Full Tilt Poker’s beautiful and skilled poker pro with a heart, Clonie Gowen offered heiress and socialite Paris Hilton the chance to play poker for charity on Fox Sports Network’s Best Damn Sports Show Period this week.
Backed by Full Tilt Poker, Gowen challenged Hilton to a $100 000 charity poker tournament. The winner will receive $100 000 to award to the charity of their choice.
“Paris seems to be a great girl, however, she represents everything that I am not, but now that she has stepped into my world (the poker world, where Hilton reportedly lost a luxury automobile in a game recently) I challenge her to put her poker skills to work for charity. $100 000 will go a long way to helping those in need. Paris, are you in?” said Gowen.
Gowen, who is a very active fund raiser for several U.S. charities features in Maxim Magazine’s July issue. Known to some as one of the sexiest women in poker, Clonie (she’s named after an Oklahoma cyclone during which she was born) burst onto the poker scene by following up her top 10 finish at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Costa Rica Classic with a win at the World Poker Tour Ladies’ Night event in 2003. Her victory against world-class players Annie Duke and fellow Full Tilt Poker pro and Team Full Tilt member Jennifer Harman was watched my millions of viewers and was the highest rated WPT show ever.