A Basketball Hall of Famer. X-ray poker tables. The Mafia. They were all purportedly crucial to an alleged yearslong illegal poker rigging scheme that resulted in 31 federal indictments this week . The case focused on rigged poker games is one of two announced that allegedly involve prominent NBA figures.

Investigators state that the scheme to defraud players at a poker table began in April 2019 when defendant Robert "Black Rob" Stroud and other co-conspirators began devising a ruse to use technology to rig illegal poker games, usually Texas Hold 'em, against unwitting, wealthy players whom they called "fish" or "whales," and who were aware that they were playing in illegal, high-stakes games, but believed these were "straight" games against other wealthy players. In reality, in many ca

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