Poker’s all-time highest tournament earner Bryn Kenney has filed a lawsuit in a Nevada court against GGPoker’s parent company, NSUS Group Inc., over an ownership stake dispute.
The former GGPoker ambassador filed the civil suit in the Clark County District Court in August, to which GG’s top boss Mansoo “Michael” Kim filed a month later to have it all dismissed, although both the lawsuit and the request to dismiss are both still pending.
Kenney, who became the first to crack $90 million in The Hendon Mob live tournament cashes this summer, was an early believer in GGPoker, which is now the biggest online poker site in the world. But when he began playing on and promoting the site in 2018, it was in its infancy stages, long before Daniel Negreanu became the face of the brand.
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The lawsuit states that Kim and NSUS “made deliberate misrepresentations to Plaintiff Kenney to induce Mr. Kenney to stake his reputation, personal finances, and years of labor to transform GGPoker from a failing, distrusted platform into the most recognized online poker room in the world. Having obtained benefit of Mr. Kenney’s extraordinary contributions, Defendants then methodically dishonored every material promise they made to him.”
Those promises made in 2018, according to the Plaintiff, were “weekly payments on revenue-based commissions” on players Kenney recruited to the poker site, along with a 5% equity interest in GGPoker. All this, per the lawsuit, was in exchange for Kenney serving as a site ambassador, head of game management, and the primary recruiter of players and agents to the platform.
Kenney, from 2018 to 2025, argues that he recruited “thousands of players” to GGPoker and served as the poker site’s “de facto head of game management, building, from scratch, every high roller tournament on the platform, persuading Defendant Kim against business decisions that would have made GGPoker’s eventual ascent to number one in the world impossible.”
The court filing states that Kim and NSUS, despite all the players Kenney brought to GGPoker, “methodically and deliberately dishonored their obligations.” Kenney, who faced online poker cheating allegations in 2022, says the Defendants reclassified the players and agents he recruited, and effectively eliminated the commissions he believes he earned.
Kenney claims not receiving the ownership stake and the elimination of commissions he felt he deserved has cost him tens of millons of dollars.
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Kenney is seeking compensation over a breach of contract and fraud from Kim and NSUS, the company that purchased the WSOP from Caesars Entertainment for $500 million in 2024. But Kim has filed to have the claim of fraud against him dismissed with prejudice.
Kim, in a Sept. 23 court filing, wrote “Kenney’s fraud theory rests on an undated, unattributed assurance that his own Complaint shows the entire poker community, himself included, disbelieved.” The document continued saying that Kenney’s lawsuit “improperly lumps Kim with parties who are alleged to have said nothing.”
The next court hearing is scheduled for Nov. 12. Kenney has $90.8 million in live tournament cashes, most in history and $11 million more than his nearest competitor, Stephen Chidwick.