Vicky Coren joins Team Pokerstars

Pokerstars have once again added to their impressive roster of sponsored professionals, with the news today that Vicky Coren is the latest addition to Team Pokerstars. Coren will be a regular on the European Poker Tour with fellow teammates Daniel Negreanu, Joe Hachem and more.

Coren is the 2nd highest earning female player in the UK and has the prestigious honor of winning the EPT London leg at the Victoria casino in 2006. The Vic is her regular cash game haunt and the $500,000 first prize cemented her reputation as one of the top players in the UK.

Vicky is also equally recognized for her journalistic skills as a writer and broadcaster. She writes weekly columns for The Observer and Guardian newspapers and has presented the BBC TV programme Balderdash and Piffle as well as BBC Radio 4's Off the Page show. She also regularly appears as a guest on other radio comedy and discussion shows and has provided commentary for several televised poker tournaments

Thomas Wyse, PokerStars.com UK Marketing Manager said: "Vicky is probably the most popular female poker player in the UK and certainly one of the most successful. Not only is she the first and only woman to win an EPT, but she has proved to be an enthusiastic and eloquent ambassador for poker in general."

"I'm genuinely proud and happy to be an ambassador for Pokerstars, I have played on the site for years," said Coren. "And I'm especially delighted to help promote the EPT, which was already my favourite tournament series even before I won in London. The only difference is that I used to play it in cheaper shoes. Team PokerStars Pro, is a line up of some of the most exciting and memorable characters in modern poker, I'm really chuffed to be joining them."

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