Mafia, poker fraud and illegal gambling. The athletes have been charged.

[Vallet]

A member of the NBA Hall of Fame, current coach Chauncey Billups is among those charged in an illegal poker operation tied to the Mafia. Other athletes have received equally serious charges. The profits from the alleged poker scheme ran up to $7 million.
We often think about bots, but the age of technology generates a lot of things. Sports betting, wire fraud conspiracy, shuffling machines, X-ray technology to read cards facing down on the table.

NBA's Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier and others arrested by the FBI in a gambling-related investigation

The NBA's Terry Rozier, Miami Heat guard and Chauncey Billups, Portland Trail Blazers coach, were among those arrested by the FBI as a result of investigations of illegal gambling that spanned 11 states and were said to have mafia ties. Rozier was arrested in Orlando and is expected to appear in...

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[hardongear]

Why I don't take sports betting seriously(no matter the sport) and don't make many bets or bet much $$$ when I do bet.

Cheers!!!

 

[Brigistul]

The world has become so miserable that nothing surprises you anymore! We end up getting used to the unusual — just like lies become believable after being repeated many times!"

 

[MK_]

l want to see this movie!, it seriously sounds like an awesome movie just waiting to be made,

I mean mobsters and pro players robbing rich guys for even more money in private games

with x ray vision come on..... make this movie now!

 

[GrannySmit77]

l want to see this movie!, it seriously sounds like an awesome movie just waiting to be made,

I mean mobsters and pro players robbing rich guys for even more money in private games

with x ray vision come on..... make this movie now!

You're so funny.

 

[Poker Orifice]

l want to see this movie!, it seriously sounds like an awesome movie just waiting to be made,

I mean mobsters and pro players robbing rich guys for even more money in private games

with x ray vision come on..... make this movie now!

Might start another poker boom? I'd go see it.

 

[watup]

Oh those poor guys, why they dont try to cheat at slots

 

[Poker Orifice]

 

[NKGB13]

A member of the NBA Hall of Fame, current coach Chauncey Billups is among those charged in an illegal poker operation tied to the Mafia. Other athletes have received equally serious charges. The profits from the alleged poker scheme ran up to $7 million.
We often think about bots, but the age of technology generates a lot of things. Sports betting, wire fraud conspiracy, shuffling machines, X-ray technology to read cards facing down on the table.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/miami-heat-terry-rozier-charged-nba-betting/story?id=126789368

and ppl tought Molly Bloom's scheme were the worst hehehehe..

 

[monte carlo 01]

Only a dummy doesn't know that most high stakes private games are rigged as fack

 

[Theultimate]

A member of the NBA Hall of Fame, current coach Chauncey Billups is among those charged in an illegal poker operation tied to the Mafia. Other athletes have received equally serious charges. The profits from the alleged poker scheme ran up to $7 million.
We often think about bots, but the age of technology generates a lot of things. Sports betting, wire fraud conspiracy, shuffling machines, X-ray technology to read cards facing down on the

This doesn't look good at all for both Chauncey Billups and Terry Rosier.this puts the integrity of the game in question and also let you think twice about whether sports betting is rigged or not

 

[Magallaneroy]

In sport and gambling there are always people looking to earn illegal money, is extremely difficult to eliminate that, but that should be the goal.

 

[Poison91]

l want to see this movie!, it seriously sounds like an awesome movie just waiting to be made,

I mean mobsters and pro players robbing rich guys for even more money in private games

with x ray vision come on..... make this movie now!

I can't say anything about the NBA because I don't know the subject, but it is known that there is a mafia in the sport with the issue of sports betting, leading teams that lose to the last in the table by a landslide, not even the referee's time additions for each period coincide, how can it be that they add 1 minute after a player was lying on the ground for 3 minutes in addition to many offsides? and I can continue naming more cases MK, it is enough for a guy to put a lot of money on one or two players knowing that he will have a lot of profit

 

[Poison91]

I can't say anything about the NBA because I don't know the subject, but it is known that there is a mafia in the sport with the issue of sports betting, leading teams that lose to the last in the table by a landslide, not even the referee's time additions for each period coincide, how can it be that they add 1 minute after a player was lying on the ground for 3 minutes in addition to many offsides? and I can continue naming more cases MK, it is enough for a guy to put a lot of money on one or two players knowing that he will have a lot of profit

Which disgusts me, angers me, hates me because for us Argentinians, football is not a simple sport. For us, our club identifies us and we do not profit from the passion of the people, from the feelings of the people.

 

[bowserdon]

Thats why I dont play high stake games.People do cheat

 

[Sullivanryn88]

to think i used to think chauncey billups was one of the stand up guys in the nba when the pistons were good, and to throw all his accomplishments away for money and cheating, what a shame. he probably didnt have a good financial advisor and clearly needed a way to cheat and try to recover his financial mistakes but now look where that got him...fools!

 

[Poker Orifice]

Thats why I dont play high stake games.People do cheat

Really? I don't because I'm not good enough at the game. I wouldn't even regularly play at an avg. buyin of $50... because I can't beat those games. (maybe one day)

 

[Poker Orifice]

Only a dummy doesn't know that most high stakes private games are rigged as fack

Call me a dummy then. I actually don't know of many high stakes games running.

 

[pokerV]

Wild story 😳 — seeing a Hall of Famer like Chauncey Billups tied to a $7M illegal poker ring with Mafia connections is next-level. When operations involve athletes, rigged machines, and even X-ray card tech 🃏🔍, it shows cheating has gotten way more sophisticated than just bots.

 

[pokerV]

This case is a reminder that the biggest threats to poker aren’t only online 🤖 — sometimes it’s full-on criminal networks using advanced tools and insider access. When major athletes get caught up in it, you know it was serious 💰⚠️. Will be interesting to see how deep this investigation goes.

 

[Vallet]

This case is a reminder that the biggest threats to poker aren’t only online 🤖 — sometimes it’s full-on criminal networks using advanced tools and insider access. When major athletes get caught up in it, you know it was serious 💰⚠️. Will be interesting to see how deep this investigation goes.

Criminal networks are so deep, we see only the tip of the iceberg. It's unthinkable that such a successful athlete as Chauncey Billups became involved in serious proceedings under investigation. Bots are nothing compared to similar frauds. At the moment, popular athletes have turned to a lawyer who already has experience in such cases.

 

[RENEY444]

Surprise, surprise . Not .

 

[pokerV]

Criminal networks are so deep, we see only the tip of the iceberg. It's unthinkable that such a successful athlete as Chauncey Billups became involved in serious proceedings under investigation. Bots are nothing compared to similar frauds. At the moment, popular athletes have turned to a lawyer who already has experience in such cases.

Haha, yeah — criminal networks aren’t just bots with attitude, apparently they have NBA “celebs” to lure people into poker rooms like it’s a celebrity meet-and-greet. According to prosecutors, Billups was one of the so-called “Face Cards” in a rigged game run by mafia families, using weird tech like altered shuffling machines, X-ray tables, and contact lenses to cheat. (See the DOJ’s indictment: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/p...ociates-organized-crime-families-and-national) His lawyer, of course, says he’d never risk his Hall of Fame rep just to help a card game scam — “he would not jeopardize … his freedom,” he said in a statement.