Poker professional Scott Ball has sued ACR Poker and firm CEO Phil Nagy alleging breach of contract after his Finish Sport Expertise company was contracted by the web poker web site to rent streamers to signify the model. The streamers, together with Twitch star Ludwig Ahgren and chess streamer Alexandra Botez, have alleged that they have been by no means paid.
Ball additionally sued Worldwide Processing Companies and Foozle Ventures, a digital advertising firm. Ball, a two-time WSOP bracelet winner, revealed that his firm had labored with ACR for a number of years with multi-million greenback contracts organized throughout that point.
Nevertheless, Ball famous that every one funds stopped in June 2023, together with 9 invoices for $3.3 million for June 2023 to April 2024. The swimsuit additionally contains claims of libel and seeks $30 million in damages.
“Defendant printed false and defamatory statements about Plaintiffs, together with however not restricted to public statements attributing fee failures to Plaintiffs’ alleged failure to ‘observe by means of on their commitments’ and claiming Plaintiffs ‘dropped the ball,’” the lawsuit famous.
ACR Denies Allegations
Nagy has denied the allegations and stated his firm lived as much as their finish of the contract. Earlier this 12 months, Nagy appeared on Matt Berkey’s Solely Associates podcast episode to disclaim that Finish Sport had not been paid.
“ACR Poker engaged a third-party company to rearrange model advertising by streamers they presupposed to signify,” an announcement from ACR famous. “Each streamer labored underneath their very own expertise company. ACR paid the central company, which was to pay the streamers by means of their respective expertise brokers. That association sadly ended with severe disputes about whether or not the central company stiffed or underpaid the assorted expertise companies or their particular person streamer purchasers.”
“ACR stands by our optimistic observe file with sponsored gamers, advertising campaigns, and streamers’ expertise companies. The corporate that reportedly did not pay expertise companies is believed to have been sued by the streamers’ expertise companies.”
Ball, who’s the previous head of poker on Twitch, has confronted criticism for his dealings from different professionals up to now together with Doug Polk, Markus Gonsalves, and Mike Matusow. Poker.org additionally reported that the Loaded LLC expertise company has a default judgment from June towards Finish Sport for greater than $700,000 attributable to breach of contract.
