A 12-year-old boy was caught red handed cheating at online poker last week when police officers raided his home in Tianjin, China. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was reported to the authorities over a month ago by his own parents who had started to get suspicious when their son booked a trip for the whole family to Las Vegas. It didn't take long before they found out that he had e[...] Read more » Online Poker Cheater Reported To The Police - By His Parents!
Joined: Mar '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 55 (M)
Posts: 7371
I am very dubious about this story {it is April 1st after all}. If it is true then they should think about making a film about this because it sounds amazing.Still have my doubts but i hope its true
Its aprils fools of course. Still I had wished for a minute that next he'll build a time machine with spare parts of iphones from the foxconn factories. There is nothing more romantic than ruling spacetime from your garage.
Joined: May '13
Location: Mauritius
Age: 32 (M)
Posts: 2688
lol those Chinese people are weird, they should have let their son continue to play the poker games maybe he would have been the next Stu lol. Anyway nice piece of news and we can see how strict education is in China and parents too. Anyway that kid gonna be a legend and thank god he is minor or he will be arrested hope he uses his skills in a good way!
Joined: Jan '12
Location: Tunisia
Age: 31 (M)
Posts: 664
It's truly weird to hear about an underage chinese who is cheating in poker and what makes me looling is that his parents told the police about his cheating after he booked a trip for them to Las Vegas ! This guy is a genious ! keep going kid but don't sit at the same table as me
Joined: May '08
Location: Canada
Age: 48 (M)
Posts: 1017
even if its not true,I almost never sit at a table with a player from china,just never know,I will actually watch there play before I play at that table.
Joined: Mar '12
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 40 (M)
Posts: 1277
Fuckin April fools s**t EVERYWHERE. Although it would not surprise me if this were real. Surely someone somehwere has to be doing this sort of stuff. The trick is not getting caught and greedy - nearly impossible for any human.
Joined: Feb '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 59 (M)
Posts: 5712
I don't get it! What isso foolishr remarkable about people cheating at online poker? Yeh I get the twist with it being a kid wo treated his parents to a Vegas trip, but what is really so surprising about people cheating at online poker?
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Portugal
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 4827
Parents only got "suspicious" by having the 12 year old son booking trip for all the family to Vegas? Wow, i don't know what i should write about this. If i consider it too much for a 12 year old kid, some of you may call me antique, if i criticize his parents others can say they just act acording to the law. That just happened in my country when we had a dictator rulling... but i don't know if we already have 12 year old kids with enough capabilities to get enough money online to pay a trip for 3 or 4 to Vegas. We have the technology, but i don't know about the brains...
Posted by Fakiry: Parents only got "suspicious" by having the 12 year old son booking trip for all the family to Vegas? Wow, i don't know what i should write about this. If i consider it too much for a 12 year old kid, some of you may call me antique, if i criticize his parents others can say they just act acording to the law. That just happened in my country when we had a dictator rulling... but i don't know if we already have 12 year old kids with enough capabilities to get enough money online to pay a trip for 3 or 4 to Vegas. We have the technology, but i don't know about the brains...
Dude chill out, read the previous posts. This was a work of fiction, it appeared on 1st of April.
Btw in real life no chinese authority would struck down on this kid, they would simply confiscate his device, made a million copy of it and putting all of them up on ebay for 5 bucks. They would ship right out from Hongkong with surface mail.
Joined: Apr '11
Location: Romania
Age: 35 (M)
Posts: 6669
I do not think the news is true, i mean not that the parents decided to turn him in but i do not think that from some old parts you can create such a device...
You need to have acces to the site servers to see hole cards or to have a spybot in your opponent pc!
