$10,000 Card Shufflers Hit the Spotlight After NBA Poker Scandal

The rigged-poker-game indictment unveiled on Thursday reads like a Hollywood heist film, featuring NBA stars and famous Mafia crime families. It also involves the high-tech hacking of casino-quality card shuffling machines.

The DeckMate, made by gambling equipment supplier Light & Wonder Inc., is about the size of a carry-on suitcase and ubiquitous in casinos and card rooms. The quick-shuffling machine revolutionized poker when it was introduced in 2002 and became an industry standard. Updated models such as the DeckMate 2 can reportedly shuffle a deck of cards in 22 seconds. DeckMate is the official shuffler of the World Series of Poker.