By Dylan Howard - Senior Executive Editor, Star magazine

New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez played in an underground, illegal poker game where cocaine was openly used, and even organized his own high-stakes game, which ended with thugs threatening players.

A blockbuster Star investigation, published on Breaking Celebrity News, has uncovered the sordid charges being made by eyewitnesses who played in games with A-Rod, in the top-secret Texas Hold ’Em circuit.

Star first blew the lid off Tinseltown’s clandestin