In February 2021, Vlogger Matt Vaughn won the $535 Buy-in - $1 Million GTD Tournament on Ignition.

However, he had previously been banned in 2017.

In 2017 he was living/playing out of Maryland, a banned state from Ignition. He won a tournament for $16k and when they were verifying his info upon payout, they notified him they were going to pay him the $16k, but close his account as he was playing from a banned state in their TOS.

He moved to Vegas within the last year, (Nevada is also a banned state) but found other pros were playing from friends accounts that were based from allowed states.

----You are allowed to play on Ignition from Nevada if you're just visiting, however if you are a resident of the state, you are technically not allowed.

Playing from someone's account on Ignition isn't such a big deal in the community as terms of "multi-accounting" because of the anonymous tables. It's not the same as playing on like PokerStars or ACR under the screen name of some fish.


Where Matt Vaughn went wrong, HE LIVE STREAMED HIM PLAYING/WINNING THE TOURNAMENT ON TWITCH!!!!!

How stupid can you be?

As his friend was going through the verification process to pay out the $136k, they found out that Matt Vaughn was actually playing the event, and not the friend.

They refused to payout, and everyone else in the tournament moved up 1 spot (2nd got 1st, 3rd got 2nd)

It's a heartbreaking situation, but it's hard to feel bad for the guy as he live streamed himself breaking their absolutely clear TOS.