For a while, Victoria Coren Mitchell says she was "the respectable face of poker."
"Although now you might just as well say I'm the degenerate face of quizzing," she told PokerNews.
The writer turned poker player is best known in the poker world for being the first player to win two European Poker Tour titles.
Now, eight years later and 40 kilometres down the coast from where she secured that historic title, she spoke with PokerNews about returning to the tour.