Really bad look for the NBA picking up a second major scandal this year, illegal Balmer payments to Kawhi Leonard being the first.
>The card information will be known to the viewers by using RFID (radio-frequency identification) technology for the very first time at the WSOP. Each card has a microchip embedded in it that has no impact on the cards or play, but with a specially-outfitted poker table, can send an encrypted signal to decipher the card’s rank and suit. The WSOP has used this technology during the 2012-13 WSOP Circuit season with success, and it is found throughout European poker events as well.
Now, sports exist to facilitate gambling. Sports are interesting to viewers who have money on the line, and thus the authenticity is irrelevant and actually undermines the sport. Every gambler wants to believe they have an edge and that the outcomes are rigged... in their favor. If the outcomes are determined by the players simply trying their best, then what's the point of gambling?
Oh come on Chauncey Billus didn’t do his betting in Crypto like Dogecoin we just gonna let everybody skate like George Sorry-Ass Santos I guess?
Damn answered my own question.
In this context "the games" or "they" refer to poker games, not professional sports contests.
As for corked bat and such, none of that is the case and I've no idea where you are going with that.
I wonder if you read the article.
>Mr. Nocella said the technology also included “specially designed contact lenses and sunglasses to read the backs of playing cards, which ensured that the victims would lose big.”
This technology (in a fictionalized eyepatch form) was the setup of the "I also like to live dangerously" joke.
You know what the sad part is?
They won't.
Wrestling and roller derby would need to give audiences something to bet on before they would switch from football-soccer-basketball-baseball.
A switch away from the popular bet-able sports will never happen in the absence of another set of corrupt bet-able sports.
They don't necessarily have or need evidence that Billups was aware of the rigging, just the regular financial crimes of taking payments from the Mafia that will presumably get him to cooperate.
The "rigged games" in the context of the gambling arrests in this article are rigged poker games. So when the person you responded to referred to rigged games, and you go:
> Of course they were rigged. This is sports we're talking about
It seems like you're in a conversation that nobody else is having.
The way I envision it working is a customer wearing the magic glasses says they have superstitious beliefs and they need the convenience store clerk to spread the tickets out so that they can 'see the aura' or w.e. of the tickets so they can pick a winning one.
I'm curious if this is even illegal. I assume that somewhere it would be but I bet that in a lot of places it isn't and if you were subtle about it you could get away with it for years.
Of course this all relies on the idea that the sensor is something that fits in glasses, or can be discretely hidden in a broach or something they wear with the video feed displayed on their glasses.
These are not arms-length transactions that contribute to the production of valuable goods and services. All it does is invite moral hazards into existing markets.
The real moral qualm that the public generally has is with the cheating / steroids / etc., which isn't a crime. However, those who want to deal in gambling are riding on that moral outrage to prosecute people for gambling in a way that other gamblers didn't like.
Fundamentally, gambling is a den of liars and cheats. If it's going to be legal, then make it legal... including the fraud. Let people know that, sure you're allowed to gamble on poker, and the other guy is also allowed to cheat. The government should not waste resources guaranteeing that everyone's gambling is free of cheating nor spend time investigating whether Player 1 was really injured when he took a knee in the 4th quarter, or if Player 2 took a peek at Player 3's cards. The nation isn't a casino. That type of law enforcement does not provide a valuable contribution to society.
Later it meant "I like sitting on couch watching guys on TV kick the ball".
Now it means "I am a gambler".
UK regulations are also more coherent, centralised, and strict than the patchwork US model.
The question is whether the US has the gumption and collaborative power to put something similar in place before the damage is done.
"The 1877 Louisville Grays scandal was an incident in which members of the Louisville Grays baseball team accepted money to lose games. Four players – Bill Craver, Jim Devlin, George Hall and Al Nichols – were subsequently banned from professional baseball for life."
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877_Louisville_Grays_scandal
Just stuffing any table with two or more "players/bots" that can see all the cards or share their hands with each other would guarantee enormous payouts on the hundreds of millions at stake in the industry. There are obviously a million more things sites could be doing to take money and there's absolutely no source code control the government does to ensure that the whatever code the regulators look at is running in production and that no other systems are running in parallel, like a bot service that colludes to win.