I might pick one up and name her Moan Rivers.

Karen – For all the love you have for Joan Rivers, I must commend you for it. There is one thing that I have wondered though after watching the episode with the jewelry auction. Donald ask her about getting donors for the charity auction and she said that all the people she knew (and Donald knew also) had turned her down. Mellisa even got offended by it, saying there’s some kind of issue with Joan and her “friends.” If she is so respectable, then why are all the people in her circle (and Donald’s) turning there back on her?

I will now go let my inner-child cry for knowing so much about a realty show. On to real poker news…

A poker forum? A POKER FORUM?!? I know poker forums … I’ve been on the internet for 40 years!

Jen, this is a blog. 2+2 is a forum. Did I not send you the welcome pamphlet?

Funny that people have come to this forum – a poker forum – to bash Annie Duke. You ladies aren’t going to find many sympathetic voices here, especially when your arguments are general and your views of poker players are baseless and merely an echo of something that a racist, selfish Joan Rivers said on a TV show.

Oh, and when you CAPITALIZE so many words, some of the emphasis on your point is LOST.

Contrary to what YOU THINK, the ratings are going to PLUMMET (that would be DOWN-ward) with just Annie and Brande to stab each other in the back.
Jesse is also (along w/Joan and Melissa) the best marketing mind on that show. Everybody ELSE was just “window dressing.”

Annie may know how to play poker –but she’s not going ANYWHERE ELSE outside those tables. She is ignorant and two=faced as only a WOMAN can be. As far as the weeks I have watched HER, she has no intelligence, zero redeemable traits and Lord knows, no class what so ever! Joan Rivers is a SEVENTY=some year old ICON in the entertainment industry. As such, she deserves RESPECT (SOMETHING which poker players seem to sadly LACK).

Joan paid her dues for sixty years … raising more money and awareness for the IMPORTANT causes and charities. For THAT alone, her opinions matter –and R-E-S-P-E-C-T is the LEAST she deserves.

I do not know from under WHICH ROCK Annie crawled and she may indeed be a VERY BIG “deal” in Vegas –but in the great scheme of things, Vegas ain’t MUCH!

Annie and Brande are two whores who have NEITHER CLASS nor brain cells. Melissa and Joan were BOTH right in their slams against the two bimbos/

From everything I could see, Joan took herself off the show. If Joan Rivers was playing for charity, she just bailed on her charity. If she was playing purely for the game itself, she just disrespected the game by quitting early. The fact that Joan Rivers walked when Melissa was fired shows pretty clearly that she was there solely to support her daughter.

Didn’t you find it a little “conniving” for two players on opposite teams (Joan & Melissa) to be openly colluding in the boardroom? Nobody else ever spoke up about who should be fired or saved on the opposing team.

If this had been Entertainment Weekly or TV Guide’s website, those comments would have been far more appropriate. But at a website for hard-core poker people? It totally missed the mark.