[Aurornis]

> Now, people play poker, and cheat, and they want the government to police their poker games and make sure they're fair.

No, if you personally run a poker game in your house and cheat your friends the government doesn’t care. The FBI isn’t going to be interested.

If you join the mafia and run an organized crime ring that operates poker games as a business which systematically defrauds people for large amounts of money and funnels the proceeds to organized crime through money laundering operations, the FBI will be interested.

If you look at this story and only see “some people cheated at a poker game” you’re missing the real story. This was a full on organized crime business operation

[ClarityJones]

Okay, a lot of people cheated at a lot of poker games? I feel like we're being redundant here.

So, their cheating was organized and systematic? Yeah, you can't really cheat consistently without having a scheme.

Did anyone really think the mafia were running fair backroom poker games?

[gdulli]

It's not even lunch yet and "the mafia should be allowed to build onto their tower of crimes in peace" is a take that I don't think that will be beat today.