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[CardShark237]

A online poker website automatically entered people into this freeroll if they met certain requirements (new player that had atleast 900 FPP points) I was one of them. There were 1,417 entrants, and the first prize was a seat at the WSOP. Well I made it to heads up play, and i had about a 3-1 chip lead on the guy and my dad told me I had to throw the game. Because due to my age, I wouldn't be able to go to the WSOP and then it wouldn't be fair to the other player. This SERIOUSLY KILLED me, I mean I had played for 6 and a half hours up to that point playing some good poker, and all of the sudden I have to throw the match and get nothing for second? Well I ended up having to fold every hand, and the other guy one. If you guys don't believe me that is fine with me, but if ANYONE watched the heads up match they could tell you what I was doing. So anyway, how is that for a change, I get screwed AGAIN because of my age. I felt like never playing poker agian, because my dad said either throw the match or I would be banned from online poker. Although I am glad the other guy got to go, all the observers were saying how bad I was getting owned, only because I had to throw the match, and that made me mad. It's bad enough to lose a seat at a 10,000 WSOP event (I had two chances where the guy was all-in and I KNOW I had him but had to fold). Anyway, would there have been any way I could have got the prize and like sold my seat or something, or just gotten into trouble by the site?

[custom36]

No, the website would have told you that you can't go. They would have revoked your seat and nobody would have gotten to go. Your dad did the right thing and I think you're being a real assclown for complaining about it. Legal gambling age: 21, except in select states (Such as Minnesota). If I were the other guy and you had won and I found out you were underage, I'd be really p.issed off about it.

[CardShark237]

Are you serious? You think I am being a little jerk about it. Okay well now put yourself in my shoes. the most cash I have ever had in my wallet is around 250 dollars..... that tourny was for 10,000 seat + 2,000 spending money while i'm in Vegas. How about this one...... grinding it out playing really tight for 7 hours then hafting to throw the game? Before you say comments like that, think about what your saying.

[custom36]

Listen kid, I know exactly what I'm saying. I'm saying do your goddamn homework before playing in a tournament. This is ridiculous.

[allinbluff35]

quit bitching, you shouldn't have been playing in the tournament then

[custom36]

By the way, I didn't call you a jerk. I called you an assclown. There's a difference.

[CardShark237]

I love it, your jealous because you didn't even know what poker was when you were a kid, and you don't even realize how dissapointing this is. I don't have a job, I make 5 dollars a week in allowance, I am pretty sure that tourny meant a lot to me.

[allinbluff35]

CardShark237 said:

I love it, your jealous because you didn't even know what poker was when you were a kid, and you don't even realize how dissapointing this is.  I don't have a job, I make 5 dollars a week in allowance, I am pretty sure that tourny meant a lot to me.

good for you kid, you didn't have a chance of playing in the WSOP anyway

[custom36]

CardShark237 said:

I love it, your jealous because you didn't even know what poker was when you were a kid, and you don't even realize how dissapointing this is.  I don't have a job, I make 5 dollars a week in allowance, I am pretty sure that tourny meant a lot to me.

Jealous? Why am I jealous? Because I'm not a punk ass kid that think the world owes it to him to gamble underage? I don't care what that tournament meant to you, you had no business in it. You have no business even playing since you're underage. I know what it's like to be dissapointed as a kid, but since you didn't do your homework and they didn't quickly change the rules on you, you have no business bitching about the fact that your dad made you follow the law and not be a douchebag by taking that guy's seat away from him.

[CardShark237]

Taking his seat away from him? I outplayed him, he came into heads up with more chips and i dominated him. Anyway, what if "that guy" was a kid just like me? Seriously is there ANY friendly people on this site?

[custom36]

CardShark237 said:

Taking his seat away from him?  I outplayed him, he came into heads up with more chips and i dominated him.  Anyway, what if "that guy" was a kid just like me?  Seriously is there ANY friendly people on this site?

1) Yeah, taking his seat away from him. He was the best player that could've attended the tournament. Thus, his seat.2) If he's a kid, he's an assclown too.3) I'm friendly, just not to people like you.

[Swift_Psycho]

I don't understand why you bothered to waste your time playing in the tourney at all. Spend that time playing in cash games or something. You knew from the start that you weren't going to be able to go even if you won, so why waste your time with it? Did you expect a miraculous exception to be made for you if you won?

[custom36]

Swift_Psycho said:

You knew from the start that you weren't going to be able to go even if you won

No he didn't. Try again.

[Swift_Psycho]

Custom36 said:

Swift_Psycho said:

You knew from the start that you weren't going to be able to go even if you won

No he didn't. Try again.

I don't see why he wouldn't. He didn't go from being over 21 to miraculously under somehow during the tourney did he?

[custom36]

As I had said 2 times before this, he didn't do his homework.

[Swift_Psycho]

Custom36 said:

As I had said 2 times before this, he didn't do his homework.

Meh, my statement that you criticised was going with the assumption that the OP had some common sense. I was merely saying that any person with some wouldn't have bothered with the tourney because he would have known that he wasn't 21.I wouldn't think any "homework" would be needed to be done to realize your own age.

[CardShark237]

Oh thats what you meant by not doing my homework? That makes more sense, i thought you were making fun of me because I am a student so I have homework. Now I see. Anyways, I thought that I would be able to sell my seat or something (Well really I didn't think I could win it cause there were 1400 people) but I guess I couldn't sell it. Now had I put my account name as my dad's name instead of me I could've played it out and won it and he coulda gone.

[JohnnyCache]

For future reference, even if you had won, and could have transferred the seat, you probably would have simply had your prize revoked - an award of that value, they do a bit a homework on the winner, and file tax paperwork, iirc (I don't actually know if given online sites do this as they are offshore for most players). There is no way you could have sat in the WSOP underage - at best you could have faked your way in and had any money you won taken away from you at the cage. Sorry bro, that's a heartbreaker.

[NeedAJoker]

Honestly grat job getting that far, but you shouldnt have been in the tourny to begin with. Im only 20, and I live in vegas, but I still wouldnt waste my time in a tourny i knew i couldnt reap the benefits from. If you look at it this way at least you can take away the fact that you know you had the skills/luck to take down a 1400 person tourny which is by no means an easy task so congrats on that and just consider it more education for when you turn 21, thats what i do.Kevin

[CardShark237]

Thanks a lot guys for your last two posts. While I REALLY didn't think i had a shot at it, but it automatically registered me and i played it while i was already playing SNGs and stuff also. Then sooner or later i got into first place and to the final table, then final two... and ya. Well ya I am gonna stick to NON-satelit tournys now. Thank you for your advice guys.