A man has claimed God told him to go berserk at the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Main Event at Harrah’s Cherokee in North Carolina on Sunday.
According to media reports on Monday, the unnamed man flipped over three poker tables at the main $1,700 buy-in event in a field down to 65 players. A player at the event said the man was yelling that God told him to do it.
Las Vegas Locally posted a video to X showing the incident:
Multiple WSOPC winner David Moses posited his thoughts to X on how to keep the event going.
One option would be to “reconstruct stacks such that … everyone agrees that’s ballpark what they had AND the cameras confirm ballpark what they had.” Moses’ other suggestion was that the 65 entrants still in play “agree to an even chop.”
World Poker Tour Executive Tournament Director Matt Savage, however, said fixing the chaos would be a “long arduous process [requiring players’] honesty, patience, and assistance.” He described the incident as a “tournament directors biggest nightmare.”