Sal Piacente walks through how cameras, earpieces, and apps can be used to cheat in card games

The townhouse racked up more than three dozen complaints from neighbors during its time as an alleged illegal casino.

Authorities say an indicted poker cheating ring involving pro sports figures and the mafia used a series of high-tech tactics in the scam.

You can picture the scene. Tucked somewhere between the glitter and grit of Manhattan, a room wafting smoke with the rhythm of a poker game seemingly like any other: Cards whisper against felt, chips click in steady tempo,

Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups can be seen in a photo from 2019 playing poker with two people he was charged alongside Thursday in a new bombshell indictment accusing them of

The NBA world has been turned on its head after a massive sports gambling investigation officially came to light on Thursday when the FBI dropped information leading to the arrests of Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier.

A Manhattan apartment was at the center of a Mafia-run ring that used former N.B.A. players as bait and technology to read cards, prosecutors say.

US Attorney Joe Nocella alleged that the poker game scheme went beyond just fixing poker games and involved violence, including robberies. “The defendants laundered their proceeds – including through cash exchanges, the use of multiple shell companies and through cryptocurrency transfers,” he said.

Poker ranks among the most widely played games in casinos. Just recently, Grand View Research published a report valuing its global online market at $3.86 billion. The market is expected to expand at a 10.