Annie Duke: Games beat reality

 

April 28, 2009

("Movable Buffet" blogger Richard Abowitz references Anthony Curtis and the feature he’s currently writing about him in relation to Annie Duke’s game-playing strategy on "Celebrity Apprentice.")

 

I don’t usually watch television, and so I missed Sunday’s moment when Melissa Rivers called poker player Annie Duke "a whore pit viper." Her mother, Joan Rivers, then apparently used shameful comparisons to those who commit genocide to equate her daughter’s losing a game show meant to raise money for charity to a professional poker player…

 

…So how do I know this?

 

First, I am reporting and writing a feature for Las Vegas Weekly on Anthony Curtis, the owner of the gamblers’ consumer newsletter Las Vegas Advisor as well as the publisher of Huntington Press [which has a title by Annie Duke in the works].

 

To read the complete article, click here.

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