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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.
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.
Does your poker game use an automatic shuffler? As it turns out, the machines are not as safe as we once thought.
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.
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.
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.
And, weirdly enough, those games are alleged to have involved a bunch of current and former NBA officials and players, who are now in quite a bit of trouble. A new federal indictment claims that members of organized crime families hosted games that used hacked card shufflers.
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.