She was an alleged degenerate gambler … and tenant.

The lone woman tangled in the explosive NBA gambling scandal is $8,000 in the hole with her fuming former Queens landlord — who kicked the “pain in the ass” to the curb — and boldly strutted out of Brooklyn federal court sporting a poker championship sweatshirt.

Sophia “Pookie” Wei, 40, was slapped with wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges Thursday as the FBI rounded up 31 suspects — from NBA ballers to New York Mafia honchos — accused of rigging poker games that conned high-rollers out of $7 million for several years, prosecutors said. 11

Even after cashing in as part of the scheme’s “cheating teams,” the accused swindler still stiffed her Bayside landlord, who evicted her in September 2022 for dodging rent an

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