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HEADLINE: $500K Online Poker Tournament Won By 8 Year Old

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An 8 year old child from India is in trouble with an online poker room for winning over 22 million rupees ($500,000) in an online poker tournament. The facts regarding this development are unclear, but the child is Aashish Nanak and he is regarded as a computer genius. He was first introduced to computers at the age of 3, starting building webpages at 4, and he began playing online poker when he turned 6. He has now been playing poker over the Internet for 2 years.

The name of the online poker room has yet to be revealed, but the rumor is tht the poker room is refusing to payout the winnings because the boy was not of a legal age to play online poker. The boy was playing online poker by using his uncle’s account. Lawyers for the family feel that the child should be compensated because their are no terms or conditions that would restrict Aashish from playing poker using his uncle’s account. The average salary in India is less than $2000 per year, so you can imagine what it would be like to receive over $500,000 while living in India.

If an 8 year old boy can win over $500,000 playing in online poker tournaments, it really makes you wonder how smart some of the professional poker players really are. Everyone has regarded poker professionals as incredibly skilled at playing the game, but even an 8 year old can win.

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