Jo March from Little Women, Victoria submitted a short story to Just Seventeen magazine under an assumed name. The story was accepted and published, earning her the princely sum of £90. Hooked on trade immediately, Victoria answered a nationwide appeal from the Daily Telegraph for a teenage columnist (her ‘audition column’ was about the terrors of the countryside for an urban child), got the job and wrote for them weekly for four years.
A collection of Victoria’s teenage newspaper articles was published in 1990. After university, she became a freelance journalist and broadcaster. In 1999, Victoria adapted the newspaper columns of John Diamond into a play A Lump In My Throat, which was performed at The Grace Theatre and The New End Theatre in London and The Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, before Victoria re-adapted it into a TV play for BBC2 starring Neil Pearson.
Victoria is also a professional poker player, 2006 winner of the London EPT and 2014 winner of the San Remo EPT. More details and tournament results on the ‘poker’ page.
As a broadcaster, she has presented Fourth Column and Off The Page for Radio 4 and two series of Balderdash And Piffle (about the Oxford dictionary and the history of words) for BBC2, as well as other BBC documentaries on language, surrealist art and Mary Poppins. As a poker and gambling specialist, she has presented Late Night Poker and The Poker Nations Cup for Channel 4, a series of World Poker Tour for ITV2 and the chat show Bar Beat for the Poker Channel, as well as providing commentary for The European Poker Tour and The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (Channel 4), Ultimate Poker Challenge (Channel 5), Celebrity Poker Challenge (ITV1), The William Hill Grand Prix (Sky Sports), Celebrity Poker Club and Casino Casino (Challenge TV).
She has also appeared as a guest on Question Time, Have I Got News For You, QI, Eight Out Of Ten Cats, Opinionated, You Have Been Watching, Loose Ends, Midweek, Woman’s Hour and various other short-term experiments; that kind of thing comes up on the ‘news’ page of this site unless there is a good reason to hide it.
In 2002, Victoria disappeared into the X-rated film industry with her best friend Charlie Skelton and they wrote a book about it, Once More With Feeling.
In 2008, with her brother Giles, she co-edited an anthology of their father’s writing, Chocolate And Cuckoo Clocks.
In 2009, Victoria’s memoir of a life playing cards, For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair With Poker, was published by Canongate, then re-published in paperback in 2011 as For Richer, For Poorer: Confessions Of A Player.
Details of these books, and reviews, can be found on the ‘books’ page.
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Let’s make no bones about it, there’s a lot of money in professional poker tournaments. Players can regularly win thousands, if not hundred of thousands at any given game if they’re good enough. In some cases, there’s been an interesting crossover with celebrities engaging as professional poker players – one such example is columnist and presenter Victoria Coren-Mitchell, perhaps one of the most famous – how much has she won so far?
Victoria Coren Mitchell Poker Tournament
She first got into the game of poker when she joined a friend’s game and used her money as a stake in an attempt to fit in with her brother’s friends. It’s certainly fair to say that she’s moved on a lot since then. Nowadays, however, it’s a lot easier to get into games such as poker with the rise of online casinos. The advent of the internet has brought with an unparalleled element of convenience when it comes to playing casino games and with the subsequent inclusion of elements, such as live dealers, it aids in bringing the experience to any potential players, making it an awful lot easier.
She shot to fame thanks to being the first-ever female winner of an event on the European Poker Tour and also the first player to win both a televised professional tournament and televised celebrity tournament. Coren-Mitchell made yet more history when she became a two-time winner of the EPT back in 2014, taking home nearly £400,000 in cash and a watch worth over £4000. Combine that with the original EPT win back in 2006 and she’s won nearly £1 million from just 2 tournaments. In addition, over the years, she’s picked up several winnings worth more than £20,000 and countless others in the lower thousands, making for a total prize pool of nearly £1.9 million or $2.5 million.
Outside of poker, she’s most famously the presenter of lateral-thinking quiz show Only Connect and has been in that role since 2008. It’s certainly one of television’s more thought-provoking game shows as it requires a lot of mental strength to even get close to any potential answers. Before this, however, Coren-Mitchell was most notably a columnist for the Daily Telegraph, having written a regular feature for their ‘Weekend’ section. She’s also found fame as the host of Radio 4 panel show Heresy, as well as having a lot of other roles as a guest or guest host on other comedy shows such as Have I Got News For You, QI and Would I Lie To You?. Outside of the comedy spheres, she’s also been a guest on political discussion show Question Time, as well as having other radio spots on Radio 4. It’s abundantly clear that, even without the professional poker on her side, Coren-Mitchell is a much-celebrated public figure.
Victoria Coren Mitchell Poker Winnings
Victoria Coren-Mitchell is certainly one of the media’s most versatile figures. From earning millions at poker tournaments to presenting trivia-based quiz shows, her vast array of work demonstrates an awful lot of talent. What’s more, the wide range of tournament wins over the years also shows that she’s not someone to be messed with at the poker table.