Women have to stick together these days, especially when they are taking part in a male dominated environment. There are still plenty of men that stick to an old school belief that women have no business playing poker in the major tournaments but thankfully these opinions are dying down. They are still around but the outspoken and outdated opinions are becoming quieter as the weeks, months and years pass. The only thing that a poker player should be judged on is their talent but that is not quite the world we live in!
Anyway, it is always good to see a new female face in amongst the traditional faces and the established female poker players who know what the industry is like can usually be relied upon to keep an eye out for the new poker players. In the case of Victoria Coren, this will come easy to her because she comes across as being an absolutely delightful woman. Sure she takes no prisoners at the poker table but in her many TV performances, she comes as charming, witty and very intelligent, which you wouldn’t think if half of her poker opponents were dumped on mainstream television.
Beaten by the poker flush
Unsurprisingly, Victoria Coren was front and centre in the PokerStars London event and this turned out to be a great blessing for Leo Margets, the Spanish poker star. Leo is the newest recruit to the PokerStars team and she has found herself in front of the watching media and banks of TV cameras a lot in the past few days. She has handled all of this tremendously well but it seems as though she didn’t manage to handle the toilets in the Vic so well. Leo managed to get herself stuck in one of the toilets but thankfully Victoria Coren was able to come to her rescue and set her free.
It was good that Victoria was able to lend a poker hand to her team-mate and it may have been one of the most uncomfortable times that Leo has had a problem with a flush at a poker event! It just goes to show that even the brightest stars can have the most mundane problems at times but Leo managed to bounce back well and didn’t let the embarrassment affect her performance or impact at the poker table. The Main Event at the EPT London event is still on-going and the players are still taking part at their own convenience!