Professional poker player Matt Berkey wasn’t surprised by the illegal gambling allegations against Chauncey Billups.
Professional poker player Matt Berkey wasn’t surprised by the illegal gambling allegations against Chauncey Billups.
In a 2023 clip that has gone viral after the bombshell federal gambling scandal was revealed on Thursday, Berkey detailed what he described as a rigged poker game he got word of that allegedly involved the Trail Blazers head coach, who was one of the 30-plus people arrested in a pair of sweeping busts.
“Cheating is mmmkay? There are a lot of stories about it,” Berkey said on his “Only Friends Podcast” in a resurfaced clip from August 2023. “There was one that cropped up, this must’ve been like five years ago, 2019-ish I think … There was this game, it started in LA then it came to Vegas for a few days. And it was all built around Chauncey Billups.
