It isn’t enough that participants in private poker games have to worry about being robbed by bandits or other players.

Now they have to worry about cops ripping them off!

A Delaware police officer who participated in a high-stakes poker game at a country club last month has now been charged with robbing the game.

According to media reports, State Police trooper Hyun-Jin Kim, 27, of Dover, Delaware, USA, was arrested Monday and charged with 11 criminal counts, including first-degree robbery, conspiracy, possession of a firearm during a felony, wearing a disguise during the commission of a felony and offensive touching.

A three-year veteran of the Delaware State Police, Kim was suspended from the police force and is being held at Sussex Correctional Institute in lieu of $240,000 bail, the reports said.

“Mr. Kim is not indicative of the caliber of troopers we have serving the citizens of this state,” said State Police superintendent Col. Thomas MacLeish.

“Mr. Kim is an aberration to the men and women of this division.”

According to media reports, three masked men armed with handguns and a shotgun burst into the clubhouse at the Wild Quail Golf and Country Club in the tiny town of Wyoming, Delaware, on the morning of February 22 and confronted a dozen people, including Kim, who were playing high-stakes poker.

The poker players were then ordered to lie on the ground, where they were tied up and had their faces covered with red pillowcases, as the bandits stole about $1,000 in cash plus some credit cards, cell phones, house keys and car keys, the reports said.

Two of the robbery victims were assaulted and received minor injuries, the reports said.

After the robbery, the bandits fled in a car, the reports said.

Kim left the scene before the arrival of police, who subsequently learned from another player that Kim was involved in the game and was among the victims, media reports said.

Police conducted an investigation and learned that the red pillowcases used to cover the victims’ faces came from a local Wal-Mart, and that store security tapes showed two people, one of whom was Kim, buying pillowcases on the day of the poker game robbery, the reports said.

A search of Kim’s home and car then resulted in the seizure of evidence indicating his involvement in the robbery, the reports said.

The evidence included several of the stolen keys, plus a Wal-Mart cash register receipt for pillowcases, the reports said.

(E-mail Tom Somach at tomsomach@yahoo.com.)