Updated on 23 Feb 26 by
Barry Carter
Poker Expert

A second ACR Ambassador RTA controversy

For the second time in a month, controversial online poker room ACR has seen one of their ambassadors brazenly play poker while GTO Wizard is open on their computer.

Less than a month ago Nacho Barbero shared an image of himself playing on the site with GTO Wizard open. Over the weekend an image of ACR Pro Ebony Kenney doing the same thing a year ago has resurfaced:

Sadly, the ACR PR department's response made the story much worse, which they often do. First of all, it took the better part of three days to get a response, then the response itself was very dismissive:

Kenney also waited three days to respond. She said that she had the software open to review a hand she had previously played, not to influence her real-time decisions. She also referenced the fact that she pulled a $150,000 bounty just this month on ACR. 

It is plausible that Kenney was reviewing a previous hand, just as Nacho's excuse that he was coaching students while playing was believable. However, both cases are still against the Terms and Conditions of ACR, and one would assume ambassadors are held to a higher standard. 

This is just one of many scandals at ACR, a site PokerStrategy.com has never promoted, with the most notable one being the $10 million bot ring and PR disaster that followed it. Needless to say, we encourage our members to avoid playing on the site. 

Barry Carter
Poker Expert

Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO. In 2025, he won the Global Poker Awards for Best Book and Twitter Personality of the Year.