Photo: Jeff Brown/ It was early spring 2024, and at an overlit food court in an Atlantic City casino called Resorts, a group of poker dealers was holed up at a table cluttered with baskets of chicken fingers and fries. Tim McCormack was both a trusted New York City dealer and a gambler; he’d worked in backroom games since he was a teenager in Brooklyn. He’d come down earlier that day with fellow dealers Ammar Awawdeh and Long Phi “Bruce” Pham. Like McCormack, Pham gambled, but Awawdeh was on