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... The technology was everywhere - an X-ray table that read any face-down card, analysers inside chip trays, a rigged shuffling machine that read cards and predicted who would have the best hand, and pre-marked cards that allowed those wearing special sunglasses and contact lenses to read what was in everyone's hands.

Secretive cameras -- built into tables and light fixtures -- also helped convey information to those helping in the plot, authorities say.

Then there was also a sophisticated method of communicating and rigging the game, prosecutors allege.

Information from the game would be sent to an off-site conspirator -- called an "operator" by prosecutors -- who then would send information to another player sitting at the table who was in on the scheme --- who prosecutors call a "quarterback" or "driver". ...