Clonie Gowen | Team Full Tilt Player

NO CLOWNING AROUND WITH CLONIE GOWEN

Arresting, charming, athletic, sexy and blonde, Clonie Gowen could have made a career anytime in Hollywood or even in sports. Instead, she chose to become a superstar of the poker table.

Born Cycalona Gowen, this queen of the cards grew up in Kiowa, Oklahoma. As a teenager, nobody would have thought she'd grow up lording over one poker table after another atlhough they all knew she had a winner in her. Clonie Gowen was on a state championship basketball team. She also showed her prowess in athletics, and was ranked seventh in the high jump in track and field. She was crowned Miss Teen McAlester, Oklahoma at fifteen. And being an all-around A student, her impressive athletic performance was complemented with having her science fair project featured in the Oklahoma state finals. Certainly, nothing in her teenage resume would indicate that this Team Full Tilt Player would make it big in the world of poker.

This 37-year old mother of two started playing poker in 1986 and consequently began cashing in on a very lucrative and rewarding professional poker career in 2002 when she finished second in the Costa Rica Classic World Poker Tournament. The succeeding years were also filled with impressive finishes for Clonie Gowen in various tournaments including the Third Jack Binion Mid America Poker Classic, the Fall Poker Round-Up and the 7th Annual Spring Poker Round-Up.

Fearless and very much feared at the poker table, this Team Full Tilt Player further rushed on year after year building for herself a name with an amazing poker career.

In 2005, Clonie Gowen bagged fourth place in the Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic / World Poker Tournament. She likewise stormed over poker tables at the Borgata Poker Open World Poker Tournament and the Ultimate Poker Challenge as well as in the 36th Annual World Series of Poker that same year.

The following year, she still made waves and registered impressive finishes in the World Poker Tournament Season 5 at the Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic and the World Poker Finas as well, including the 37th Annual World Series of Poker held in June and August of 2006.

Indeed there seemed to be no stopping this poker femme fatale as she further boosted her professional poker career in the 38th Annual World Series of Pokerand the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge III in 2007. That same year, Clonie Gowen also finished 11th and 6th in the WPT World Championship and the 2007 Crown Aussie Millions Championship respectively.

This year, 2008, this Team Full Tilt Player finished first place both at the World Poker Open and in the 7th season of the World Poker Tournament at the Bellagio. She likewise gave a great poker showing at the various events of the World Series of Poker this year. Her total winnnings have reached a total of over $919,066.

A professional poker player that hopes to have more and more people look at professional poker as a game of intricate skill, we definitely can look forward to more of Clonie Gowen in the succeeding years.

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