8-Year-Old Wins $500,000 at Poker? 

Can He Keep It? 

Supposedly an 8-year-old computer genius in India has won approximately $500,000 in an on-line poker tournament, but obviously there are some legal issues with a boy that age winning at on-line poker. The gambling site (undetermined) refused to pay out the winnings, so now the case is in a New Delhi court.

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 had a number of smaller winnings paid into a legitimate on-line account set up for him by his uncle.