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In a crazy story that was first relayed to me by my boyfriend (who actually ran the original piece over at PokerNewsGuru.com), it looks as if one of my FAVORITE women poker players is suing her former employer for a huge breach of contract dispute!  How big you might ask ladies?  Well, $40 million bucks kind of big, lol.

The person at the center of the legal drama is none other than Clonie Gowen, a now-former (she was released on November 11th, 2008) Team Full Tilt Poker member who is suing the Online Poker superpower for apparently not paying her the amount promised to her during a 2004 phone conversation with the execs that run the poker site.  During this conversation, she was guaranteed a 1% ownership stake in the company, but only through what she believes was an orally binding agreement.  Mind you, this poor girl didn’t even get that big of a deal put in writing!

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SKY UK Poker Tour - Nottingham

Women poker pro Maria “Chili” Demetriou took first place in Event One of the The Sky Poker UK Tour and a seat into the Grande Finale Event. The inaugural Sky UK Poker Tour began last Saturday at the UK’s grandest card room, Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham. Demetriou was among 120 players who qualified through online Satellites at SkyPoker.com as well as live Satellites held at Dusk Till Dawn. Read more…

There’s A New Poker School In Town (well almost!)

From the founder of the High Heels Poker Tour, Lauren Failla, will soon come the Women’s Ultimate Poker Academy. Failla recently played in the 2008 World Series of Poker and placed 63rd in the WSOP Ladies No Limit Hold’em Event.  The event had 1,060 entrants and became the second largest poker event to date featuring women only.  Several top women poker pros will be joining Failla to help manage the poker school. Read more…

Fifty Players Will Win Seats to Titan Poker’s $2.5K Guaranteed!

Do you have your seat yet for Titan Poker’s $2.5K State 1R/A 50 Seat Satellite? There’s still time to register for a qualifier or satellite.  Stage 3 ‘1hand’ Sit N’ Go Tournaments have $2.20+$.20 buy-ins and Stage 2 Satellites have $20+$2 buy-ins still available for online poker players up until Sunday, August 31st and 8:35p.m. (GMT+1).

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APT Macau Woos Olympian Great - Michael Phelps.

In his spare time (apparently he does have some!), Olympic US swimmer Michael Phelps can be found playing online poker.  With his reign as Olympic Champion Gold Medal world record breaker, his next goal is to compete in a World Series of Poker Championship someday.

Before heading back to the States from Beijing, he might be making his first live poker appearance by making a stop in Macau for the Asian Poker Tour (APT).  Phelps has been offered Read more…

1st International LIPS and Pro Poker Challenge of America Classic.

Peru will soon be introduced to the lovely ladies of poker as the Ladies International Poker Series (LIPS) graces the country with the LIPS Tour.  Pro Poker Challenge of America in conjunction with LIPS is setting afloat the history making poker series on August 23^rd.  The series will run through September 1^st and will be played at the Casino Atlantic City, in the City of Miraflores in Lima, Peru.

Buy-ins will begin at $225 to $550 for the daily events Read more…

Team PokerStars re-gains poker great Kathy Liebert? Not really, it is just for One Night Only.

Kathy Liebert made a representation deal with PokerStars to wear a PokerStars t-shirt and hat, for one night only at the 2008 WSOP Final Table. A couple of years ago Kathy was a Team PokerStars Pro but after her contract with them ended, she went on to pursue other Read more…