Card Player – Philadelphia will soon be home to a brand new Las Vegas-style casino, and in the meantime authorities are cracking down on alleged illicit gambling operations. A federal indictment was unsealed Friday charging nine people in a loan sharking and illegal gambling ring allegedly run out of several Philadelphia businesses. There were a handful of charges listed in the indictment. They include racketeering conspiracy, racketeering collection of unlawful debt, making extortionate extensions of credit, collections of extensions of credit by extortionate means, operating an illegal gambling business and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of…