On a warm summer afternoon, Kelly provides Cigar Aficionado with an exclusive deep-dive into her life and world. They snapped photos of her outside of the London courthouse where she and Ivey litigated in an attempt to get their winnings. Historically, she dodges reporters and dons enormous sunglasses in order to frustrate paparazzi. For the first time, she is welcoming a journalist into her home. Sitting in her high-ceilinged living room in Las Vegas, with a golf course on the gated grounds and a gorgeous pool out back, Kelly is petite and pretty and easy with a laugh. Winning millions becomes a foregone conclusion when you play the Kelly way. In the game of mini-baccarat, in which players do not touch their cards, Kelly employed social engineering techniques to convince Chinese-speaking dealers to turn certain cards 'for good luck.' It allowed her to set the decks so that she could recognize the game's key cards: sixes, sevens, eights and nines. It involves capitalizing on casinos that use playing cards in which the edges on either side are unevenly cut by fractions of an inch.

The pair won their money by employing a technique known as edge sorting.

The brains behind the operation, she brought Ivey along on a casino spree that generated more than $30 million. Though Ivey might be a card-playing genius, in the case of this baccarat caper all he had to do was bet. Supreme Court hearing is in the works and the pair remain in the hole on their profits from there. (Ivey and his lawyers did not respond to repeated requests for comment.) A recent appeal failed to pan out, a bid for a U.K. Ivey sued the refined gambling-den and Crockfords steadfastly maintained that Ivey had won by deceptive means. He made headlines in 2012 when Crockfords Casino in London refused to cash more than $11 million in chips that he won playing baccarat. The 'Phil' she refers to is none other than poker legend Phil Ivey. Most striking of all is a money-green pocketbook made from reptile skin. Then, in the midst of our leather-themed tour, she moves on to handbags, showing off limited-edition models from Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Hermès. There are enough sneakers to outfit an NBA team and loads of boots reside in the garage-right alongside her new BMW.

Jimmy Choo, Christian Louboutin and Manolo Blahnik are all represented. Cheung Yin Sun, who goes by the name Kelly, has walk-in closets overflowing with heels, flats, pumps and wedges. But I was unprepared for the sheer quantity, quality and acquisitional gusto. No woman wins tens-of-millions-of-dollars from casinos without treating herself to a few nice rides.

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