Poker player Annie Duke said she can accept Donald Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice” choice, but she’s remains outraged by Joan Rivers’ personal attack against poker
players. “I don’t feel like I was robbed,” said Duke, during an interview with a Las Vegas radio station Wednesday, three days after the “Apprentice” finale on NBC. “The thing I’m most upset about and I really feel bad about,” she said, is having Rivers label 70 million poker players as “mafia.” “I don’t feel I did anything to incur that wrath,” she told deejays Dave Farra and Jason Mahoney on KXTE-FM 107.5 (Xtreme). “I didn’t get pissed when she called all poker players white trash, and I didn’t get pissed when she denied she called all poker players white trash. I truly got pissed when she called all poker players mafia.” At one point, Rivers called Duke “Hitler” and apologized to Adolf Hitler. “I’m pretty sure in Germany that’s illegal, and you can go to jail,” Duke told the deejays.
Duke said a “Beat Joan Rivers” charity poker event is being planned at the Hard Rock Hotel, with participants playing against a Joan Rivers impersonator.