Professional female poker player and former member of the Team Full Tilt, Clonie Gowen, has recently filed a lawsuit against Full Tilt Poker, and several other individuals and companies related to the online poker brand. In her complaint, Gowen not only names Tiltware, Inc, Full Tilt Poker software developers, but also both Full Tilt sites (FullTiltPoker.com and the instructional site FullTiltPoker.net), Pocket Kings Ltd., Kolyma Corporation and all members of the “Team Full Tilt,” including Allen Cunningham, Gus Hansen, Erick Lindgren, John Juanda, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, Phil Ivey, Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, Patrik Antonius, Howard Lederer, Erik Seidel, Andy Bloch, Jennifer Harman, Phil Gordon and Ray Bitar.

The suit states that Gowen was hired by Full Tilt as one of its “celebrity players” and that her payment for that job was a 1% ownership of the company and any extended parts thereof. However, Gowen’s attorneys maintain that FullTilt has infringed its contract terms, fiduciary responsibilities, good faith and fair dealing agreements, unjust enrichment and fraud pacts.

Gowen played as part of the “Team Full Tilt” from 2004 until November 11^th, 2008, during that time she wore the poker site logos and promoted the brand at many poker tournaments and events around the world. According to the lawsuit, she did not get any tournament buy ins or other compensations besides the stipulated 1% ownership. Her attorneys also claim that several members of the Team Full Tilt received unrevealed payments and that she was excluded from this special treatment. Her attorneys have also stated that after 2007, Gowen was started having frictions with other Team Full Tilt members, and that consequently, she was pushed out of the Team. Now, Gowen is looking to get paid one percent of the entire Full Tilt operation, amount that according to her attorneys can reach $40 million, with the additional possibility of adding punitive damages to the final amount.