Well, this whole thing is getting weird.
As dmndkutr posted, Chris Moneymaker posted a strange challenge to people, offering $100k (of ACR's money) to anyone who can create a bot to play on there, and get 5,000 hands through without getting caught. He claimed anyone successfully doing so would also get a "job at WPN (the ACR network)".
Then... the post vanished.
It was replaced by a new one, this time with Ebony Kenney of all people, speaking with Chris about the matter, and basically making the identical offer.
https://twitter.com/ACR_POKER/status/1743104172075979210
Someone saved the original Chris-only version:
https://streamable.com/jdqypm
There are all kinds of bizarre things about this.
First off, as I said in my tweet, it was a strange choice to replace Chris' rather straightforward video with the conversational one featuring Ebony. While Ebony Kenney might have some positives as a brand ambassador, sincerity and trustworthiness are NOT what she's known for. In fact, it's quite the opposite.
In fact, as recently as 2022, Ebony Kenney made allegations that Daniel Negreanu had sexually harassed her at the table (with his eyes, lol) so badly that she couldn't wait to bust out of a $10k event. However, Daniel countered with a video showing that in 2014, Ebony said in an interview that he was her favorite poker player, and that he had a "great energy" to him! LOL! So somehow in 2014 he was her favorite player and had a great energy, yet many years later she was retroactively super-offended by his behavior in 2008. Riiiiiiiight.
So why pick Ebony to co-deliver this controversial offer about botting, rather than just Chris himself, who is generally liked and trusted? No idea.
But the offer itself is also strange. Chris is not making this offer on his own dime, nor is he claiming it's his idea. Rather, he's just delivering a message from ACR management, presumably Phil Nagy.
So they're offering people the free, unrestricted opportunity to cheat with bots, with zero consequence if caught? And if not caught, they get $100k for cheating? What?!
Oh, and then there's also the problem that someone running a successful, multimillion dollar bot ring isn't going to give away their secrets for $100k.
As you might imagine, this offer is NOT going over well.
Also, there are logistical issues. How do you prove you were running a bot for all 5,000 hands? Do you need video of all 5,000 hands being played, and the bot playing it for you? They don't specify this.
ACR is really screwing up their PR lately. This is even worse than
Phil Nagy's disasterous Christmas poem, following site failures.