Doyle Brunson is a man of honor. When someone steps within his holy circle of poker and ridicules those near and dear to him, the man with the hat has a tongue as sharp as a blade.
Brunson has started a Twitter Tirade against the Queen of Comedy, Joan Rivers, who attacked fellow Celebrity Apprentice finalist, Annie Duke of Absolutepoker, and the rest of the poker world.
Rivers, who coined Duke anything from ‘white trash’ to ‘Hitler’, even had her own daughter, Melissa, who was fired from the show, call Duke a “Whore Pit Viper”.
Doyle Brunson, WSOP bracelet winner and papa of Doyle’s Room poker site, stepped in when he saw how Ms. Duke was being abused by the comedian.
He first demanded that Rivers apologize to the poker world for generalizing about poker players by calling them ‘tax evaders’ and ‘individuals with no last names’.
He then he used the greatest invention to get those opinions out fast and furiously – Twitter – to get the last word in against Joan Rivers.
Tweets such as: “If you gave Joan Rivers a penny for intelligence, you’d get a refund” and “Joan Rivers went to the doctor for a zit on her butt. He told her it was a brain tumor” have hit the scene and Doyle Brunson has promised not to let up until Rivers apologizes to the poker world and Annie Duke.
But Rivers is not letting up. She recently posted on her blog: “Hey, poker playing is a very noble profession! Florence Nightingale was torn between nursing and a career playing Texas Hold ‘em!”
Rivers may be looking to bury the hatchet though as things may be getting too out of hand. She recently tweeted a request for the poker world to “CALM DOWN”.
Unfortunately, in a showdown between Rivers and Duke in the final of the Celebrity Apprentice show, Trump hired the comedian over Duke, causing a roar of complaints against the producers. Duke, though, managed to earn lots of money for the charity she promoted and has been taking full advantage of her TV appearance to solicit funds for Refugees International.
