Essentially, the allegations are that Full Tilt — with unfettered ability to label a player a bot, confiscate her money, and smear her name by calling her a bot — constitutes organized crime … being perpetuated by Californians against Californians, in violation of all sorts of California business and gaming laws.

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If it turns out pokergirl_z was not a bot — and she claims to have video proof — it could be quite the expensive security goof.

Courthouse News Service - Poker Player Says Site Falsely Accused Her of Using 'Robots'

LOS ANGELES (CN) - A professional poker player says the Web site Fulltiltpoker.com confiscated more than $80,000 of her winnings after unjustly accusing her of using "robots" to beat other players.

Lary Kennedy sued the site and more than a dozen of its in-house pros and principals in Los Angeles Superior Court, accusing them of racketeering, fraud, libel, slander and other charges.

Poker News Daily - Full Tilt Poker Sued Over Bot Use

The legal woes keep piling up for Full Tilt Poker, as the site now has a third lawsuit on its hands to go along with pending legal action from former pro Clonie Gowen and former employee Jason “JDN” Newitt. Unlike the previous two cases, this suit comes from a customer rather than someone with inside knowledge of how the company works.

Heads-up online poker player Lary “pokergirl z” Kennedy and former Full Tilt customer Greg Omotoy filed their complaint on October 1st and levied accusations of fraud, libel, slander, false advertising, and racketeering against the popular online poker room.

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Full Tilt has yet to issue a response to any of the charges issued in this most recent suit or in the pending litigation involving Newitt and Gowen. While the latter two are remaining mum about their cases against the company, Kennedy has taken her story to the Web and posting the complaint against Full Tilt on her official pokergirl website.

Financial Times.com - Full Tilt accused of flouting US internet gambling rules

Full Tilt Poker, one of the largest online poker sites still serving the US, was accused in a lawsuit on Thursday of being controlled from within the country, raising questions about the effectiveness of a 2006 ban on US internet gambling.

More broadly, the suit - which was filed by Lary Kennedy, a poker player and user of Full Tilt's service - draws attention to the immense variety of strategies being used as companies jockey for position in the event that online card games or sports betting will be legalised. Bills are currently pending in Congress.

TMZ.com - Poker Legends Sued for Robot Fraud

The biggest names in poker are being sued by two people who claim they were defrauded on an online poker site.

Lary Kennedy and Greg Omotoy claim they opened an account at fulltiltpoker.com and -- as luck would have it -- they amassed winnings of more than $80,000.

The famous poker defendants who own the site -- including Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey and Mike Matusow -- allegedly accused the plaintiffs of using an automated play functions called "robots" instead of playing the game themselves. Since using robots violates Full Tilt's rules, the site's owners confiscated more than $80,000.

There are other gripes as well in the lawsuit, filed today in L.A. County Superior Court, including an allegation that fulltilitpoker.com manipulates the game through the use of robots of its own so it becomes more a game of luck than skill which is outlawed in California.