False Reports Of Active Gunman In Las Vegas Sets Up Massive Chaos At World Series Of Poker

The World Series of Poker is coming to an end after WSOP Main Event Champion was crowned earlier, but that doesn’t mean the action is over!

On Saturday night, reports of an active gunman left multiple poker tables flipped, with chips everywhere as people scrambled for their lives.

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Chaos broke out in the WSOP poker room tonight as a report of a shooting echo’d down the Las Vegas strip (the report was found to be false as of now by Las Vegas police) pic.twitter.com/G5Gjqq3KxP

— Joey Ingram 🐉 (@Joeingram1) July 17, 2022

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Video of the chaotic scene pic.twitter.com/yOuf0kKyo7

— Joey Ingram 🐉 (@Joeingram1) July 17, 2022

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@VitalVegas
You’re not the only one that heard about it pic.twitter.com/QaU7F6gghS

— Taxi Guy (@JonMisterek) July 17, 2022

Multiple poker pros and casual players went to tweet their experience and how it all went down.

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We felt an earthquake. Everything was shaking at the WSOP. Very scary!! pic.twitter.com/BsU9ITaNQA

— Allyn Shulman (@ajaffrey) July 17, 2022

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Reports of shooting in Vegas from Bellagio, MGM and Paris. All false alarms so far. Very strange timing. Coordinated prank? pic.twitter.com/V66pnNL5to

— Sorel Mizzi (@sorelmizzi) July 17, 2022

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wtffff@WSOP pic.twitter.com/yUly8wTmzS

— Vanessa Kade (@VanessaKade) July 17, 2022

In the end, Vegas PD reports that it was “Reports of a shooting near the MGM tonight are unfounded. Initial reports are a glass door shattered causing a loud noise which startled people in the valet area.”

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Reports of a shooting near the MGM tonight are unfounded. Initial reports are a glass door shattered causing a loud noise which startled people in the valet area.

— LVMPD (@LVMPD) July 17, 2022

Unfortunately, many people on the street were seen running for their lives in panic as the initial reports of an active shooter was looming around MGM.

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There was absolute panic on the Strip last night, due to false reports of an ‘active shooter’ but, by all accounts, @LVMPD officers responded to the potential threat amazingly well. pic.twitter.com/Jxb8FpsARQ

— Las Vegas Locally 🌴 (@LasVegasLocally) July 17, 2022

Luckily, there was no active shooter. Many still remember the terror of the Las Vegas mass shooting in October of 2017 where 60 people were gunned down and left over 400 people injured.

No idea how the WSOP will figure out chip stacks after all the tables were flipped. Seems like a messy situation they will have on their hands.