Popular YouTuber and Streamer Ludwig Ahgren says that ACR Poker didn’t pay him for his work. Along with streaming, Ludwig Ahgren is an avid poker player who has appeared in MrBeast’s poker night at Hustler Casino, which went on to become the most viewed live stream on YouTube with an impressive 100k live viewers.
Ahgren frequently does streaming, and in one of his recent streams, a fan asked him “Out of all the sponsors you’ve done, which one do you regret the most?”
Ahgren replied, “The sponsor that I regret the most is a poker company I used to work with called America’s Cardroom (ACR).” He clarified that he didn’t regret doing the sponsorship as it promotes gambling, but he regrets doing it as the company didn’t pay him.
“The reason I regret it is because that company [ACR] refused to pay me out,” Ahgren said, “and the money that I earned playing poker because I won a bunch of tournaments.”
“I would then gamble on their site, and it was so hard to pull the money out. And so if it’s hard for me, it means it’s hard for the other people who I was promoting it to play poker.”
“So I stopped working with them because I think they’re kind of a dogsh*t site,” Ahgren added. WPT Global Creative Director Thomas Keeling posted the clip on his X handle (@SrslySirius).
Ahgren later clarified some points about his video on X.
ACR Scammed Other Creators As Well
Ludwig Ahgren is one of many content creators who have been scammed by ACR. Keeling also shared another big streamer, PayMoneyWubby’s Reddit comment, where he spoke about not receiving money for his poker sponsorship. Wubby worked with ACR in 2022 and has promoted the site in his streams and played poker on the site.
Chess player Alexander Botez and GGPoker ambassador quoted Keeling’s video and revealed that ACR Poker hasn’t paid out dozens of creators for sponsored streams.
“ACR hasn’t paid out dozens of creators for sponsored streams from well over a year ago, myself included,” Botez said on X. “ACR contracted End Game Talent and blames them for ripping them off,” Botez revealed.
“While that complicates things, I spoke with ACR CEO [Phil Nagy] who promised to make things right but instead ghosted.” “They are not trustworthy,” Botez added.
Two-time bracelet winner and streamer Scott Ball was the president of End Game Talent. The agency is no longer active on social media, and as per PokerOrg, the agency paid a fine of $718,331 in June 2024 to another Talent agency Loaded, LLC for breach of contract.
Scott Ball has faced many allegations of fraud by several poker players, like Mike Matusow, Phil Hellmuth, and others.
ACR Poker and Scott Ball Accuse Each other
PokerOrg spoke to an ACR spokesperson who accused End Game Talent of the issues.
“ACR Poker engaged a third-party agency [End Game Talent] to brand marketing they purported to represent. Every streamer worked under their own talent agency. ACR paid the central agency, which was to pay the streamers through their respective talent agents.”
ACR paid ‘End Game Talent’, who was then obliged to pay to streamers’ talent agency. But as per recent allegations, it might not have happened.
Scott Ball, who was silent, posted on X, “This response appears to be a creative and transparent attempt at obfuscation and deflection, drafted by someone who seems to be unfamiliar with the facts of the matter.”
He is talking about ACR’s statements, which accused the third-party talent agency for mismanagement.
Ball further said he is ready to send materials including contracts and communications to a neutral third party to assess the issues.
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