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Stefano Ampollini conned £60,000 from casino, then £19,000 months later
He used £1,800 contact lenses to see cards marked by accomplices
Ampollini smiled as he was sentenced and seemed proud of his 'work'

poker player was sentenced to two years in prison yesterday after using infra-red contact lenses and cards marked with invisible ink to win games.The high-tech scam saw Stefano Ampollini, a 56-year-old Italian nicknamed ‘Parmesan’, rake in up to £60,000 pounds in one night at an upmarket casino in Cannes, on the French Riviera.

Describing himself as a ‘player and cheat with an international reputation’, Ampollini told a criminal court in nearby Grasse that he was proud of his ‘work’.

He used insiders at ‘Les Princes’ casino to mark cards with the invisible ink, and could then ‘read’ them using the contact lenses, which he bought in China for around £1,800.

Ampollini always sat opposite another accomplice, another Italian codenamed ‘The Israeli’, who sniffed or snorted to signal what cards Ampollini should choose.

The complicated scam enabled Ampollini to ‘control the game’ without being caught, he said.
Marc Concas, barrister for the owners of the casino, said: ‘Security found his behaviour rather strange as he won very easily and, above all, because he folded twice when he had an excellent hand, suggesting he knew the croupier’s cards.’
It was at this point that police were called, and detectives launched an immediate investigation along with casino staff.

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[GUMMO77]

Never play cards with a guy that has a cheese nic.

Never eat at an Asian restaurant with the word "Lucky" in it.

[DoYouNotGetIT]

Don't try this in Vegas I saw on one of those shows they have some kind of cameras that can do the predator thing to see if there is something on the cards. Most cheats do it in foreign countries or do it at Indian casinos.

Like Phil Ivey did in the UK.