Former European Poker Tour Grand Final champion, Glen Chorny, is suing former poker player and businessman, Philippe Rouas, after investing a million dollars in a social media experiment that never took off.

It was Marcus Fabius Quintilius who said there is ‘nothing more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune’ and that seems to be the case for the former poker player Glen Chorny.

In 2008, Chorny won one of the largest prize pools in the history of the European Poker Tour (EPT) when he defeated 842 players to capture the €2m first prize in the Grand Final in Monte Carlo.

Poker player and businessman Philippe Rouas noticed Chorny’s success. Rouas was in the process of creating Poker World Society, a sort of Facebook for poker players, and it seems he convinced Chorny to part with a seven-figure sum in return for a 10% stake in the business.