Poker Stars Adds a Woman to Team

PokerStars has added yet another amazing professional poker player to its ranks this week. The latest member of Team PokerStars is the lovely Victoria Coren. Victoria will be traveling the world, alongside the rest of the team, representing PokerStars at major tournaments. Her name on the site is “Vicky Coren”, should you get the chance to take a seat at a table with her.

Victoria was given the European Poker Awards Most Outstanding Tournament Performance of the Year honor in 2006, after winning the European Poker Tour’s main event. She is the first woman to ever have won this event. Other noteworthy wins in her career include a win at the 2004 Celebrity Poker Club Series. She is reported to have cashed over $1 million in chips to this point in her career.

Poker is not the only talent of this Oxford graduate; Victoria has been a published journalist since the age of 13, writing for various London publications, such as the Guardian and the Observer. She also has a authored and co-authored a few books, some of them quite controversial. Her choice of career is just an instance of her following in the footsteps if her late father, the humorist and writer Alan Coren.

By joining with Team PokerStars, Coren joins the ranks of some of the best known players on today’s poker scene. Her teammates include names like Chris Moneymaker, Tom McEvoy, Greg Rainer, and another new team addition, Gavin Griffin