Victoria Coren's long awaited memoir is an intensely honest story of 20 years of obsession, of highs and lows, wins and losses, friendships, power plays, loneliness and adiction.

It is a book that takes us from the grimy world underworld of illegal cash games to the high glamour of Monte Carlo and Las Vegas, and gets to the heat of why poker has become the world's most popular card game.

Vicky Coren is Britain's most successful woman poker player and her story, unlike most poker stories, has a happy ending. It is also funny, shrewd and - for a poker player - astonishingly modest and frank. A class act.' - Al Alvarez, author of THE BIGGEST GAME IN TOWN