to young to play

Hello,

I' living in the netherlands and am almost 17 yrs old.
Thus making me underaged for online poker, Does this have any hazards for me in any way what so ever?

My roll is almost 1000$ now and i heard they did checkups on cashout amounts of 1000$+. Is this true?

I doubt they're going to pick you out of the thousands/millions of poker players.

yea i wouldnt worry too much, but hey you never know...

my friends Jay and Jennifer have a son named, Junior. (actually its Jay, but we call him Junior) Junior is 4 years old and all ready knows how to play hold em. ok, he knows the basics of hit. he knows what hands are good and what arent, he knows what a flush, straight, and boat is. and just because hes a little a kid, you never think that he has anything. you dont want to reraise him, so you just call and end up losing a hand. he has lost a number of hands, but never with anything rags. hes lost a pot when he hit K on the flop because of his kicker. K/J vs K/Q.

once ive seen him play at a table with us, by himself. (his mom and dad were there, playing also, but they let him play on his own.) they gave him $5 in chips and through the course of the night he build it up to $60, which is pretty amazing.

lol..nothing to do with this thread, but i like the "too young to play" title.

BE CAREFUL ROEL, It's Unfortunate, but a lot of these sites will look for any and every reason to NOT pay you out! If you are under age and they are aware you will forfeit all winnings. And remember, the more you win, the deeper they dig.

Maybe it depends how you are withdrawing?? Are you putting it on a card, into a bank account or just asking for a check?? They might not check for certain things but yeah just becarefull 1k is a lot to have to let go.

If u are afraid, just ask ur father or mother to play in their name. If they are aware of u playing poker, then it's shouldn't be a problem.

I agree to be careful and if you are playing with your parents permission then there is no problem. God Luck with it=-)

If you have a checking account and can open a neteller account, that is the safest way to withdraw and move your money around...no credit cards, etc.

Hi all,
The only way the poker room has any reason to stop any winnings is if you've given them a reason, when you first sign up for a poker room you have to put your date of birth, obviously if you put your real date of birth there would be a problem, they will pick up on that when you try to cash out, assuming you've put a date of birth which makes you old enough there will be no reason to question it.
I've always deposited via netelller and that is proof enough so I don't get any hassle anywhere when it's time to cashout ( i'm way old enough anyway,lol )
but I have heard that some places require faxed documents like birth certificate etc.. to prove age and address, not sure about the poker rooms though, I only had that problem with casinos.
How did you deposit at the poker rooms? Or did you get this just on free money, you'll find they look into accounts a lot less that have made deposits.
Some places frown on people making money on free bonuses as they are only really put there to get people to try them out in the hope they will deposit their own money. Casinos are the worse for this, in the past i've had quite a few casino accounts locked for bonus abuse, simply because I made a lot of money on the freebie.

Tony ( The Webmaster )

How old do you have to be to play online. Some sites are 21 but I'm not sure if other sites are 18.

Most sites are 18. I think UB is 21.

I would recommend cashing out some of your bankroll, just to be safe. Keep a signifcant enough amount so you can still play within your limits, but you want to get some of those numbers out of the computer turned into hard cash in your hands.

They do not do any sort of checkups for cashouts over $1000. I promise. I've cashed a lot more then that and have never been checked or taxed.