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How Federal Investigators Were Tipped Off to Gilbert Arenas Poker Games

PokerNews has obtained exclusive documentation detailing why federal authorities accused retired NBA star Gilbert Arenas of running alleged illegal poker games, and it all ties back to a losing player's unpaid $1.2 million poker debt.

The case against the former Washington Wizard in Los Angeles began when a man approached police and claimed he had been threatened over the aforementioned debt.

According to a search warrant affidavit reported by the Los Angeles Times, the man claimed to have lost the seven-figure sum in a single night playing poker in "the glass house," a four-story property that was previously rented by singer Justin Bieber and hosted a 2015 Grammy party for Meek Mill.