Two Cubans Marking Cards - Caught Them Five Years Ago - They're Still In Operation (2 Viewers)

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Back when I lived and played poker in Tampa I encountered a couple of Cubans who always sat diagonal from one another and were caught marking cards.

Five years later I'm in Austin TX and who do I see but those same fuckers show up at The Lodge. They had already had people suspicious of them, but the room hadn't caught them doing anything. I pulled a floor manager aside and clued them in on what they were doing and how they were doing it and they acted quickly, caught them and gave them the boot.

Since then I've been furiously spreading the word on multiple socials and they were just recently caught in Houston trying to cheat.

They typically will use their fingernails to gouge the outside edge of a card based on its value. In the middle for middle valued cards, at the top/bottom for broadway cards and unmarked are low cards is how I understand it. They try to sit seats 1 and 6 so they can trap players between them for raises, and seat 1 can see the edge of the deck. So they'll know if the runout will favor high, middle or low cards. They can still lose to flushes, and they'll still lose hands when they haven't marked the deck fully. But they show up with some outrageous hands and wins in spots and a lot of people pass it off as them being crazy gamblers because they don't win every hand.

POKERFRAUDALERT THREAD: https://pokerfraudalert.com/forum/s...wo-Cubans-Cheating-At-Live-PLO-throughout-USA

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Since then I've been furiously spreading the word on multiple socials and they were just recently caught in Houston trying to cheat.
Get em!

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Back when I lived and played poker in Tampa I encountered a couple of Cubans who always sat diagonal from one another and were caught marking cards.

Five years later I'm in Austin TX and who do I see but those same fuckers show up at The Lodge. They had already had people suspicious of them, but the room hadn't caught them doing anything. I pulled a floor manager aside and clued them in on what they were doing and how they were doing it and they acted quickly, caught them and gave them the boot.

Since then I've been furiously spreading the word on multiple socials and they were just recently caught in Houston trying to cheat.

They typically will use their fingernails to gouge the outside edge of a card based on its value. In the middle for middle valued cards, at the top/bottom for broadway cards and unmarked are low cards is how I understand it. They try to sit seats 1 and 6 so they can trap players between them for raises, and seat 1 can see the edge of the deck. So they'll know if the runout will favor high, middle or low cards. They can still lose to flushes, and they'll still lose hands when they haven't marked the deck fully. But they show up with some outrageous hands and wins in spots and a lot of people pass it off as them being crazy gamblers because they don't win every hand.

POKERFRAUDALERT THREAD: https://pokerfraudalert.com/forum/s...wo-Cubans-Cheating-At-Live-PLO-throughout-USA

REDDIT THREAD WITH LINK TO MY VIDEO WITH RECEIPTS:
LATEST REDDIT THREAD WITH BETTER PHOTOS:
That’s funny as hell. I saw that headline yesterday, and immediately thought of you. Then my next thought was that most good cheaters probably work with a partner, so they could be anybody. Same guys? Damn.
 
That’s funny as hell. I saw that headline yesterday, and immediately thought of you. Then my next thought was that most good cheaters probably work with a partner, so they could be anybody. Same guys? Damn.

I'm getting reports there are others who've tried this as well, and it's not all just Cubans.

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One of them found my socials and started messaging me, I'll share the pics and give the google translations

INSTAGRAM MESSAGE 1/13/2026

Muaaa
Asqueroso estás añadiéndome y difamando de mí ok Slll te digo
So pierco so gordito singao por culo


Muaa
You disgusting person, you're adding me and slandering me, okay? I'm just telling you
You're a loser, a fatass, a fucking asshole



FACEBOOK MESSAGE 1/13/2026

Hollé so llegua mira todo lo que tú estás haciendo todo tiene consecuencia ok do gordito feo maricon tú ami no me sabes ni pinga ok

Ha no se queda haqui te voy acusar

De donde pinga tu ami me conoces so enano pestoso

Hey, listen, look at everything you're doing, everything has consequences, okay, you fat, ugly faggot, you don't know a damn thing about me, okay?

It doesn't end here, I'm going to report you

Where the hell do you know me from, you stinky dwarf?


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The dumb narcissism on this one... "It was not enough that you dared to avoid getting cheated by me, asshole! Now, I shall document felonies to teach you!"
 
PokerNews put out an article and discovered both are gaming board banned in FL

https://www.pokernews.com/news/2026/01/poker-cheaters-banned-from-texas-poker-room-50409.htm

There were a few errors in the article that I notified them to correct (they mention I encountered them at Hard Rock Tampa rather than Tampa Greyhound Track, they mention they were caught in Iowa and IL when it was Eastern Euros using the same card marking technique, and they mentioned I received threatening messages from both when it was just from one, they should be correcting that soon if it's not already done)
 
PokerNews put out an article and discovered both are gaming board banned in FL

https://www.pokernews.com/news/2026/01/poker-cheaters-banned-from-texas-poker-room-50409.htm

There were a few errors in the article that I notified them to correct (they mention I encountered them at Hard Rock Tampa rather than Tampa Greyhound Track, they mention they were caught in Iowa and IL when it was Eastern Euros using the same card marking technique, and they mentioned I received threatening messages from both when it was just from one, they should be correcting that soon if it's not already done)
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I mean if they were going to put in the article that you called them Cubans even though nobody knows, they might as well have gone all the way with your Cuban sandwich analogy.

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Now that you’re pursuing career criminals publicly, what are you guys doing with the cats when they kidnap you?
 
I mean if they were going to put in the article that you called them Cubans even though nobody knows, they might as well have gone all the way with your Cuban sandwich analogy.

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Now that you’re pursuing career criminals publicly, what are you guys doing with the cats when they kidnap you?

We lost two cats last year, just down to Ruffian now. He'll go Taken on them and hunt them down with his special set of skills
 

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