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A big-money poker ring involving NBA figures indicted this week for allegedly cheating unsuspecting rich players echoes decades of films and TV shows, with supposed Mafia involvement adding to the drama.

More than 30 people were indicted on charges related to rigged, high-dollar poker games that allegedly involved NBA stars and organized crime families,

The Department of Justice detailed sophisticated technology allegedly used in the poker scandal linked to the NBA and organized crime families.

Antonio Gates is denying any involvement in any rigged poker game after being linked to the ongoing gambling scandal that has wrapped up current and former NBA players.

Among those caught up in the web of illegal gambling allegations are Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier.

Two years before Chauncey Billups was named in an indictment in a rigged poker scheme, a pro poker player said a rigged game was built around Billups.

Hidden cameras, X-ray tables and a Hall of Famer as bait. How an illegal card ring deployed Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups to attract unsuspecting victims.

Police in Sugar Land, Texas say Adrian Peterson fessed up to throwing back shots of a vodka mix at a poker game early Sunday morning ... just hours before he was arrested for DWI.

The members of New York City’s notorious “Five Families” are known by many names: wise guys, goodfellas, friends of ours.

They used the star to do it. They had us excited. The only reason they were able to pull this off was because they had a professional athlete in place.”