A total of three individuals were arrested for cheating in poker games by marking the decks of cards with invisible ink in a casino in Cannes. The three that were arrested include a Frenchman, a poker dealer, and another who is part of the staff of the casino. Not only were these three were arrested, but they were also accused of being long time organized criminals.

How They Were Caught

The three individuals were first suspected of cheating back in August when they cashed out with more than $60,000 in a single night. Of course, they were only suspected of cheating at that point as the casino staff members and officials could not get any confirmation of the scam during that point in time. In order to make sure, the casino officials have decided to set up a trap for the would-be cheaters if ever they try to come back and play unfairly in another time. Well, the cheaters really did come back in order to try their scam again, which they thought was successful, after winning a total of $41,000. The thing is that the security is well aware of their presence and has made the proper action, which is basically arresting them.

Organized Crime

Well, the individuals were caught and the method they used to cheat in the poker games was basically seeing through the cards of their opponents. They did this by marking the back of the cards with invisible ink and the cheater then wore a special set of glasses in order to tell what the cards of their opponents were. This basically gave them a huge advantage over their opponents, or pretty much like their opponents did not really have any chance of winning against them. After the arrest, things got even more interesting as the officials say that the trio were part of an organized crime group. French gaming officials even believe that there is a possibility that the trio have been doing it for quite some time now all over Europe.

The manner of cheating is already well known in US based casinos, and dealers or players caught cheating in the same manner will be put to prison for a pretty long time, and will be banned from entering any land based casinos. Then thing is, this is still pretty new in France, so officials have not yet decided on the fate of those who were caught cheating.