Longtime Cheaters Caught Marking Cards in Texas Poker Room, Promptly Get Banned
Two poker cheats banned years ago from poker rooms in Florida and California were caught again this past week for being up to their old tricks in Texas.
The players, both with criminal records in Florida, are Norberto Pardo, 49, and Yaiquel Mosqueda-Perez, 43. Anthony Martino, a poker vlogger, knew of the poker cheats dating back to 2020 and recognized them at a neaby table recently at The Lodge Card Club in Round Rock, Texas.
Martino, as he explained in a YouTube video, alerted staff that Pardo and Mosqueda-Perez were known cheaters banned from other card rooms. The dealer removed the deck from a $1/$2/$5 pot-limit Omaha game they were in for inspection. After inspecting the deck, the staff determined the cards had been marked. PokerNews confirmed with The Lodge Card Club that both players were permanently banned from the establishment for marking cards.
Poker Cheats Have Been Doing This for Years
Martino first encountered the card-marking duo at Tampa Greyhound Track, a casino they're no longer legally permitted to visit. He said they had a "consistent" method to their scheme.
"We had these two Cuban players that sat in Seats 1 and Seat 6, diagonal from one another, and each of them was very consistent in which one was in Seat 1 and which one is in Seat 6," Martino said in his video.
He went on to claim that if another player had occupied Seat 1 or Seat 6, they would pay that player to move to another seat. The poker player then explained that he'd pick up on Pardo and Mosquedo-Perez were working together and that "they would signal one another and try to trap people in between them for raises."
A couple months went by in 2020 before Martino's "spidey senses" went off and he had what he refers to as a "Garrett Adelstein moment" where he realized cheating had occurred, much like Adelstein believed in 2022 on Hustler Casino Live when he accused Robbi Jade Lew of cheating him out of a six-figure pot.
One viewer of Martino's video commented that the cheating duo are also banned from rooms in Iowa and Illinois for collusion and marking cards. Martino also shared a screenshot in his video that showed the culprits had previously been banned from the popular bestbet Jacksonville card room, an annual home for the World Poker Tour (WPT).
Threats Made from Poker Cheats
Martino, after publicly outing the card markers, received threatening text messages from Pardo. One message read, "I'm just telling you, you fat mole, one day you and I will come face to face for slandering me, okay?"
Pardo was arrested in 2022 for grant theft (third degree) and possession of a controlled substance in Miami Dade County, Florida. Mosqueda-Perez, according to documents reviewed by PokerNews, is permanently excluded from all casinos in the state of Florida following a July 12, 2025 public hearing with the Florida Gaming Control Board (FGCB). An administrative complaint against Mosqueda-Perez had been filed in October 2024 with the FGCB.
Martino's goal in exposing the card markers is to get word out to the poker community in hopes that more poker rooms will ban them. It appears they simply move on to another casino each time they get banned.
*Feature image courtesy of Anthony Martino.
