Aram Oganyan Says ACR Banned Him After $500K Win

How to Quickly Lose and Win Back $500,000

Armenian-American high-stakes pro Aram Oganyan has taken to the social media site X to share a story that many of his high-stakes pros probably fear happening to them.

According to Oganyan’s X post, he won $500,000 on the Winning Poker Network’s site ACR Poker in a single day, and “had a friend create another acr account to withdraw my money faster”. However, the move backfired, as his account with the $500K was banned for “soft multi accounting,” still according to Oganyan himself.

It was certainly a risky move, and one that perhaps someone of Oganyan’s experience should have avoided. However, if his friend in question did not register for any tournament or play any cash game hands, then the multiaccounting “charge” may be too harsh. 

Let me set the record straight here boys and grils. I am banned from ACR. i won 500k in a day and had a friend create another acr account to withdraw my money faster. they banned me for "soft multi accounting". Like biggie smalls said "More Money More Problems!"

— Aram Oganyan (@Smackems818) May 4, 2026

The tweet had the term “soft multi accounting” in quotation marks, which indicates that it is directly taken from the notification Oganyan got about his ban—which, in turn, suggests he really did not attempt to gain any advantages against his opponents at the table by accessing more than one account on the same site.

Winning Poker Network CEO Phil Nagy replied to the post by Oganyan, saying “You could have just sent an e-mail, we are human. DM me”. The original poster has seen Nagy’s reply, and informed him in public that he had reached out to him on WhatsApp.

And, thankfully, it seems the issue has been resolved.

Oganyan posted on X on May 9th that his account “bigsoowoop” has been unbanned on ACR. In fact, he has already shared that he had won two tickets to a $10,000 buy-in GGMIllion$ tournament via a $1,050 satellite.

just won 2 10k sat seats to gg 10k in same sat lol pic.twitter.com/GUqyqkh6i4

— Aram Oganyan (@Smackems818) May 10, 2026

Despite this case’s fortunate outcome, we recommend that players reach out to their poker rooms’ support directly or their affiliates about withdrawal issues instead of having a friend create a new account.

Who is Aram Oganyan?

Aram Oganyan is a professional poker player. He was born in Armenia in 1988, but relocated to California in the United States as an adult—California has a large ethnic Armenian population.

He has $8.8 million in lifetime live tournament cashes on his Hendon profile, with the first dating back to 2010. However, he did not start getting consistent attention in poker media until 2022, when he started regularly cashing in WSOP and WPT events. He especially excelled at the 2022 WSOP Online series, making it into the money in nine different events, including the Main Event.

His largest career cash is for $1.766 million, which he got for coming in second at a $100,000 buy-in high roller at the 2025 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, Nevada. He lost the heads-up battle for the bracelet to the well-known Portuguese pro Joao “Naza114” Viera.