Have Bad Poker Luck? Wait Until You See Kory Kilpatrick At WSOP

Some guys have all the luck. Some guys get all the fame. And some guys get an absolutely monster hand in poker, only to have their dreams shattered in front of millions. That's what happened at the $10,000 buy-in main event at the WSOP on Saturday. Kory Kilpatrick was victimized so brutally, we are thinking of starting a GoFundMe for him. Note, we are writing this so the laymen can understand it better. Don't think we are talking down to you.

It's relatively early in the main event and Kory, who has cashed in over $800,000 lifetime in World Series Of Poker events, was at the featured table. What happened next is the ultimate cooler, the most brutal bad beat, the most tragic of bad luck. It's bad enough to make you question playing it ever again.

Kory was dealt A-A, pocket aces, the nuts. This is the best starting hand in Poker. It is also one of the most dangerous. You go into the hand with confidence and maybe get blind to the danger that lurks.

Kory raised with this hand, obviously. Three others joined him in the hand. Q-J suited (setting up for a nice flush or straight flush possibility), 9-9 and 5-5. The sheer odds of three people at the table getting pocket pairs is crazy. We are talking 1.69% probability of this happening.

Here comes the flop. 9-A-9. "Oh my God!," exclaimed one of the PokerGO commentators. "That is one of the most vicious things I've seen in a while," said another. What has happened here is beyond cruelty. It's barbaric.

Kory believes he is set with the nuts. Three aces, two 9s... that's a Full House, aces full! That should be game set and match. SURE someone could have pocket 9's. While it may be true the likelihood of someone having that exact hand is 220 to 1, or 0.45%... it's not zero.

On the other hand (or in in this case), his competitor Robert Bogo was holding onto pocket 9s. Therefore he had quad nines - one of the best hands imaginable - and he checked the flop. He knew... he was made. Now it was time to extract as much value as possible. Kory "slow played" his aces (keep in mind he thinks he's made too). The player with pocket 5s bet. Bogo and Kilpatrick call. The turn, no help to anyone. Check all around.

The trap was set. The commentators and fans could only watch on in horror. Bogo, with "the nuts" (the best hand) makes his bet. 11,000 - half the pot. "Prep your eulogies," the commentator stated. Waiting for the inevitable shove all-in. He shoved, Bogo showed, and Kilpatrick stared at his cards like he saw a ghost.

Poker is a fun game, except for all the times it isn't fun. Kory took to Twitter to respond to the beating in just one simple statement: "Ok"... brutal. Maybe next time he should just rob the cage.

It's been a busy month when it comes to casino cage robberies in Las Vegas.

In the early morning hours on Wednesday, November 9th, a man walked up to the cage at Resorts World. He showed the cashier a note demanding money, and that's exactly what he got. The cashier put an undisclosed amount of cash into a bag, he headed outside, hopped into a taxi and left. The taxi driver was later found but it was determined he didn't know anything about the robbery.

Then just yesterday, Wednesday, November 16th, a man walked into Gold Coast and robbed the cage. No word on how much he stole, but Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department told 8 News Now the suspect in that case is "a black male adult wearing a white mask in black clothing."

The allure of staging a heist at a casino is too much for some to stand. Movies like Oceans Eleven romanticize the premise of pilfering millions from Las Vegas' richest businesses.

But in reality, it's among the craziest things someone could do. CityCenter (where Aria, Vdara and other properties are) alone has nearly 3,000 cameras. There isn't a corner of that property you could go undetected, and they aren't alone. Las Vegas is one of the most surveilled cities in the world!

Not all "heists" are illegal. The MIT Blackjack Team, who mastered the art of card counting, walked away with millions before the casinos realized what was going on. At the end of the day card counting isn't illegal, but casinos are well within their right to tell you your business is no longer welcome (and they did). Heck, even UFC President Dana White has been shown the door at several casinos for winning just a little bit too much.

But this isn't about the smart players. This is about the dumb criminals that got away with stupid money... but in nearly most cases, they didn't get away for long.

Not all heists happen at the cage. A convicted-but-freed murdered named Roberto Solis was, astoundingly, able to get a job working for the armored vehicle company Loomis. He'd drive around with untold fortunes in the back, refilling casino ATMs. Enter Roberto's boyfriend Heather Tallchief. She got in the truck and stole it from the Circus Circus lot in 1993, getting away with three million dollars. They left the country never to be seen again. At least Roberto did. Heather returned in 2005, turned herself in to authorities and supposedly only saw a sliver of the fortune. Roberto on the other hand has yet to be found.

This robbery had all the crazy twists and turns of a Hollywood movie. Back in 2010, a man parked his motorcycle at an entrance of the Bellagio. He walked in wearing his helmet, showed off his gun, and ran off with $1,500,000 worth of chips he swiped from a craps table. He got away on his bike. The guy was Anthony Michael Carleo, the son of a local judge! He'd stolen chips from the Suncoast just before that for $20,000. His lips got a little too loose and he was busted.

Another one of the rare "and he got away with it" stories. Back in 1992, a guy named Bill Brennan was in a trusted position at the now flattened Stardust. He was in charge of counting the money coming in at the sportsbook. He was looking at a cool half a million bucks. So what'd Bill do? He took those bills and just walked out. Poof. Vanished. He was on the FBI Most Wanted list for a while, but he never turned up, and when the Stardust vanished, so did his case.

It was an inside job. Back in 1992 (what was it with Stardust in 1992) a security guard tapped his kids to pretend to rob the place. They walked away with $150,000. Half a year later they were back at it, this time ransacking a security guard and walking away with a much larger purse: $1,100,000. They even used smoke bombs to disorient people and make their getaway. It was all fun and games until they were caught.

A former commando in the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, Jose Vigoa walked into the Bellagio in 2000 on a string of crimes. He walked in wearing bulletproof gear, got a bag and stuffed it with casino chips totaling $160,000. He was captured shortly after the theft.

There are many people you'd suspect for a casino robbery. A Las Vegas Metro officer is not one of them. But that's exactly what happened about a year ago. Officer Caleb Rogers stole over $70,000 from the Red Rock in November 2021 brandishing his department-issued gun. A couple months later he hit the Aliante, stealing $11,500. Then a month after that, a robbery at the sportsbook at Rio. That was one stop too many. He was apprehended and is in custody.

Reginald Johnson is not a bright man. He walked into Treasure Island in July 2000 and robbed them. He did it again in October of 2000, shooting at guards while he did. The total take was around $30,000. But that wasn't enough for Reginald. Nope. He decided to go for thirds. The same casino. Two months later. He got captured and pled guilty.