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| Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups during the teams first game on Wednesday. AP |
I was happily floating along in the dream-like world that the NBA portrays, so this story surprised me:
In the middle of the story about all the criminals and their criminal activity, there is this description that sounds like something out of a Mission: Impossible movie:
According to the FBI, the alleged fraud included self-shuffling machines that had "been secretly altered in order to read the cards on the deck, predict which player on the table had the best poker hand, and relay the information to an offsite operator," said Nocella, adding "The offsite operator sent the information via cell phone back to a co-conspirator at the table and that person at the table was known as the 'quarterback.' The 'quarterback' then signaled secretly the information he had received to others at the table and together they used that information in order to win their games and to cheat the victims."
The scheme also allegedly used poker chip tray analyzers, special contact lenses or glasses that can read pre-marked cards, and an X-ray table that can read face down cards on the table.
I guess all those Netflix shows about murder investigations that end up pointing to corruption at the highest levels of society are actually true stories, they've just changed the names to protect the guilty.
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