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I like Victoria Coren. I like her for the superficial reasons, the posh voice, the pretty face and the tits, but also for the deeper more profound reasons; the er.... no,... I've never met her so it's really just the looks and tits and voice.

I read her book yesterday though even though it has no pictures and as anecdotal poker books go it's an interesting enough read. It's not in the same class as Amarillo Slim's book and not as tragic as Stu Ungar's, but absorbing enough to be a better option than watching telly or playing with Lego.

It's essentially two books in one; an autobiography and a sort of abbreviated version of Gus Hansen's book: "Every hand revealed" - with each chapter interlaced with specific hands from her EPT London win in 2006.

She's a good writer and some of her stories are funny, but in essence it's a book anyone who has played poker for a while, read Alice in Wonderland, and is part of their own poker clique, could have written. Apart from the EPT part of course, which is I think, the point of the book.

Despite her relative fame and her now not insignificant bank-roll, her degree from Oxford and all those long words she uses, she's just a poker player - a sponsored poker player who gets to go to all the fancy schmansy locations - but a poker player nonetheless. An engaging, intelligent and funny young miss, as happy in the Tuesday 25p-25p game as the Grand Final of the EPT in Monte Carlo, immune to the chauvinism of a male dominated environment and still down to earth, which is very commendable and refreshing. I think it's still mostly her tits though that I like the most about her.