You know what's funny? I have played poker my whole life. I started playing when I was like 1617. Here I am the day. I have never really played a home game for real money. I mean, I've played like, you know, the boys are having some beers. I've played those. But I've never played a game with significant stakes because it's just too, there's just too many things that can go wrong.

Like people can not pay you. They can be taking a cut out of the pot they're not supposed to.

There could be cheating. There could be collusion. These games get robbed.

I have the story here from the Associated Press. Heats, Rosier and Trailblazers Billups

charged in sports betting and mafia-backed poker schemes.

This was this morning.

This was breaking news, and this is a wild, wild case.

Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat Guard, Terry Rozier,

were arrested Thursday along with more than 30 other people accused of participating in schemes involving illegal

sports betting and rigged poker games backed by the mafia.

Rozier is accused of participating in illegal sports betting scheme using private insider

NBA information while Billups is being charged in a separate indictment alleging a wide-range

scheme to rig underground poker games that were backed by mafia families. Authorities said, both men face money laundering and wire fraud, conspiracy charges, and were expected to make initial court appearances later Thursday. So my name is Doug Polk. I'm one of the best poker players in the world. I most specifically specialized in one-on-one poker. It's called heads-up poker.

But I've also won three world to raise a poker bracelets. I have over $10 million in

cashes. I started a well-known trading site. I own a poker room in Texas called The Lodge. So pretty

much everything poker-related. Based. I love that. Well, dude, I want to know, what was your initial

reaction when you saw this story break this morning? Obviously, the FBI dropping this indictment, huge poker. I guess you would say, like, scam, some sort of racket. I don't know what specifically you would call it. But yeah, what was kind of your initial reaction to that indictment?

So, gigantic story that broke today. And I think it's important that we look at this into two different sections, right? Because there's actually technically two different cases going on concurrently. There's a sports betting case and then there's a poker case. So I'm familiar with both. I would say I have more insight into the poker specifically being that's more my background. But I was, look, like i've heard about some of these athlete games in the

poker world for a long time there have been rumblings of cheating for quite some time as well

and then also a lot of this uh the sports betting side we heard even from the nba earlier this year

that there was a investigation where they looked into terry rosier and cleared him of wrongdoing

so we've seen swirling stuff about this for a while now, but now we're just starting to see it come to light. Yeah. Well, I mean, for one, we can drill down on the sports betting real quick. I mean, yeah, we saw them saying they were investigating Terry Rozier, but then you started seeing these like low light compilations of him just like seemingly just chucking the ball away like like it looked like yMCA activities i don't really know what to say there um and that

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