Poker professional Scott Ball has sued ACR Poker and firm CEO Phil Nagy alleging breach of contract after his End Game Talent company was contracted by the web poker website to rent streamers to characterize the model. The streamers, together with Twitch star Ludwig Ahgren and chess streamer Alexandra Botez, have alleged that they had been by no means paid.
Ball additionally sued International Processing Services 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.
However, Ball famous that each one funds stopped in June 2023, together with 9 invoices for $3.3 million for June 2023 to April 2024. The swimsuit additionally consists of claims of libel and seeks $30 million in damages.
“Defendant published false and defamatory statements about Plaintiffs, including but not limited to public statements attributing payment failures to Plaintiffs’ alleged failure to ‘follow through on their commitments’ and claiming Plaintiffs ‘dropped the ball,’” the lawsuit famous.
ACR Denies Allegations
Nagy has denied the allegations and mentioned his firm lived as much as their finish of the contract. Earlier this yr, Nagy appeared on Matt Berkey’s Only Friends podcast episode to disclaim that End Game had not been paid.
“ACR Poker engaged a third-party agency to arrange brand marketing by streamers they purported to represent,” a statement from ACR famous. “Every streamer worked under their own talent agency. ACR paid the central agency, which was to pay the streamers through their respective talent agents. That arrangement unfortunately ended with serious disputes about whether the central agency stiffed or underpaid the various talent agencies or their individual streamer clients.”
“ACR stands by our positive track record with sponsored players, marketing campaigns, and streamers’ talent agencies. The company that reportedly failed to pay talent agencies is believed to have been sued by the streamers’ talent agencies.”
Ball, who’s the previous head of poker on Twitch, has confronted criticism for his dealings from different professionals prior 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 End Game for greater than $700,000 on account of breach of contract.
