DETROIT — The arrest of former Pistons great Chauncey Billups for allegedly rigging high-stakes poker games has been deemed a bombshell since the news broke Thursday.

But you can count many in the poker community as those who weren’t overly surprised. Matt Berkey, a high-profile poker player, described on a podcast two years ago how he had heard Billups was involved in cheating at a high-stakes poker game, first in Los Angeles, then in Las Vegas. Berkey said on the “Only Friends Podcast” that he’d been invited to the game, but had heard too many horror stories from close friends.

Berkey, in the clip that resurfaced after Billups’ arrest Thursday, described his invite to the game as being around 2019.

“Here was this game, it started in L.A., then it came to Vegas for a few days, and it w

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