Andy Greenberg, writing at Wired:
The 31 defendants in the first indictment are charged with running a ring of high-stakes private poker games from New York to the Hamptons to Miami, allegedly luring victims with the prospect of playing with NBA stars and then fleecing them for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars with multiple high-tech cheating systems—among them, hacked card shufflers set up to secretly transmit exactly what cards each player would have in their hand.
Holy cow!
This story has everything: Hacked cameras in the shufflers! Enter your cards and seat or just the flop and know all the cards at the table! La Casa Nostra!
How Hacked Card Shufflers Allegedly Enabled a Mob-Fueled Poker Scam That Rocked the NBA
WIRED recently demonstrated how to cheat at poker by hacking the Deckmate 2 card shufflers used in casinos. The mob was allegedly using the same trick to fleece victims for millions.