Man Flips Three Poker Tables in Fit of Rage at WSOP Circuit Event

The World Sequence of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Essential Occasion at Harrah’s Cherokee erupted into chaos on Sunday as a person flipped over three poker tables in an obvious match of rage.

The incident happened on Day 2 of the $1,700 buy-in Essential Occasion with 65 gamers left. A video posted to X by four-time Circuit ring winner David Moses exhibits a number of tables overturned contained in the Harrah’s ballroom with gamers wanting on in disbelief.

“Someone’s banned for all times,” Moses says within the video.

The person has not but been recognized, regardless of hypothesis within the above video and on social media.

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Safety escorted the person out of the match space. One participant on the occasion mentioned the person was shouting that god informed him to do it, in response to a participant in attendance who spoke with PokerNews.

The Essential Occasion went on an prolonged pause whereas workers reacted to the state of affairs. Moses wrote on X that the 2 eventualities as he noticed them can be to “reconstruct stacks such that … everybody agrees that is ballpark what that they had AND the cameras verify ballpark what that they had” or the 65 participant remaining gamers conform to a fair chop.

Further video shared by World Poker Tour (WPT) Government Event Director Matt Savage exhibits a participant with lengthy darkish hair lifting and flipping a desk earlier than being held on the bottom by a number of gamers.

“Get off of me! I am not hurting anybody!” the person yells.

Savage referred to as the incident a “match administrators greatest nightmare” and a “lengthy arduous course of” requiring participant’s “honesty, persistence, and help.”

Harrah’s Cherokee is likely one of the high WSOP Circuit locations. The present 18-ring sequence started Feb. 13 and runs via Feb. 24 in Cherokee, North Carolina.

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Connor Richards is an Editor & Reside Reporter for PokerNews and host of the Life Exterior Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for 2 World Poker Awards for his writing.