Scammers like those charged in the NBA and Mafia poker ring seem willing to go to any extreme to fix games — even using ear pieces so tiny they need to be ripped out by a magnet, a cheating pro has revealed.

Prosecutors detailed Thursday how the criminals behind the sensational multimillion-dollar basketball- and mob-tied scheme used “X-ray” tables to read cards lying face-down on them and accomplice players equipped with special contact lenses to pick up on marked cards.

But fraud pro Sal Piacente told CNN during a TV interview that the illicit moves are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to pulling the felt over the eyes of marks.

Piacente held in his hand a tiny earpiece — about the size of a shotgun shot — that he said some cheaters use to communicate with each other.

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