ESPN – Michael A. Fletcher – Sports mafia ties run deeper than NBA gambling scandal
Sports Business Journal – Silver says he was ‘deeply disturbed’ by gambling arrests
Phil has a question:
If Matt Berkey, the founder of Solve for Why, a poker training academy knew in 2019 that Chauncey Billups was playing in rigged poker games why didn’t Silver and the NBA.
ESPN – Dan Wetzel: Sports betting money is good, but it’s not cheap
Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life’s work. Destroy his faith in its squareness and honesty and you have destroyed something more; you have planted suspicion of all things in his heart.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Phil has a question:
Isn’t it high time that we started putting educators on pedestals rather that overpaid arrogant cheaters.
How about 20 years of breaking rocks for Billups and 10 for Rozier.
In 2023, Matt Berkey, the founder of Solve for Why, a poker training academy, recounted a story on his podcast about a series of poker games played in 2019 “all built around Chauncey Billups.” Berkey was told about the game, that it was legit; one scan of the list of people involved was enough for Berkey to call that bluff. “I had some friends who went and played in L.A. and in Vegas, and it obviously was for sure confirmed to be cheated. People who clearly didn’t even know the rules of no-limit Hold ’em are jamming hundreds of big blinds in with a gutty and just drilling it. Only the pros are losing.” The perpetrators allegedly used chip trays bugged with hidden cameras, X-ray tables, special contact lenses and eyeglasses that could detect premarked cards, and a rigged shuffling machine stolen at gunpoint—all to clean out unsuspecting players at the table.
The Ringer – Danny Chau – The NBA Is Gambling Away Its Soul
Listen, here’s the thing. If you can’t spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.
Mike McDermot, ‘Rounders’
SportsNet – AP – Adam Silver ‘deeply disturbed’ by Billups, Rozier arrests
Front Office Sports – Ben Horney – NBA Betting Scandal Goes Far Beyond Terry Rozier and Damon Jones
Front Office Sports – Denis Young – Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups Will Fight Gambling Cases
Phil has a question:
Isn’t Patel in a conflict of interest since he works for America’s biggest crime family – the Trumpinos.
Front Office Sports – Dennis Young – Read the Chauncey Billups ‘Rigged’ Poker Indictment
Listen, here’s the thing. If you can’t spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.
Mike McDermot, ‘Rounders’
There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners.
Hunter S. Thompson
Phil M. Stockmen
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