The question is more detailed. Did Bryn Kenney cheat or behave unethically in the world of online poker via multi-accounting, ghosting, abusing his positing as a backer, forcing a particular lifestyle on his staked players, and/or establishing a way to see players’ cards at GGPoker?
The many facets of that question speak to the complicated nature of the allegations against Kenney. Some allegations have bubbled in high-stakes poker circles for many years, while many in the poker community only became aware of them this year.
After several interviews and numerous podcasts – one of each in the news last week – the answer is very clear.
We don’t know.
The public accusations against Bryn Kenney started in April 2022. The Zamani Stories
While the poker community was talking more openly than ever about Ali Imsirovic and Jake Schindler cheating and/or playing unethically, Martin Zamani (brother of poker pro Ben Zamani) decided to take another one to the public. He took to Twitter to accuse Bryn Kenney of unethical behavior via various forms of cheating in online poker.
The tweet thread was sloppy and sometimes difficult to follow. Since we are in the midst of calling out cheaters @BrynKenney and all his horses are basically forced to collude on GG esp in satties. “ do what’s best for the team” he wouldn’t let me play GG 5k plo events on my account but on party I could play 10Ks if said horse ghost was. — Martin Zamani (@martin_zamani) April 21, 2022 Doug Polk jumped in with a podcast episode to interview Zamani. It consisted of more than an hour of accusations against Kenney, sometimes rambling but firmly focused on Kenney. There were a few key takeaway notes. First, it’s important to note that Zamani’s original poker backer was Dennis Blieden . That name may sound familiar because he was sentenced to years in prison in 2021 for embezzling $22M from a company for which he worked and tried to use it to be a big-time poker player and staker. Blieden had a tab running with Kenney that he obviously couldn’t pay, so Kenney offered […]
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