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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 ...

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. The Deckmate 2 ...

The FBI says card shuffling machines were hacked to cheat at poker as part of a major illegal gambling scheme. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to a reporter who's been covering the machines' vulnerabilities.

I used to think shuffling machines were infallible. Then I trailed a team of super-sharp advantage players and watched them take on a game that was basically craps played with cards. As I wrote in my ...