Clonie Gowen vs Full Tilt

Tsk tsk and for shame, on both ends. First and foremost, I am very concerned to hear that Full Tilt allegedly does not pay its pro members. The fact that Full Tilt has not flat out denied that they were supposed to pay her and didn’t, leads me to believe they were proooobably supposed to pay her. So my concern now lies with the credibility of the site’s management. If it won’t pay its professional players, how can I take any comfort in ME being paid? You don’t screw your players over, behind the scenes, that’s as shady as it gets.
HOWEVER, this does not merit Gowen going after her fellow players, come on now. It’s not their fault that they got paid and she didn’t. It’s not their responsibility to make sure she has a paycheck. They didn’t make her keep playing at Full Tilt for four years without getting paid, and they certainly have not wronged her in any way. They sign into an online poker room and play tables for a living, and sometimes they attend major offline tourneys. They are not management, they are not customer service, they are poker players. It almost would appear that she’s jealous of them, because they got what was promised them, and she didn’t.
And Howard Lederer, despite this not being his responsibility, offered Gowen $250,000 last year and she refused it, because she was due more than that. So rather than take ¼ of a million dollars, she decides she’ll just not get paid for another year, as a matter of principle.
Jim Kohl, one of Gowen’s attorneys, “We are confident the allegations will be proven at trial. Clonie has been wrongly denied her compensation and, after we go through the process of discovery, we feel the court will find in our favor.”
Full Tilt should pay as soon as Gowen drops the other 13 players from the case.