Thomas Keeling, aka “SrslySirius,” clipped a video on X from Ludwig Ahgren, wherein the streaming mega star known as out ACR Poker for allegedly refusing to pay him out.
Ludwig is only a leisure poker participant, however he does have some public historical past taking part in playing cards. He appeared within the iconic “MrBeast Recreation” on Hustler On line casino Stay in Might 2022, which turned out to be probably the most watched poker livestream ever with over 100,000 concurrent viewers at some factors.
The Youtuber with over 6 million followers — 1.eight million on X — competed towards chess star and avid poker fanatic Alexandra Botez, poker legends Tom Dwan and Phil Hellmuth, YouTube sensation MrBeast, and Twitch icon Ninja in that historic sport. He additionally backed poker vlogger Ethan “Rampage” Yau in calling out a scammer two years in the past.
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YouTuber Trashes Poker Website
Ludwig, as he typically does, answered questions from a viewer throughout a current livestream. One follower requested him which sponsorship he is finished does he remorse having represented probably the most. And the reply had some relevance to the poker world.
“The sponsor that I remorse probably the most is a poker firm I used to work with known as American Cardroom [sic],” Ludwig answered. “I used to be solely sponsored to play poker. They did have a on line casino, however I by no means acquired sponsored to play the on line casino. Solely poker.”
Americas Cardroom, now ACR Poker, is an unlicensed and unregulated poker website working in the USA. The location has a prolonged historical past of accusations involving extreme bots. However Ludwig’s beef with the unregulated website has to do along with his problem in getting paid.
“The explanation I remorse it’s as a result of that firm refused to pay me out, and the cash that I earned taking part in poker, as a result of I gained a bunch of tournaments, I might then gamble on their website, and it was so f*****g exhausting to tug the cash out. And, so, if it is exhausting for me, it means it is exhausting for the opposite folks I used to be selling it to to play poker,” Ludwig continued.
“And so I ended working with them as a result of I feel they’re form of a canine**t website. That is my one most likely remorse for corporations,” he stated to wrap up his tackle the unregulated poker website.
Keeling, a co-owner of The Lodge Card Membership and revered video editor, additionally shared a snippet from one other streamer — PayMoneyWubby — who claims he had a sponsorship cope with ACR Poker in 2022, however did not obtain the cash and needed to take the matter up in civil courtroom.
Keeling expressed his disappointment with the US-facing poker website for allegedly refusing to pay out Ludwig, “one among my favourite content material creators.” The video editor wrote that the optics aren’t nice for the poker trade.
