article_snippet: A poker player cheated casinos across the country out of tens of thousands of pounds by making almost invisible dents and bends in cards.
article_snippet: Unemployed poker player Mihai Lacatos is one of the first people to be convicted for a specific cheating technique called ‘card marking.'
article_snippet: Lacatos (bottom right corner) was captured on camera making the almost imperceptible marks on cards .
article_snippet: Unemployed poker player Mihai Lacatos used slight of hand to subtly bend and dent cards at the poker table and was so skilled Unemployed poker player Mihai Lacatos cheating went unnoticed for years.
article_snippet: The bends and dents helped Unemployed poker player Mihai Lacatos identify what other players at the table for three card games were holding.
article_snippet: Lacatos marked cards like the one above, so that the dents could identify the cards his opponents held .
article_snippet: Bruce Koloshi admitted cheating at a casino in Louisiana, America, in 2014.
article_snippet: Bruce Koloshi was found using infrared ink to mark cards, which could only be seen using special contact lenses.
highlights_snippet: Romanian national marked cards with dents to cheat at poker games .
  