Chauncey Billups, poker and sports betting
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X-ray tables. Hidden cameras. Pre-marked cards. Here's how investigators say suspects rigged poker games to allegedly steal at least $7 million.
FBI documents revealed an illegal gambling scheme involving over 30 arrests, including NBA players who used card-shuffling machines and hidden cameras to cheat at poker.
Wild allegation filed this week by federal prosecutors in one of the most sweeping and sensational betting scandals in recent professional sports history.
Shane “Sugar” Hennen, 40, was nabbed at Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International Airport in January as the feds pursued a point-shaving case against him and exiled NBA player Jontay Porter that
NBA star turned coach Damon Jones was arrested by the FBI in connection to an illegal betting ring that allegedly
Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and former Cleveland Cavaliers assistant Damon Jones are among 34 people charged in connection with schemes involving illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by Mafia,
The stunning allegations paint a picture of a sophisticated cheating scheme that featured X-ray-equipped poker tables, rigged card shufflers, marked cards and the use of sensor-equipped contact lenses and glasses by colluding players at the table.