22 Nov 2024 Poker players take a big risk when they earn their living playing in just one poker club. What if the club gets shut down or they get in the blacklist? That's not even the worst part. This is the insane poker story of Chauncey Monk or how unlucky a poker player can actually get. Insane Poker Story About Chauncey Monk Chauncey Monk is a professional poker player who lives in South Florida. He was robbed at gunpoint and then banned for being robbed. Chauncey Monk was a regular of Omaha Hi-Lo at mid stakes and played at the Palm Beach Kennel Club like it was his day job. He spent 60 hours a week there. The club itself is considered one of the biggest in Florida, so we are talking of a popular big facility, not just some saloon. It all started in December of 2015 when Monk was returning from the bathroom of the Palm Beach Kennel Club and accidentally dropped $13,000. When he discovered it, he rushed back, but the money was long gone. Someone had picked up the money and left the building fast. Chauncey asked the manager and the security service of the club for help, but they couldn't identify the man's face and couldn't read his car's number plate. Chauncey was infuriated with the cameras and it really blew his mind that a million-dollar-a-month business did not have cameras that could read license plates in the parking lot. And more to that, they told him since the money was picked up from the floor, it was not a theft. Victim of a Robbery Weeks later, Chauncey gets a phone call from the club. The dealer of Kennel Club, one of Chauncey's acquaintances, says that the guy who got Monk's money is in the club. The dealer tells Chauncey he does not want to get involved for the fact that he knows the guy and he does not want to have his customer know that he was involved in him getting caught. After that Monk rushed to the club, which was just 10 minutes away from his place, but as he came there, the guy was already long gone. Our hero turned to the floor manager and told about the situation, but got no help. Few weeks later, Chauncey was playing his routine session at Omaha at Blinds 510 with $20 straddle. He had $13,000 after he finished it and decided to walk along to his car at the parking lot, 50 meters away from the entrance. Suddenly, a man with a gun attacked Monk and ordered to drop the money to the ground. Chauncey did that and rushed back to the entrance where security was. The security did not see anything out there. Then there was the police and all the needed procedures. Chauncey came back to the club the next day and the manager asked him to not talk about the accident, promising that they'll find the bad guy and will return Chauncey's his money. But news spreads fast. Monk lives in one building with other professional poker players, so the robbery was known to all by the regulars. Monk also had a backer who took action in PLO 8 games and he had to let him know what happened. So obviously, people at the Kennel also found out. Managers insisted on one important detail. They offered Chauncey an escort, which he refused. It's all lies according to Monk. I mean, what place offers escorts for 2-5 games? Banned from the Club Few days later, when every dog in the neighborhood knew about the robbery, Chauncey comes to his job again and he's politely told he's on the blacklist. As it turned out later, the dealer whom Monk called was also fired as well as the floor manager who worked that night. The former worked in the club for almost 13 years before he was fired. Monk had conversations with the lawyer of the Kennel club in hopes that he could get everything solved. Monk even offered to sign a non-disclosure agreement so he would be allowed to play, but that also got rejected. Later, the police working the robbery case told our hero that Kennel club had confiscated some of the chips from the robbery. Apparently, whoever robbed Monk tried to send in people to cash in the chips which the Kennel club was holding on to. The club also denied Monk access to all those chips. Monk was pretty depressed, angry and sad, not to mention having taken a huge financial loss. Chauncey needed to play at Palm Beach Kennel Club because of Omaha because other facilities did not get enough players in this game. As the regulars said, the Omaha games at the club were sweet indeed. Shockingly, even the public's reaction to Chauncey's story was mostly negative. He was accused of being a wimp for asking his way back to where nobody cares for him. They also began to call the robbery staged and the action casino management took was standard and fully justified. Since the incident, a friend of Chauncey also got a life ban for talking about what happened to Monk at the tables. Aside from that, everyone was still terrified to say or mention what happened in fear of getting banned. The Kennel club did give Chauncey the money in his security box after he returned the keys to the lawyer's office. Monk tried multiple times to contact the owner of the room, but with no success. This article was written by Dennis «Dennis_Stets» based on a video from the Poker Bounty channel.
