8-year-old wins $500,000 at poker … can he keep it?

Mar 15
09:47

2010

Mia  Kingstone

Mia Kingstone

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Supposedly an 8-year-old computer genius in India has won approximately $500,000 in an online poker tournament,8-year-old wins $500,000 at poker … can he keep it? Articles but obviously there’s some legal issues with a boy that age winning at online poker. The gambling site (undetermined) refused to pay out the winnings, so now the case is in a New Delhi court. Get Price Per Head’s wagering software for your poker room and be ahead of the game.

The boy’s name is Aashish Nanak, who began using computers at age 3 to keep busy while his mother worked cleaning a local hotel.

“Aash has always loved the internet and computers he started his own web pages when he was only four years old, he is a very clever boy,” Mrs. Nanak said.

Obviously the poker site is saying he wasn’t old enough to play poker, but Aashish apparently played under his uncle’s account and family lawyers are arguing that it doesn’t say anywhere on the site that that isn’t allowed. Apparently the boy did have a number of smaller winnings paid into a legitimate online Paypal account set up for him by his uncle.

By the way, the average salary of a worker in Indian is about $1,740 yearly, so this would set this family up for life. Look for a settlement to happen here because the poker site would get a mess of negative publicity otherwise.

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