Bad boy Robert Iler was close to getting busted again yesterday when he walked into an illegal Upper East Side gambling den looking to play some poker. The NYPD was already there making arrests, and luckily, they busted the dealers, not the players.
According to PageSix, the dealers were arrested for promoting gambling, but Iler — who plays Anthony Soprano Jr. on the hit HBO series "The Sopranos," and a crowd of 30 others were let go after officers ran their IDs for outstanding warrants.
The cops found the high-stakes poker room after receiving a 911 call complaining about "a disorderly crowd" in the fifth-floor apartment at 328 E. 61st St. that houses the Ace Point Backgammon Club & Chess Studio. Just as the dealers were being arrest, Iler and two friends walked in. Iler has been in trouble before - he was convicted in 2002 of mugging two tourists on the Upper East Side and pot possession. He was sentenced to three years probation. Looks like "AJ" might have a budding gambling problem as well.
