The lawsuit that began with a "friendly" heads-up battle for millions of dollars in the middle of the night on May 27, 2017 between King's Casino owner Leon Tsoukernik and Australian high-stakes poker player Matt Kirk has taken some interesting turns, with the ARIA Resort and Casino being implicated in the latest counterclaim from Tsoukernik.
The heads-up game took place primarily in the early morning hours of May 27, a day before the start of the ARIA Super High Roller Bowl, which would be followed by the annual World Series of Poker starting May 31.