Victoria Coren Mitchell's Top Book Recommendations

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Hold'Em Poker for Advanced Players

Recommended by Victoria Coren Mitchell, and 1 others.

Victoria Coren MitchellThis is a technical strategy book from a while ago. Now there are millions of these but most of them are boring and just have sexy new terms for things poker players have been doing for 200 years. (Source)

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The story of a year spent by biographer Anthony Holden in the tough world of the professional poker player. He spent days and nights in the poker paradise of Las Vegas, in Malta and Morocco, even shipboard, mingling with the legendary greats, sharpening his game, perfecting his repartee, and learning a great deal about himself in the process. Poker, Holden would insist, is not gambling. Like chess it is a paradigm of life at its most intense, a gladiatorial contest that brings out the best as well as the worst in people. Its heroes, its eccentrics and is comedians stalk the pages of this... more
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Victoria Coren MitchellTony’s book is an experiment. He goes out to try to spend a year as a professional poker player. (Source)

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3

The Biggest Game In Town

Takes us inside the World Poker Tour and captures the skewed psyches and peculiar rites of professional poker players who descend every year for the World Series of Poker. less
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Victoria Coren MitchellI say to the younger generation that you should go out and see the world, seduce beautiful women, read books, have a job and play poker as well. (Source)

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Cincinnati Kid

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Victoria Coren MitchellMost people know The Cincinnati Kid from the film but it was an original novel. It has a mistake in it. By which I mean it has this preposterous poker hand. (Source)

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5

Shut Up And Deal

An exploration of the booming casino industry in the 1990s, as narrated by an obsessed, young poker professional called Mickey. less
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Victoria Coren MitchellIt really brings alive that last phase in poker before the internet came along and caused a revolution. (Source)

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