Part II: Table Game Cheating · Sports Book · #6.29

Insider Prop-Bet Fixing (Fake Injury Exit)

How it works

A player, coach or someone else with inside information tells bettors in advance that a player will underperform or leave a game, for example by faking an injury. Associates then bet on that player’s “under” statistics before the information is public, often through straw bettors so the wagers cannot be traced back to them. The bets break sportsbook rules against betting on non-public information or through straw bettors, and in the United States such schemes have been prosecuted as wire fraud conspiracy.

Where it appears

Sportsbooks and retail betting counters that take player prop and same-game bets, especially on minor players

On the record

According to the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter told Long Phi Pham and others that he would leave games on 26 January and 20 March 2024 early with purported injuries, so that they could bet on his unders; the bets were placed through a network of straw bettors and many of them paid off. Porter and Pham have pleaded guilty in connection with the scheme. In October 2025 prosecutors unsealed a wider indictment alleging that other players, coaches and associates used non-public injury and lineup information to bet through online sportsbooks and retail outlets; those defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

Published as a detection reference for surveillance, compliance and gaming-operations professionals. Thresholds and tuning are set by the property. Nothing here is instruction: the method is described so it can be recognised.