May 13th, 2009 
Scott If you guys haven’t already heard about it in the news the second season of the Celebrity Apprentice just finished and the winner was Joan Rivers. Annie Duke who is a professional poker player with a WSOP bracelet finished in second place and it was a very heated battle between Joan and Annie. The two of them fought all season long exchanging punchlines with each other and it lead to the finale of the show with the two of them squaring off against each other.
In the final task the two of them needed to host a party and a silent auction with five separate categories being scored. At the end of the task Joan slipped away with the slight edge by winning three out of the five categories being scored. The reason why I say it was only a slight advantage is because Annie raised way more money then Joan did.
I was really impressed with how Annie played the show and she did a good job representing the poker world. I personally thought that she should have won the season because she did better on the final task in my opinion, she raised more money over the course of the show and won more tasks as the team leader then Joan. All of these reasons I feel should have lead to Annie winning the event, but in the mind most of the people in the board room thought otherwise. I feel a lot of people felt that Joan did well for her age, but it shouldn’t have been about age or anything like that.
On the same note the Cereus Poker Network has been growing in traffic steadily since Annie appeared on the Celebrity Apprentice. It seems her appearance on the show has helped the network grow and I’m not really sure why. I’ll be checking out the network soon and if I feel it’s a good fit for the website we might see my next review show up here.
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