Private poker games run all over the U.S., with rare instances of criminal charges being filed. Retired NBA star Gilbert Arenas is in the minority, as he faces a decade in prison for his alleged involvement in an illegal gambling operation. Federal investigators arrested the hoopster and five others in connection with private games that took place in a Los …
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Gilbert Arenas was arrested Wednesday in connection with a federal indictment that alleges the former NBA star hosted illegal high-stakes poker games at his mansion in Encino, California, according to a release from the United States Attorney’s Office of Central California. Arenas is officially charged with one count of conspiracy to operate an illegal gambling business, one count of operating …
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Former NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas was arrested Wednesday alongside five other men on conspiracy charges for allegedly running an illegal “high-stakes” poker game in Encino that included hiring women to provide “companionship” for gamblers, court records show. Arenas, 43, rented out an Encino mansion that he owned between September 2021 and July 2022 “for the purposes of hosting high-stakes illegal …
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Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas and a half-dozen others allegedly ran high-end, illegal poker games at a Los Angeles home rented by the “Agent Zero” player, federal authorities said Wednesday. The eight were charged in connection to the games that were allegedly conducted between Sept. 12, 2021 and July 20 2022, according to charging documents. Arenas “would rent out a …
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ANGIE HAN Once upon a time, when broadcast ruled the roost, summer was a fallow time for TV. The traditional season would end in the spring, to start up again in the fall; it wasn’t that there were no new shows, but they’d be exceptions in a sea of reruns. Of course, that’s all changed in the past couple of …
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Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi can finally add the title of World Series of Poker main event winner to one of the most prolific résumés in professional poker history. Mizrachi captured his eighth WSOP bracelet, tying him for the fifth most all time, and his first in the main event by eliminating John Wasnock in heads-up poker Wednesday afternoon. Mizrachi took …
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This post contains spoilers for the Season Two finale of Poker Face, now streaming on Peacock. The second season of Poker Face nearly ends on a cliffhanger. Towards the end of the finale — appropriately titled “The End of the Road” — the show’s human lie detector heroine, Charlie Cale (Natasha Lyonne), is stuck in her beloved 1969 Plymouth Barracuda with master …
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