NBA player among 30 arrested for gambling scheme that included X-ray poker table(theguardian.com)

1 pointsby whycomevor 9 Monaten4 comments

NBA player among 30 arrested for gambling scheme that included X-ray poker table

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/oct/23/heats-rozier-and-blazers-coach-billups-reportedly-arrested-over-separate-gambling-claims

4 comments

whycomevor 9 Monaten

> NBA player and head coach among 30 arrested in illegal US gambling investigation. FBI says years-long operation that led to arrest of Heat’s Terry Rozier and Trail Blazers’ Chauncey Billups also connected to mafia families

> Prosecutors claim that the defendants used “very sophisticated cheating technologies” including rigged shuffling machines, poker chip tray analyzers, special contact lenses and an X-ray poker table that could read cards.

ChrisArchitectvor 9 Monaten

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45684548

whycomevor 9 Monaten

Just because it’s the same overall case doesn’t meant it’s a dupe. That link doesn’t mention the X-Ray poker tables (which would be of particular interest to the HN crowd).

b3ingvor 9 Monaten

Don’t these guys make enough money? But greed is a common human unsatisfiable desire