Decidedly, the cheat is a recurring theme among poker players and casino players. News PokerCollectif regulars will have surely several stories in mind.
Today, it is a story of cards marked with infrared lenses. Six cheats come to be pinned in France relating to this story.
Among them, there are 3 Italian players, two officials of the French Riviera casinos, and the young son of a croupier who played the intermediary. Of these men, there is Stefano Ampollini, 56 years old, who presented himself to his audience as a 'player and cheater of international renown.
Ampollini examined the cards of his opponents through its infrared lenses purchased in China via the Internet (for the modest sum of $ 2000). These lenses he could see cards marked in ink invisible to the naked eye and thus to guess the value of the cards.
The man aged 56 nicknamed 'Parmesan' had once won 70,000 euros during one of its passages to the casino. But when he delivered the feet to the same casino, he was arrested (after winning an another 21,000 euros).
In total, seven people were considered in this case, including two former employees of casinos in Cannes and Nice, which had provided the rigged card game.
The man wearing the lenses, Ampollini, was sentenced to 2 years in prison in addition to having to pay a fine of 100,000 euros. The other accomplices were also fined fines and months of penitentiary.
Casinos do not seem to like players who win too often and too easily.
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