A Gambino-connected felon accused of running a rigged underground poker game with NBA players out of a swanky West Village townhouse triggered a mob battle over a rival game on the East Side, prosecutors say.

Ammar Awawdeh, 34, played a key role in the sprawling plot to run the sprawling rigged poker scheme, the feds allege, operating one of the crooked games out of 80 Washington Place, a Greenwich Village townhouse where rapper Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner reportedly once lived that sold for $17 million in 2024.

The conspiracy used Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and former Cleveland Cavaliers player and coach Damon Jones to draw in big-money players to underground poker games. They then used a sophisticated system of spying tech, including an altered automatic

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