Bodog Beat

As if insulting Annie Duke and the entire poker community on Celebrity Apprentice wasn't bad enough, poker hater-er Joan Rivers was at it again when she phoned in for an interview on SportsTalk 790 AM The Ticket, this time her target was poker legend Doyle Brunson.

When the whole Apprentice thing went down, Brunson took to his blog to decry Rivers as an enemy of the poker community and made a comment calling into question her intelligence based on ignorant remarks made by her on the show about poker players in general, and specifically Duke. When read this quote, Rivers erupted into another one of her self-centered, ill-advised and under-informed rants, accusing Brunson of trying to get famous "on [her] back" (so many jokes, so little time) and advised the poker great that when he was 76 and had a career like hers he could then come and talk to her, but until then could go "die under a deck of cards." She also called him a moron. Hi pot, this is kettle, you're black.

Anyway, as fate would have it. Brunson was scheduled to appear later in the show to hype his new book, The Godfather of Poker. The hosts of the show played back Rivers' rant an unperturbed Brunson just had this to say:

“That’s better than dying under what she dies under – a pile of manure. She insulted poker players as a group and I’m very upset with her. She had no call to berate the poker community like she did. I think it showed no class. Joan Rivers don’t need us and we don’t need Joan Rivers, so good luck to her. By the way, I’m 76 too – you can tell her.” (thanks to Bluff Magazine for the transcription)

So, kudos to Brunson for his vigorous defense of the poker community, and for giving us something to write about.