A total of 27 people including a former pro baseball scout and a high-stakes poker player in New York, New Jersey, Florida and Nevada were charged with enterprise corruption, money laundering, promoting gambling and other counts.

New York Police Department investigators used a search warrant to get into Giordano’s (a poker pro) hotel room while he was attending a wedding and they proceeded to quickly make a digital copy of his laptop’s hard drive. Police found a gambling web ring that saw more than $3.3 billion in sports wagers since 2004. The massive betting ring was run through a Web site called Playwithal.com, run by the poker player, James Giordano.

“This is the largest illegal gambling operation that this department has ever encountered,” said Kelly - Police Chief. “It rivals casinos for the amount of betting, $3.3 billion over the past 28 months alone.”

This operation has nothing to do with the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, or the arrests of David Carruthers and Peter Dicks.