Scott Ball is continuing to apply public pressure to ACR Poker head Phil Nagy as part of a lawsuit Ball filed against Nagy, ACR, and two ACR-related business entities in late December.
The lawsuit, still in its initial stages, involves more than $30 million in fees promised to online influencers to promote ACR Poker on social media, using Ball's agency business, End Game Talent, LLC, as a US-based payment intermediary. The vast majority of those fees were never transferred to Ball's agency for distribution to the influencers who performed the promotional work, leaving Ball and his agency legally responsible, according to the lawsuit.
Ball states he has attempted to serve legal notice on Nagy, ACR, and the other business entities, but all of the defendants are located outside the United States, complicating the process. Ball has declared that he will remain persistent in attempting to serve notice of the lawsuit, however, and put out a post on X to that effect this week.
Nagy silence could shift public opinion
When news of the non-payment scandal first broke, Nagy appeared on an August 2024 episode of the Only Friends podcast declaring his innocence. ACR Poker followed Nagy's podcast appearance by issuing a statement assigning blame for the nonpayment to a "third-party agency." YouTuber content streamers Ludwig Ahgren and Alexandra Botez are among the influencers believed to have been stiffed amid the disputed promotional project.
Since Ball filed his action, however, Nagy and ACR Poker have remained silent. Irrespective of who's telling the truth, it's possible that a continued silence might slowly shift public opinion in Ball's favor.
Ball also claimed the offensive by appending specific contract and financial documents to his complaint, whereas Nagy has not believed to have offered any hard evidence, a situation very much complicated by ACR's status as a grey-market site. Whether other documents exist that support Nagy's version of events is, at this point, unknown.
