Manne
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2010/08/24 07:41
#281604
Manne wrote:
In one of those moments that would cause a record to skip in a bad 90s comedy, Daniel Negreanu called Annie Duke a phrase that we can't use on the Bodog Beatbut let's just say it's two words long and rhymes with "Clucking Bunt." Yes, we're shocked, too, even with the bad blood that has existed between the duo for some time. Surely, there's some sort of context for this, as in she burnt his house down or had his family shanked while they visited Disney, right? No — she said that it was fine for men to enter the Lady's Tournament at the World Series of Poker, which set off the pro. Here's the exact quote from PokerPlayer's interview with him for further context:
What irked me is that this woman has the audacity on her website to call herself ‘the best female poker player in the world’. So on one side of the coin she’s fighting for, ‘Oh, we’re all equal, there shouldn’t be any gender thing,’ but when appropriate she decides to call herself the best female poker player in the world.
So I’m like ‘how offensive are you, you ****ing ***t? You want to say you’re speaking for women, yet you claim superiority over all of them.’
Annie Duke may be a bit hard-nosed and not to everyone's taste, but this is just beyond the pale, even for the man who once went off on why "Black Entertainment Television" shouldn't exist in the sort cliché-heavy rant that most sensible people are embarrassed by. Some have already started to refer to this as a "heel turn" for the pro, speculating that this could actually derail his career and professional sponsorships.
Duke's response on Twitter was typically Annie: "Thank you for the support. I was certainly shocked at the language myself. I welcome criticism but not abuse." Considering that she shrugged it off when Joan Rivers called her "worse than Adolf Hitler" on Celebrity Apprentice 2 before launching into a diatribe about her connections to the mafia because she plays poker, getting any kind of response from Duke must mean that she was deeply affected.
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What irked me is that this woman has the audacity on her website to call herself ‘the best female poker player in the world’. So on one side of the coin she’s fighting for, ‘Oh, we’re all equal, there shouldn’t be any gender thing,’ but when appropriate she decides to call herself the best female poker player in the world.
So I’m like ‘how offensive are you, you ****ing ***t? You want to say you’re speaking for women, yet you claim superiority over all of them.’
Annie Duke may be a bit hard-nosed and not to everyone's taste, but this is just beyond the pale, even for the man who once went off on why "Black Entertainment Television" shouldn't exist in the sort cliché-heavy rant that most sensible people are embarrassed by. Some have already started to refer to this as a "heel turn" for the pro, speculating that this could actually derail his career and professional sponsorships.
Duke's response on Twitter was typically Annie: "Thank you for the support. I was certainly shocked at the language myself. I welcome criticism but not abuse." Considering that she shrugged it off when Joan Rivers called her "worse than Adolf Hitler" on Celebrity Apprentice 2 before launching into a diatribe about her connections to the mafia because she plays poker, getting any kind of response from Duke must mean that she was deeply affected.
:dirol