DETROIT — The arrest of former Pistons great Chauncey Billups for allegedly rigging high-stakes poker games has been deemed a bombshell since the news broke Thursday.

But you can count many in the poker community as those who weren’t overly surprised.

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Berkey, in the clip that resurfaced after Billups’ arrest Thursday, described his invite to the game as being around 2019.

“Here was this game, it started in L.A., then it came to Vegas for a few days, and it was all built around Chauncey Billups,” Berkey said on the podcast. “And I had heard about the game, and the person who told me about it was like, ‘Look, I know the game runners, I’m telling you 100 percent this game is on the up and up.’ … And I was like, ‘Well, I know a lot of the people that are involved and I’m t

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