I just turned 18, can I now legally play for money?

I just turned 18, can I now legally play for money or can I now legally play for fun. I just want to make sure before I try and put $150 in that when I try to cash out they say I'm to young. Does being 18 simply mean that I would be ineligible to enter satellite tournaments to win real tourney seats?

Uhhh...where are you? Country? State?

Online you will be able to, but in a B&M casino in the States, you will not be able til until you're 21

So there should be no problems cashing out in the US (i live in texas)?

Why don't you email support at the various sites you play on? And let us know what you hear from them.

Welcome to Cardschat!

You can play and cashout online. I've never heard what happens when someone 18-20 wins a live seat but I would just stay away from live seat satellites.

Ya stay away from live satellites cuz nothing really good can come out of them. But ya 18 is legal to play online so goodluck

No you cannot play 'legally' online in the U.S. (None of us can.) But when you try to cash out you will not run into any trouble, they do not take age into account. I have been playing and cashing out since I was 16.

You can play online and cash out when you're 18. If you win a live seat that is played in the US then you need to be 21 to play but I think they just credit you with the money in most cases if you are not old enough. You can win a live seat for Europe and play it as it is 18 years of age to play live here.

Check the TOS on the site you play and the laws in your local state. I think many of the online sites state that you need to be legal in your local jurisdiction.

Welcome to CC

over here in europe you will have no problems playing live or online but in the states as I understand it you can play online just not in the casinos untill you are 21

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In the states you can... except for a few, I can't remember which... but anyways, I started playing poker online when I was 18... fun but dangerous, I think its tough to be mature enough at 18 to really play poker, the people that do it turn out amazing at the game though. Everyone else (including myself) are only fair micro players or donkeys.

Well I would not advise running out and putting money or making a deposit on any site, untill you have played and practiced and are sure of your game. There are many playchips games to give you experience. And before you join any site you might also want to consider rakeback. Happy birthday.

You do know that you don't get rakeback on play chips, right? lol. Actually, until you have money on a site, I would advise against signing up for rakeback, because you will get negative rackback for every freeroll you play(which will likely be a ton) and then by the time you do finally get some kind of roll, you won't be getting any rakeback anyway for quite some time. Instead, when you're joining a new site, just make sure your account isn't linked to any affiliates(just download directly from that specific site instead of going through a link that you clicked on from another site) and you will probably be able to get rakeback linked to your account later on down the road when you have a roll.

It is not illegal to play online poker in the US.

OnT: depends on the governing rules of your city and state.. or country if your overseas.. i mean, out of the us...

Thanks everyone for your help, I went with pokerstars and im already up $200

BTW, you can also play live legally in the US at many casinos that are on Indian land.

Not in Washington State. 100% illegal.

Yea I wouldn't play in any WSOP qualifiers if I were you lol. Waste of your time. Great part about online poker is playing at 18.

Even most Indian casinos have changed their age limit to 21.

This is true most everywhere in the states is 21 although there are exceptions.

In Wa state you can play in "mini-casinos"

In Florida you can play at 18 , but you don't qualify for the jackpots and tournaments .

In the UK, you can Poker, Online Casinos etc etc legally since you've turned 18

I live in ft. worth ,,,, not sure how it works online because i'm 65 years old ,,,, but you can play at Winstar Casino on the texas and OK border.
Their age is 18 or older.
take care

You can play cards and go to casinos at the age of 18 in most of the USA!!! I prefer brick and mortar over online play myself.

Absolutely incorrect. The age is 21 with some exceptions.

Please let me know the name of some. I have visited all the casinos in Louisiana and Mississippi and you have to be 21 to walk through the doors.

Two of the Indian casinos that are close to me here in Ohio are Turning Stone in NY and Soaring Eagle in Michigan. Both you only need to be 18 to play in their poker rooms. Now fortunately (or unfortunately) I am well past 18, LOL, so I am not limited to the Indian casinos but I do have a friend who is a very very good player who is only 18 and we made a trip to Turning Stone this past summer. We had a good time as he met two other friends who are also under the age of 21 there. All 3 very good players and well above me level of play.

Pssstt.... psssttt.... Absoluthamm........ its been since May.... when ya gonna update the blog?

Haha, yea, I need to. Maybe today. Time has gotten away from me and just about any real free time I've had(except for the time for my tiny posts here that is ) has been playing poker. I've got some free time right now so maybe I'll try to get something up. I want to keep it more updated, but sometimes it's hard to find things to write besides..."Yep, won 3 BI's tonight" or "Yep, lost 3 BI's tonight" lol.

It depends on your state rules. If you are in Virginia, for example, you can play online but if your playing a satelleite tourny to Las Vegas, you would be unable to play, because Las Vegas's age limit is 21.

Totally understand absoluthamm... just enjoy reading it when you get around to posting.

Posted yesterday but then forgot to post my graphs last night, mainly becaus I was having some computer issues and by the time I figured them out, I forgot .

Realy freerolls will give you neagative rackback balance?.

yep. I just replied to your PM with the details.