gambling rings
Underground betting operations
A gambling ring is an organized group running illegal betting operations, typically on sports, card games, or other contests.
The ring handles bets, sets odds, and collects or pays out winnings outside legal channels.
Law enforcement periodically breaks up gambling rings: The FBI dismantled a gambling ring that had been operating out of the back of a restaurant for years.
- bookiesThose accepting wagers
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
- organized crimeStructured illegal enterprise
- racketsFrauds or court gear
- syndicateCombined group pursuing shared interest
mob · illegal · betting · stakes · high stakes poker · loan sharks · fixers · vice · bust · raid · payoffs · numbers · point shaving · backroom · cops · money laundering · informants · kingpin
- crimesarson, burglary, robbery, kidnapping, vandalism
- organized crimemafia, mob, the mob, syndicate, crime syndicate
- gambling crimesillegal casino, match fixing, race fixing, point shaving, numbers racket
- black marketblack market, illegal trade, smugglers, contraband, traffickers