Clonie Gowen As a member of the massive Full Tilt Poker roster, Gowen was regularly featured on shows such as Poker After Dark. Gowen put together a strong list of results in the late-2000s but left the tournament scene in the days following Black Friday. Find the perfect Clonie Gowen stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. Select from premium Clonie Gowen of the highest quality. She was born during a powerful cyclonic storm that hit her home town, inspiring her full birth name, Cycalona. She is called Clonie for short.
- Clonie Gowen was holding J♦ 10♣ in a Las Vegas cash game and looking at a flop of J♣ 10♠ A♥. Vanessa Rousso, holding A♣ 4♠ had hit the top pair and made a bet of $1200 which Gowen called.
- Formerly the owner of a travel agency, Clonie now is a full time poker player and host, and also a full time mother to two children, a 12-year-old daughter (Morgan) and a 3-year-old son (Seth). As of 20005, her total live tournament winnings exceed $205,000.
How would you feel if you were the son or daughter of a poker loving mother? Probably very good if your surname was Gowen and your mother’s name was Cycalona. That’s right, we’re talking about Clonie Gowen, one of the most successful female poker players in the world.
Clonie grew up in Kiowa, Oklahoma, and spent her early years growing up as a high school jock. She was one of the best players in the state championship basketball team and also a success in the high jump in track and field. She was also crowned Miss Teen McAlester, Oklahoma.
Before she got hooked on poker, she moved to Dallas, Texas, where she is living today. She then started traveling to Shreveport, Louisiana on weekends and made a few hundred bucks enough to make a living out of it. But her success in poker was only a fraction of what she got out of entering the World Poker Tour Costa Rica Classic. She finished the top 10 and got an invitation to World Poker Tour Ladies Night 2003. Despite top-class players such as Annie Duke and Jennifer Harman, on top of millions of eagerly watching viewers, she proved she was the best by winning.
Full Tilt Poker Bonus CodeToday, Clonie is an active team member of the Full Tilt Poker along with players like Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson and Phil Gordon. In fact, this poker room was founded by professional players to give regular people a chance to play against the big stars. It is not uncommon for Clonie Gowen to sit down at mid stake tables and give the other players a run for their money something she’s usually pretty good at.
Besides cooperating with others in a poker room, Clonie is a regular columnist for the acclaimed Bluff Magazine, a poker paper that is circulating in hundreds of thousands of copies. And as if that wasn’t enough, Clonie assists the United States Poker Association (USPA) with her knowledge.
Clonie Gowen’s winnings exceed $250,000 although we can tell for sure that she has other sources of income, let alone her position as a member of the Full Tilt Poker team, which surely brings in a buck or two. In other words, Clonie is a successful and beautiful woman who knows how to bet and bluff.
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The poker world is strange in that players can be a major figure on the scene one day and then gone the next. The poker boom made celebrities out of players who made a single signature tournament run or multiple appearances on poker televisions shows. The range was unlimited. For most of those players, they eventually faded away to make room for new stars.The five listed below saw their star power dry up almost on the spot. Lucky for them, they had plenty of money stashed away (we think) to laugh at all the way to the bank. They are no longer with the poker world leading many to wonder how they left the game in the first place.
1. Darrell Dicken (Gigabet)
Known as “Gigabet” in the online world, Dicken was as OG as it gets when it comes to the first wave of internet tournament superstars. Dicken racked up millions in earnings and left all to wonder how he was able to do it so easily. The success Dicken had playing against virtual opponents translated into the live game. Dicken accumulated $1.865 million in earnings with two World Poker Tour final tables highlighting the list.
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Dicken’s last live cash came in 2009 at the World Series of Poker and since then, Dicken has been in the wind. There is no social media trail to find Dicken on and can only hope that he is using the brain he used to make millions with on another constructive project.
2. Craig Marquis
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The first-ever World Series of Poker Main Event November Nine final table took place in 2008. In a field of 6,844, nine fortunate souls regroup almost four months later to battle for the Main Event title. The first player to depart was Texan Craig Marquis. The college student earned $900,000 for his finish and plenty of camera time with his battles against Brandon Cantu and Tiffany Michelle.
Like Dicken, Marquis last cashed in the WSOP and has yet to be heard from since. That payout came in 2010 and one can imagine that Marquis has since then moved on to other projects. His degree could possibly be involved there and the near $1 million he won likely serves as a nest egg.
3. Clonie Gowen
As a member of the massive Full Tilt Poker roster, Gowen was regularly featured on shows such as Poker After Dark. Gowen put together a strong list of results in the late-2000s but left the tournament scene in the days following Black Friday. Not many televised characters have come close to matching Gowen’s flair and charisma in the years since she left the game.
There have been rumors about Gowen’s whereabouts posted in recent years but they have not lead to anything affirmative. Should Gowen ever return to the live poker world, her positive personality would light up any table.
4. John Hanson
Remember the 2009 WSOP $50,000 Poker Players Championship event final table that took over 20 hours to complete? John Hanson sure does. The New Yorker with a background in cash games made the $50,000 event his personal playground in 2007 and 2009. Those years, Hanson finished third and second, respectively. In 2009, Hanson battled David Bach for seven hours in heads-up play before falling short of victory.
Hanson has not recorded a single tournament cash in the time since that event. The $789,199 he earned in 2009 along with the $852,000 he claimed in 2007 are not bad numbers to have as two of four career cashes. The $50,000 field has undergone a makeover in recent years but Hanson’s black hat stands out almost 10 years since his last appearance.
5. Jason Lester
If a card or two goes different in the 2003 WSOP Main Event, then maybe we’re having a conversation about the “Lester” effect. Alas, Jason Lester wound up placing fourth and earned a footnote in poker history. Lester followed that disappointment up a few years later with a bracelet win in 2006.
The Florida resident appears to have given up the tournament grind a few years ago. Lester will always have the tale of the “one” he could have had but overall, a career of $2.3 million in earnings is solid.
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Lester appeared stoic and often humorless on television, perhaps not a full representation of his personality. Based on that perception, though, perhaps it is best he was not thrust into the ambassador role bestowed up Chris Moneymaker.
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There are probably dozens if not hundreds of other poker players who have since disappeared from the scene. Give us a shout on Twitter with your favorite poker player that vanished.