Annie Duke is fighting back at Joan Rivers' insensitive comments about poker players.
Duke and Rivers were both finalists on NBC's "The Celebrity Apprentice," where Duke was fired and Rivers was hired.
On May 27 at 6 p.m., Duke and her poker sponsor Ultimate Bet will hold a charity poker tournament at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, where she will flood the tables with more than 20 Joan Rivers impersonators (including impressionist Frank Marino, who does a fantastic Joan Rivers), each with a bounty on their head. The name of the charitable event? "Sucking out on the Rivers."
The buy-in is $200, and all of the prize money will go to the winner, with the suggestion that the winner donate half the winnings to the Refugees International charity (the Nevada Gaming Commission prohibits all of a prize pool going directly to a charity).
On "The Apprentice," Rivers called all poker players "white trash" and linked them to organized crime.
