The last stroke of brilliance in the case involving the professional player Clonie Gowen and his employer Full Tilt Poker has just taken place. On January 6, the lawyer representing Tiltware Inc and the 13 players in poker pros that Gowen accuses, tabled a motion of defence based on the Court of United States, Las Vegas district.

The last stroke of brilliance in the case involving the professional player Clonie Gowen and his employer Full Tilt Poker has just taken place. On January 6, the lawyer representing Tiltware Inc and the 13 players in poker pros that Gowen accuses, tabled a motion of defence based on the Court of United States, Las Vegas district.

As previously reported by Poker News Daily, Gowen filed a complaint in mid-November against Tiltware Inc (the Full Tilt Poker software developer), another of its subsidiaries, Pocet Kings Ltd, Kolma Corporation (a foreign company born after the establishment of Full Tilt poker) and the variants .net and .com's site. Gowen said all official members of Team Full Tilt including Ray Bitar, Howard Lederer, Andy Bloch, Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, John Juanda, Phil Gordon, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Jennifer Harman, Mike Matusow, Allen Cunningham, Gus Hansen and Patrik Antonius.

In its civil suit, Gowen alleges that was promised interest of 1% of the profits made by the online poker room when she was hired as a member of Team Full Tilt in 2004. After not having nothing received as compensation for its services, Gowen note that other members of the team received payments. When she asked for his share of the profits, she mentioned that it refused and she found himself trapped by the company. After was relieved of his duties by the site on November 11, Gowen filed a lawsuit of $ 40 million (1% of the 4 billion estimated profits of Full Tilt poker and its entities) in compensation.

12-page motion filed Tuesday by the firm of Olson, Cannon, Gormley and Deshpande in Las Vegas in Nevada asked that the case be dismissed, that the complaint be rewritten and that it mentions the name of such players as shown in the original request.

One of the phrases in this introduction in motion wants to that of Madam Gowen is dismissed against each of the Full Tilt Poker pros: "Mademoiselle Gowen may or may not find a loophole in his contract, but certainly cannot accuse the thirteen pros of oppression or claim due to individual defendants."

As the query continues, can see the team Full Tilt Poker Legal Affairs replied to each of the present charges in the request of mademoiselle Gowen. In addition, to invalidate the request of Gowen, the motion to reject indicates that it was never indicated what was the contract (oral, written, implied contract, etc). Team Full Tilt Poker Legal Affairs said that no form of contract, this case is without merit and should be refiled with more information and more precise. She also mentioned that if the request of Gowen became established, it could involve Gowen itself and Tiltware and not the players mentioned in the case.

Full Tilt lawyers argue that Gowen was not victim in this case because there was no business relationship between it and the rest of Team Full Tilt. The clause of "unwillingness" defended by Gowen should also be rejected according to the lawyers. For what is past present accusations in the original query of Gowen, that they should all be rejected because they are already present earlier in the same query.

This case will probably be the biggest case of poker for early 2009. If Gowen managed to defend its application, it may win a good share of profits Tiltware and Full Tilt itself cake.