Clonie Gowen Sues Full Tilt Poker
Posted by Curtom | November 17, 2008 | Posted in: Articles, News |Looks like Clonie Gowen is unhappy with her deal with Full Tilt Poker. Apparently she believes she was jilted when the revenue was distributed to Full Tilt full members earlier in the year and she is now seeking retribution. I find this rather odd to say the least. The reason being is that most people know that full Full Tilt members are comprised of the founders of Full Tilt plus Patrick Antonious. Most everyone else is a Friend of Full Tilt professional or Full Tilt friend. The founding members of Full Tilt each have a 1% stake in ownership.
Full Tilt poker is estimated to be worth approximately $2 Billion dollars.
Gowen believes that when she was being courted by Full Tilt that a verbal commitment was made assuring her of being a full Full Tilt member. Again, if you take notice to the founders and full Full Tilt members you will see that they are all upper echelon poker professionals like Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, Gus Hanson, Andy Bloch etc. Clonie is indeed a good poker player and successful cash game player but she is nowhere near the top echelon of tournament or cash game players. I don’t see this law suit going anywhere especially since she has nothing in writing other than her being a Full Tilt Pro.
Here are the claims made in the case filed in Nevada on November 14th:
• Breach of Contract
• Breach of Fiduciary Duties
• Breach of Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing
• Unjust Enrichment
• Fraud/Intentional Misrepresentation
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She’s sue happy. She threatened to sue a poker site because their site forum moderator had the name “Clonie” in her screen name. She’s full of herself. Someone needs to remind her that she’s NOT God’s gift to poker or anything else for that matter. Her “management” made a huge mistake with her. They tried to push her as the premiere female poker player on the planet and in the process turned down tons of media because it “didn’t fit in to her celebrity stature.” Her status an the premiere OPPORTUNIST is about to come to an end. After this, nobody will touch her. Can you spell backfire? How much money have you made in tournaments Clonie? How many bracelets do you have?
Thanks for chiming in Danny. You make a very spirited argument my friend. I happen to agree that Clonie is far from being one of the “premier” female tournament players in the world. Kathy Leibert, Jennifer Harmon, Annette Obrestad, and Annie Duke still hold those positions in my mind. They are far more accomplished than Clonie for my money. I will be talking about this scenario in my next podcast.
Stay tuned!