This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we break down how one of the most common card shufflers could be altered to cheat, and why ...

NBA stars, mobsters, and marks with fat wallets are all part of an alleged ring of rigged poker games. Here’s how these games are assembled, who attends, and how the purported cheating happens.

In the betting scandal roiling the National Basketball Association, one of the charges accuses former players of conspiring with the Mafia to swindle gamblers in private poker games. It raises an ...

The indictments announced Thursday of a poker cheating ring involving NBA figures and backed by the mafia emphasized their alleged high-tech cheating methods. But the con tactics they described are as ...

The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office announced felony charges against two men who cheated at poker tables to win more than $30,000 at Pala and Harrah’s casinos. According to the DA’s press ...

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.

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 ...

Card-reading contact lenses, X-ray poker tables, trays of poker chips that read cards, hacked shuffling machines that predict hands. The technology alleged to have been used to execute a multistate, ...

OK, we're going to talk about a world that maybe most of us only know about from the movies - high-stakes poker games. The FBI arrested 31 people yesterday, including NBA coach Chauncey Billups.