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Poker win for Canongate

30.11.07 John Ryan

Canongate has emerged victorious in a fierce bidding war with Viking over For Richer for Poorer, a memoir about playing poker by writer and card sharp Victoria Coren.

Canongate's Nick Davies paid a "low six-figure sum" for world rights via Jonny Geller at Curtis Brown, who described the book as "funny, moving [and] honest". Canongate will publish in spring 2009.

Coren is the daughter of the late humorist Alan Coren and sister of journalist Giles Coren. A poker expert, she has become the voice of the game through her television appearances on Sky Sports' "William Hill Poker Grand Prix II". She is also a keen practitioner, earning more than $1,000,000 (£484,000) last year through poker games after her victory in the main event of the European Poker Tour. She specialises in "Texas Holdem", a variant of the game, and is a regular at the Victoria Casino on London's Edgware Road.

Coren is a weekly columnist for the Observer and the Guardian.

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