Clonie Gowen is a name that many people are familiar with. She is one of the best female poker players of all time and has been present at many final tables of major tournaments during her poker playing career. Up until recently, she had also been part of Team Full Tilt and in the wake of her dismissal from that role, one of the most followed stories in online poker history resulted.

The story was that Clonie Gowen filed a lawsuit against Full Tilt Poker and various players from Team Full Tilt, alleging that her only compensation for her services was a 1% stake in the company. The stake, which is worth an amount of money in the eight figure range, is now being denied to her on the grounds of her dismissal, something that she is fighting on the basis that her only compensation was that 1% ownership stake. There were no salaried payments and no complimentary payments on buy-ins to tournaments where she promoted the Full Tilt Poker logo and because of that she filed suit not just for the 1% stake, but also for additional damages beyond that.

Well, according to a judge that ruled on the case just recently, the vast majority of the people and entities that she filed suit against were found to have no case against them and for that reason the charges were dismissed. They were dismissed with prejudice, which actually prevents Gowen’s legal team from filing any further lawsuits against those people, although they can appeal the decision to a higher court if they feel it was incorrect. As of the time of writing, her legal team does indeed have plans to make that move.

Her case against the entity Tiltware LLC, the entity’s owner Ray Bitar and the professor of poker Howard Lederer, was dismissed, but without prejudice. That allows her legal team to file suit against them again, something that they fully intend to do. For the moment her chances of getting that 1% stake appear to be dead in the water, but the overall proceeding appears to be far from actually over.