Joan Rivers to Doyle Brunson: “Die Under a Deck of Cards”

For anyone who was following Gambling911.com last spring you will recall the nasty feud between comedian Joan Rivers and poker pro Annie Duke.  Both women were finalists on this past season's Celebrity Apprentice and both women absolutely despised one another.  Joan Rivers compared Duke to Hitler while Joan's daughter Melissa, who also appeared on the show with Mom, blasted Duke and her cohort Brande Roderick as "Whore Pit Vipers".  Rivers was selected Donald Trump's apprentice and Duke's posse reportedly gave the comedian the middle finger while exiting. 

Rivers also launched into a tirade about poker players, suggesting they were all dirty.

Poker legend Doyle Brunson came to the poker world (and Annie's) defense.  He would routinely bash Rivers on his popular Twitter page.

On Wednesday, both Rivers and Brunson were scheduled to appear on a Miami sports radio show (separately of course) - 790 AM The Ticket.

Rivers, when asked about Brunson, claimed she didn't know who Texas Dolly is and said he has no ground to criticize him until "he's 76 years old and had a career like I've had".  Brunson happens to be the same age as Rivers, and certainly has had a brilliant career playing poker.  He just wrote a book now available on the DoylesRoom.com website called "The Godfather of Poker".

The radio show hosts claim they had no idea the two guests despised each other. 

"Who is he?" Rivers asks.  "Who the hell is he?  Who gives a damn?  Die under a deck of cards!"

"That would be a good place to go," Brunson later said on the show after hearing Rivers remarks. "It would be better than what she is going to die under....a pile of manure."

Brunson claimed that Rivers had agreed to come to Las Vegas and apologize to the poker community with him acting as a mediator but that she never showed.

"She had no call to berate the poker community the way she did.  It showed she had no class.  Joan Rivers don't need us and we don't need her."

You can listen to both radio shows at Pokerati.com. (scroll down a bit once you get to Pokerati)

 

Christopher Costigan, Gambling911.com Publisher 

Submitted by C Costigan on Wed, 11/11/2009 - 21:28
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Go Joan!

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 08:20 — shle896
I watched Celebrity Apprentice ready to hate Joan Rivers and I really wanted Annie Duke to win, but it was very clear two or three episodes in that Annie Duke has no ethics. She was a true snake in the grass who played everybody off of one another and then proceeded to stab them in the back when it best suited her. But what really disgusted me most about her was how full of herself she was. She felt entitled and was so sure of herself, which is where she made her fatal error. She so easily dismissed other people's talents and experiences, and frankly, Joan Rivers' 76 years and her brilliant very diverse career "trumped" Annie's blind ambition. It was a real eye opener and I was very surprised at what I saw. I have a newfound respect for Joan Rivers who won fair and square and played with dignity and grace. Annie was so full of hubris, she even thought she was going to win a "war of words" with Joan Rivers! Are you kidding me? Nobody is as quick-witted and sharp as Joan and it was a pleasure to watch her annihilate Annie who always thought she was one step ahead, smarter, more clever than everybody else. Ha! She wasn't! And as for Brunson. Joan is right. Outside of we poker fanatics, who the hell is he? She's a comedy legend and show business icon who's made more money than most every big poker player COMBINED and the minute Annie started treating her with such disrespect (and everybody else, too), Joan showed her who is boss. If the roles would have been reversed and Joan underestimated Annie and treated her like a pawn in a chess game, I'd be rooting for Annie to bring Joan down. But that's not what happened. Joan was right and Annie was wrong. Regardless, it was AWESOME tv!!

lol

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 00:36 — Guest
Both Rivers and Duke are complete idiots so we shouldn't even care. Brunson has my respect but that's it.