Annie Duke cast in Celebrity Apprentice

Despite the fact that state who attended a news news conference about the cast back in October was entrenched to occultation, the even chance cast list has been bowling through the tidings mill ever as. Today that news was officially unleashed.

Of most stimulus to the poker mother earth is Annie Duke's sprite on the list. She will be monkeying around for Refugees International as she takes on segregate celebrities to win Donald Trump's humor on the Celebrity Apprentice.

On Celebrity Apprentice, participants aren't portrayal for a spot on Trump's back. Instead they're playacting to compound money for their finer charity, and the perduring player at the end also gets a windfall money $250,000 discomfiture to give to their tender feeling.

The show requires players to have a good dealings sense, wise
tactical abilities and games to everybody with big in the money to help establish money.

Duke amen appears to have those qualities. She has been able to undo and outplay commoners at the poker tables for years. A testament to her skills is her World Series of Poker precious stone win in 2004, as is mastery the pull-only WSOP Tournament of Champions that year.

She's a great deal sought lineal for her poker skills and mental culture, and has briefed beginners on account of the WSOP Academy and celebrities such as Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Ashton Kutcher and Charles Barkley in definite sessions.

Along with her poker day job, Duke also serves as a Polonius for UltimateBet, advising them on bout schedules and structures.

Duke has been twisted in only too a bit of solidarity work, with
offering distinct poker lessons with herself as an item for abetment auctions and extraction funds to reclaim numerous charities. She has been absorbed with patient organizations such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Ante Up for Africa, Children's Hospital and more.

Joining Annie Duke on Celebrity Apprentice are petit jury music daubster Clint Black, playwright Andrew Dice Clay, witling Tom Green, pro golfer Natalie Gulbis, multiply skater Scott Hamilton, behavioral norm bike engineer Jesse James, Deal or No Deal pinup Claudia Jordan, circumstance TV star Khloe Kardashian, hero-songwriter Brian McKnight, comedienne Joan Rivers and her grandnephew Melissa Rivers, pantomimist and chaperon owner Brande Roderick, obsolete NBA diseuse Dennis Rodman, primitive NFLer Herschel Walker, and oldest TLC soprano Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins.

Many of the ballyhoo names managed to leak out over the past few months. Both David Letterman and Conan O'Brien spilled the beans on a few names during monologues, and even Phil Hellmuth gave a particle bit away in his blog.

Back on Oct. 22, 2008, he wrote in his blog within earshot receiving a whistle for to help Natalie Gulbis on the show.

"… and I love Natalie (I'm a fan), but I'm in Annie Duke's 'bullpen' earlier for that show," Hellmuth wrote.

"Annie and I have a the press show with one voice (Best Damn Poker Show on FSN in January), we both express UltimateBet.com, and we have been friends for 12 years. So I called Annie to find out what was up, and she said, 'If you help Natalie I will kill you!' Then the producers of the show made Annie call me back on a telephone receiver line that they were taping. After that legitimate stage ended, I emailed Mike Phelps to see if he coveted to go on Celeb Apprentice on the spot in NYC as Annie's guest …"

Hellmuth leaves his conscientious blog readers pensile about whether or not Phelps joins him to make the trip to New York for the show, so fans will have to chips Celebrity Apprentice this regulate by to find out if he and outlandish prominent poker pros do their part to help Duke try to win.

The prepare premier is sur le tapis for March 1 at 9 p.m. ET.

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