Marked cards - video juice system

Marked Cards - Video Juice System

A high-tech marked-cards scam used mostly in private card games to cheat at poker. This video shows a deck of cards that has been marked with a special substance that is visible only under a special video camera. The video was shot with two different cameras positioned side-by-side and running simultaneously. The image on the left was shot with a regular camera, and the image on the right with a specially modified one. The game dealt in this demo video is 7-card stud. It is clear that all the cards might as well be dealt face up. If the game was Texas Hold'Em, and the 5 community cards were dealt out face down at the beginning (rather than after each betting round and using burn cards) then the cheats know who has the highest ranking hand before the first betting round. Such decks are most often used in after-hours clubs, private homes, and crooked card rooms. The scam requires a special setup operated by a small team of people. A typical setup consists of a hidden video camera (or a camera that masquerades as a security camera), a 4-head VCR with frame-by-frame playback capability, a video monitor, and a wireless communication system. The scam is ran by three people working together. The guy at the card table does not make any playing decisions; he is just a puppet player who only acts as instructed through secret signals. The actual player (i.e. the one that actually makes the playing decisions) is seated in another room watching the game on a monitor and probably sipping on a beer. He records the deal and immediately plays it back, frame-by-frame whenever necessary. Since the cards are boldly marked across the backs their values can be easily seen even at a distance. He then uses a wireless communication device to signal the playing decisions to the third guy who is standing in the room and apparently not taking place in the game. This guy now signals the puppet player whether to fold, call, or raise (for example arms crossed means fold; scratch chin means call, and scratch nose means raise). According to one of my sources such systems currently sell for $20,000 on the black market, provided that one knows where to buy it. The system that I used for this demo video is one that I developed myself. In other words I did not spend 20 G's to for a ready made one; instead I spend a considerable amount of time (and money, come to think of it) doing experiments. However, even if the system I used is not the actual one sold on the black market I have no reason to believe that it is any different from it. This system is not to be confused with the well-known luminous readers, that uses faint green ink and a red filter. The green ink that most people try to make for luminous readers can actually be seen without a red lens, and if it is diluted enough to be invisible to the naked eye it turns out to also be undetectable through a red filter. The substance used to mark the video juice cards is completely invisible to the human eye. In order for the video system to work one must use a very specific substance as ink, and a specially modified video camera. The substance that is used to make the ink is actually extremely expensive (about $100,000 per pound in powder form, no kidding) and is usually sold in very small quantities. I was only able to afford a pinch the size of a droplet of water, literally; and only because I was lucky enough to find a distributor that was good enough to sell this small amount to me. Some other distributors did not budge from their $5000 or $10,000 minimum order policy. Also note that the above-mentioned price is not the inflated price tag associated by crooked gambling supply dealers. This substance is made for another application altogether. The distributor who was good enough to sell that small amount to me had no idea what I was intending to use it for. I just told him it was for some experiments. The marking substance is only half of the story - the other half is the video camera. The camera is specially