Full Tilt Poker in Hot
Water
December 6, 2009
Full Tilt Poker just can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to
lawsuits. The online poker site is involved with two lawsuits already, and
now they are facing a third one. It is tough to know whether this new one
will be easier or harder for the online poker site as it is the first one to
come from a consumer instead of from someone within the poker industry. Not
only that, but they used to work for the poker site itself.
The online poker site already has two lawsuits that they are attending to.
One is from a former employee Jason Newitt, and the other is from former
poker pro Clonie Gowen. The new suit comes to them from Lary “pokergirl z”
Kennedy and former poker customer Greg Omotoy. They are accusing the poker
site of fraud, libel, slander, false advertising, and racketeering.
They are upset as they say that the poker site took more than $80,000 from
the poker players’ accounts because they said that they were using bots.
According to the poker site, it is illegal to use bots to play any of their
games as it gives the poker player an unfair advantage to win. Kennedy had
posted her story on a poker forum asking for advice. Then the story broke
that she was “multi-accounting” and trying to elicit more action at the
tables.
The poker site received complaints and Kennedy got her account frozen and
was booted from the poker site. Kennedy is asking for restitution and
damages in relation to the money that they took but is also coming after
them regarding the way the company was run. She maintains that they were
actually one company although they portrayed themselves as two separate
identities an in doing so they gambled across state lines, they ran bots on
their site in order to slow down play, they say that they were actually an
online casino and not a card room which makes them illegal in the state of
California, etc. The list of complaints goes on and on – it should be
interesting to see how it works out.
