iNinja Responds to Grievances of Formerly Sponsored Players

Issac Tucker, owner and operator of Minnesota-based iNinja Poker Tour, maintains that the tour will go on as planned in the wake of a rift with formerly sponsored players, forcing the tour and its management to restructure.

In a “collaborative report” in the form of a strongly worded and lengthy Google document, former sponsored iNinja Pros Aaron Johnson, Kou Vang and Vlad Revniaga made a number of charges against Tucker. They accused Tucker of failing to pay employees and contractors on time, having difficulty paying out prizes that players participating in iNinja Leagues won, using company funds for other means and failing to make good on a deal with Vang in which Vang was to take partial ownership of the company.

In response to the release from the former iNinja Pros, Tucker released a statement via Twitter.

“I would like to start off by apologizing to the community for the way this situation was handled, but more importantly for my mismanagement in operating iNinja Poker,” Tucker wrote. “I simply overextended myself with expenses from the very beginning. I’ve made good on my loans since I attained them, although a little later than expected which happens in life sometimes.”

Tucker said the company will be moving forward in a restructured manner. Vang, who was serving as the general manager of iNinja, has stepped away from the company in a day-to-day capacity but maintains the partial ownership he was promised in exchange for a $40,000 investment in April 2016. Vang confirmed to PokerNews this is the case.

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