He fires people for being a “quitter,” but rewards Joan for her horrible behavior. He’s either afraid of her or made a deal with her before she came on the show that she would be in the final two. No way does she deserve to be there.

You most certainly will be the winner on Sunday night or DT will become even more of a joke than he is already. Sorry I can’t watch.

1) Creating a successful event
2) Raising the most funds for the charity
3) Overall achievement in the Apprentice race

In this season there is one more:
4) Character

Criteria #1 Creating a Successful event
We’ve seen that:
- Annie doesn’t fold under pressure
- that she can be creative when necessary
- that she can manage
- that she can organize an event
- that she can delegate tasks
- she motivates people
- while overseeing the playing field.
That makes her a leader with enough skills to win this criteria.

On the other hand, Melissa is a producer in her own rights and has many years of experience and both Rivers have many connections in this field.
But we have seen Annie played the odds and beat a famous Grammy winner in his own turf.

It’s hard to predict who will win this one, but I’m rooting for Annie.

Criteria #2 Raising the most funds for the charity
We’ve seen that:
- Annie has access to the pool of wealthy people
- being one of the best or maybe the best poker player in the world, she knows all the major players and gamblers of the world, which in turns means she knows who to call for serious money.
- Poker players support each other in time of need and they will turn up for her, when called upon.
- she has a flair with people and she knows how to utilize her female skills, which is a total advantage in her case.
My bet is that she will win this one by a long stretch.

Criteria #3 Overall achievement in the Apprentice race
- Annie has raised the most money during this season
- She has not been called to the boardroom in all the failed tasks
- She has won all the tasks, when she was PM.
- She overcame herself when she was up to an impossible battle

Joan Rivers or Annie Duke?
Well, Annie Duke again!

Criteria #4 Character
The 4th criteria is the most important one.
Though you could argue that both Annie and Joan could have shown a higher norm in character, everyone must admit that Joan went over the top with her Hitler comparison and worse.

Joan has been given plenty of time and moments to rectify her words, but chose to thicken it more during the episodes and in interviews. That alone makes her a big loser on this criteria. You can argue that in the heat of the moment bad words, names and curses are used. It takes character for every man or woman to admit that it was wrong in doing just that and apologizes for that is wrong. Just this fact will separate the winners from the losers.

Joan chose not to do that and hat makes her a big and poor loser.

Due to criteria #4, Donald Trump cannot name Joan Rivers as the Celebrity Apprentice, because of her obscene name calling and behavior, thus character. A winner that can go on insulting other people Hitler and worse? What example and effect would that have on today’s and future society? What would that make Donald Trump by rewarding an over the top insulting Joan Rivers with the Celebrity Apprentice while carrying his name on the show.

It will damage the integrity and brand of Donald Trump, when he does name Joan Rivers the Celebrity Apprentice.
That will not happen.

So in my opinion, the winner was already called, when the 2 opponents were named Joan Rivers vs Annie Duke.

The winner and the Celebrity Apprentice 2009 is:
ANNIE DUKE

There is only one BUT.
Annie has the best cards to win this game, BUT as we all know it takes just a single bad beat to lose all your chips. This bad beat could be named Donald Trump. Truly up to his name, he holds the Trump card.

Who wins?
As with every hold ‘em game, it’s up to the RIVERS card.

Watching you has been a roller coaster. I love you & your strategy, but the bits of insecurity that drop out of your aggressive self-promotion hurt. I know that the editing probably adds an unfair bias, but you should try to put a filter on the “me” statements–they’re probably the ONLY detriment of your (self-admitted) loose mouth as everything else it emits is intelligent, insightful, and surprisingly composed. Obviously, mainstream likability isn’t required for financial success, but it really makes your life easier.

I’m nobody in a position to be giving you this advice, but I can’t help it. I really like you & think you could be infectious with a tiny tweak.

Let those who be without sin cast the first stone. If we look far enough into ANYONE’S personality we can find negative things to bring out.

Annie is doing a splendid job! If it turns out she’s the best game player playing this game then that’s the ticket. If not, then life goes on.