POKER PLAYER FLIPS OUT! Overturns Three WSOP Circuit Tables

“Flipping the table” is only supposed to be a poker expression. On Sunday, it became reality as one of the competitors in a World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) tournament at Harrah’s Cherokee in North Carolina overturned three tables. Though the incident didn’t occur during active game play, it erased the chip stacks of at least two dozen players.

The meltdown took place during a break on Day 2 of the $1,700 buy-in Main Event with 65 players left.

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The following video, originally posted to X by World Poker Tour executive tournament director  Matt Savage, shows the chaos as a man with long brown hair flips his third and final table while security members tackle him to the ground and bind his arms.

Get off of me!” he yells. “I’m not hurting anyone!”

According to a player in attendance who spoke with Poker News, which broke the story, the suspect “shouted that God told him to do it” as he was escorted out of the room.

In another video posted to X by David Moses, the four-time circuit champ identifies the suspect by name and cracks, “Somebody’s banned for life.” (In case his information is incorrect, however, we’re not repeating it here.)

According to Poker News, tournament staff used surveillance footage to reconstruct the chip stacks, and play resumed after a long pause.

There are no other publicly documented cases of a player overturning a table at a WSOP event, much less three of them. So if all this disturbed person was after was making a little poker history, he succeeded.

The current Harrah’s Cherokee series began February 13 and is scheduled to end on Monday.