Jane Hitchcock (born November 24, 1946), an achieved New York Instances-bestselling thriller novelist and avid poker participant, has handed away on the age of 78. The reason for dying is at present unknown.
A widely known participant at East Coast stops similar to Maryland Dwell! and MGM Nationwide Harbor, Hitchcock had $289,471 in lifetime match earnings courting again to 2013, in response to the Hendon Mob. That included a career-high $57,645 for ending second within the 2022 Venetian DeepStack Championship Sequence Occasion #103: $800 NLH Monster Stack.
The information was shared with the poker world through a social media put up from 2021 WSOP Girls Occasion champion Lara Eisenberg:
In 2017, The Washington Publish wrote a function article on Hitchcock profiling the “socialite’s unlikely journey from Park Avenue to the poker desk.” In it, writer Roxanne Roberts defined that Hitchcock took poker severely simply eight years prior, after her grandmother handed away,y and she or he discovered PokerStars.
“My grandmother mentioned, ‘Love the playing cards and the playing cards will love you.’ I do know what she meant,” she remembers. “The playing cards cherished me after I wanted to seek out an escape,” Hitchcock defined.
“The sport rapidly grew to become an obsession, a balm, an entry into a brand new and interesting world,” The Washington Publish story learn. “She’s nonetheless not an awesome participant, she admits, however she’s aggressive and wily and has received virtually $40,000 over the previous 4 years.”
The article, which additionally defined how Hitchcock helped put Ken Starr in jail, continued:
“Few of her opponents ever know that she was as soon as a Park Avenue debutante, an in depth buddy of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. They in all probability do not care about her best-selling homicide mysteries or a lifetime of jet-setting with the wealthy and well-known … ‘Poker is like life,’ she says. ‘On the poker desk, everybody makes errors, all people performs palms fallacious. It’s a recreation that teaches you about not dwelling on the previous, but in addition studying out of your errors. You play the following hand because it comes.’”
Hitchcock, an achieved playwright and screenwriter, was the writer of a number of thriller novels, together with Bluff, which drew upon her love of poker. In an interview with Felony Ingredient concerning the e-book, Hitchcock made a poignant level about poker.
“To start with, I’d by no means say I had ‘mastered’ poker. If something, the sport is my grasp. It’s taught me quite a bit about life and easy methods to cope with adversity—particularly, there’s no level in dwelling on unhealthy luck or one’s errors. Exhausting as it’s, you generally must say, ‘Subsequent Hand,’ and get on with it.”
PokerNews affords its condolences to the chums and households of Jane Hitchcock, who will probably be sorely missed by the poker neighborhood.
Chad Holloway
PR & Media Supervisor
