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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.
The FBI is investigating high-stakes poker games that were allegedly rigged with X-ray tables, card-sorting machines and high-tech glasses.
Does your poker game use an automatic shuffler? As it turns out, the machines are not as safe as we once thought.
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Poker cheats will go to any extreme — even using magnet to rip ear piece off eardrum, pro reveals
Scammers like those charged in the NBA and Mafia poker ring seem willing to go to any extreme to fix games — even using ear pieces so tiny they need to be ripped out by a magnet, a cheating pro has revealed.
The FBI says card shuffling machines were hacked to cheat at poker as part of a major illegal gambling scheme. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to a reporter who's been covering the machines' vulnerabilities.
A Manhattan apartment was at the center of a Mafia-run ring that used former N.B.A. players as bait and technology to read cards, prosecutors say.
WIRED's Andy Greenberg teams up with casino cheating expert Sal Piacente and hacker/researcher Joseph Tartaro to exploit an automatic card shuffler used in casinos everywhere to engineer a big win. This is Hacklab: I Cheated At Poker By Hacking A Casino Card Shuffling Machine.
In an episode of WIRED magazine's "Hacklab," a hacker shows how easy it is for him to cheat with the popular Deckmate 2 automatic shuffler.