OK, we're going to talk about a world that maybe most of us only know about from the movies - high-stakes poker games. The FBI arrested 31 people yesterday, including NBA coach Chauncey Billups.

In a luxury $22m (£16.5m) townhouse in New York’s Greenwich Village, the poker game was in full swing. As the cards whizzed through the electric shufflers, deep-pocketed players pinched themselves as ...

NYC mafiosos and NBA stars used a combination of high-tech contraptions and old-school gambling tricks to swindle hapless high-rollers out of $7 million in a sprawling backroom poker scheme, ...