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Written by Marcus | Saturday, February 7th, 2009
In the showdown between FullTilt and Clonie Gowen, in which Gowen is suing FullTilt for denying her 1% ownership of the Tiltware LLC, another chapter unfolds. Gowen originally filed suit against the online poker room back in November, 2008 claiming she was promised the 1% via a verbal agreement between herself and the company back in 2004. It was from 2004 until November 2008 that she promoted the online poker room with no compensation until she was relieved of her sponsorship by FullTilt. Gowen has just recently amended her original claim, adding to it more names and more allegations.
Two more companies were added to the list of many defendants—Pocket Kings Consulting, Ltd. of Ireland and Tiltproof, Inc. of Ireland, who purportedly operate FullTilt’s customer service department.
Also included in the new claim are details of the 2004 meeting that took place between Gowen and all the members of the team, who were allegedly told about the 1% agreement deal. Furthermore, the legal team representing Gowen, Howard & Howard, Attorneys PLLC of Las Vegas, also filed to expedite the case requesting immediate interviews with FullTilt CEO, Ray Bitar, and Chris Ferguson. This is due to the existence of time sensitive information that may be critical to the case and could be lost through deletion or destruction if it is not presented soon. Such evidence may include emails and telephone records, as well as personal testimonies.
Gowen is still demanding her 1%, which comes out to $40 million of the $4 billion that the company is worth. FullTilt is represented by Olson, Cannon, Gormley, and Desruisseaux of Las Vegas, who seems to be on top of the case, filing for dismissal in January of the lawsuit, due to the erratic notions of the claim.
Also named in the lawsuit filed by Gowen are fellow poker pros, Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, Phil Gordon, Andy Bloch, Jennifer Harman, Gus Hansen, and many other members of Team FullTilt. It will be interesting to watch this case unfold further. What seems to be the bottom line though is that if Gowen doesn’t have some sort of concrete evidence that will hold up in court, it doesn’t seem likely that a court will rule in favor of one person, if dozens of others deny the verbal agreement that Gowen would own 1% in FullTilt ever took place.
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