The card pictured here, according to @Andy_Bloch, was actually in use and in play at his table during today\’s $5,000 NLH-Shootout.
Hmm, despite what some Batfaces may contend after a particularly good home-game run in 2005-06, I don\’t know enough about card-marking systems to tell if these scuffs are a matter of defective product or an overzealous cheater. I\’d tend to think the former — when you use a bajillion decks, there\’s gonna be a bad one in there — but this pic is not the first murmur of marked cards at the 2009 WSOP.
But usually it\’s in the high buy-in mixed games where the dangers occur (and floormen are operating on high alert). For example, smudges and nail marks were reportedly found on decks in the $10k 2-7NL-1D (won by Phil Ivey), where at least one specific player was targeted for enhanced interrogations intensified scrutiny.