Federal prosecutors said mobsters used elaborate tech and Portland Trailblazer coach Chauncey Billups to lure wealthy people to rigged poker games.

NYC mafiosos and NBA stars used a combination of high-tech contraptions and old-school gambling tricks to swindle hapless high-rollers out of $7 million in a sprawling backroom poker scheme, ...

WIRED recently demonstrated how to cheat at poker by hacking the Deckmate 2 card shufflers used in casinos. The mob was allegedly using the same trick to fleece victims for millions.

Authorities say an indicted poker cheating ring involving pro sports figures and the mafia used a series of high-tech tactics in the scam. They included shuffling machines that could determine ...

Card-reading contact lenses, X-ray poker tables, trays of poker chips that read cards, hacked shuffling machines that predict hands. The technology alleged to have been used to execute a multistate, ...

Chauncey Billups is allegedly a featured player in an underground poker ring in which he and former NBA player Damon Jones are accused of colluding with three Mafia families to lure players to illegal ...

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NBA stars, mobsters, and marks with fat wallets are all part of an alleged ring of rigged poker games. Here’s how these games ...

Cutting edge technology helped an illegal gambling ring steal millions from victims in underground poker games tied to the New York mafia, law enforcement officials said. As early as 2019, the ...

Following the announcement of a national gambling investigation, U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella, Jr. broke down how professional athletes were allegedly used to lure people into a fixed poker game ...

“Operation Royal Flush” could still deal the NFL a bad hand. On Saturday, the New York Post published an article that tells the tale of an unnamed gambler who contends he was the victim of a rigged ...

A purported victim of a Texas jeweler linked to the NBA cheating ring says he and his poker buddies were scammed out of nearly $1 million in a single night — but that the fraudsters used an ex-NFL ...