A New York man has been sentenced to five months in federal prison for running high stakes poker games involving the rich and famous. Edwin Ting was also ordered Tuesday in Manhattan federal court to forfeit $2 million.

US Attorney Preet Bharara says that from 2010 through 2013, Ting ran poker games for the Russian mob and took a percentage of pots that reached hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Players in the underground network included professional athletes, Hollywood luminaries and business executives, authorities said. Playing poker isn’t a crime, but it’s illegal to profit by promoting it.

Ting was one of 25 defendants who pleaded guilty. They’ve agreed to forfeit a total of more than $68 million. Ting was charged in April along with 33 other alleged members and associates of two Russian-American organized crime enterprises.

Read more about the sentence for high stakes poker games at the New York Post.