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.

Last year Doyle had two deep finishes but failed to make a final table. His last WSOP final table came in ’07 when he finished eighth in the $50K HORSE event. His last big tournament win came back in ’06 when he won his 10th bracelet in the $5K Short Handed Event.

It’s possible for Doyle to win any tournament he plays in, but his health and age have taken some of the competitiveness out of his game. His best chances will be in the high roller events.

They will join several other poker pros, including including J.C. Tran, Nam Le, Quinn Do, APT Philippines champion David Saab, at the Galaxy StarWorld Hotel and Casino on August 27 for the USD $5,300 buy-in tournament, which also offers a $1.5 million guaranteed prize pool.

There will also be a little added incentive for these pros to make the trip as tournament officials have also just announced that there will be a high stakes poker game during the APT Macau. Minimum buy-in is set at HKD $1,000,000 (approximately USD $128,000). The Brunsons along with several other players have confirmed their involvement. The senior Brunson will also be hosting a book signing while in Macau.

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The turn was an and the river a . Brunson got up and moved like a bolt of lightning greased with Ben Gay. We have to question his need for that scooter of his after seeing it. Really this guy can boogie.

Anyway, Brunson's out and he seemed pretty miffed about it. Joining him on the sidelines today are a few other well-known poker pros including: Phil Ivey, Vinnie Vinh (and his chair), Annie Duke, David Williams, Andy Bloch, Tom Schneider and Jennifer Tilly.

WSOP coverage requires at least one Jennifer Tilly picture so here it is. It's not the greatest but cut us some slack, she wasn't here for very long.

In the sports celebrity category of WSOP bust outs we have: Jose Conseco, Chuck Liddell and the new UFC light-heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin.

Stay tuned to the Beat for more WSOP news, blues and pocket twos. Yeah, we know that made no sense. We're tired OK?

One of the most recent additions asks bettors whether they think Johnny Chan or Doyle Brunson will win their eleventh WSOP bracelet this year.

The odds for either Brunson or Chan to capture it are evenly set at 14/1. The odds for both players to do it is set at 40/1 and for neither of them to win a bracelet this year the odds are set at 1/33.

We at the Beat are thinking that betting on neither of them is not only not very lucrative but pretty boring. We also aren’t too into the long shot as it doesn’t quite pay out as much as we’d like. With the payouts even for both players we’re thinking that it comes down to picking either Chan or Brunson. And since most of Doyle’s bracelets come from a time when Cro-Magnons were still competing with Homo Sapiens for the flesh of Dodo Birds on a continent known as Pangaea… well we’re going to have to say that relatively speaking Chan is on absolute fire with his last bracelet being won in 2003.

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