It's generally not a good idea to gamble in a casino when under age. If you get caught, best case they keep your money and worst case you're headed to jail.

Obviously, niether option is +EV.

My wife and I have been carded walking into casinos and we're (well) over 30. They don't just glance at the ID; they pour over 'em.

I'll second BigPhish's statements and say that I have been stopped a number of times to have my ID checked while walking through the slots areas and into the card room at Foxwoods. They are very cordial about it and give you an easy way to stop it (by getting stamped at the security counter) - but I would not rely on getting through there without a valid id.

A Fake ID is something I personally wouldn't go for - mostly because now you are showing intent to do something illegal (without the id you could feign some ignorance - but again, not much...). Personally, I would suspect this puts you in a different class of person that gets arrested (not that I have been myself, so this is pure speculation).

Foxwoods is not going anywhere, so brush up on your abilities in your home games and keep things low key for now.

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I think you should stick to online and home games til you hit 21. I dont know the laws in Connecticut but in California getting caught with a fake ID is a big deal, when I was 19 a couple of my friends and I got fake Id's one of them got caught with it trying to get into a club, the cops were called and he was given a $400 citation for something like intent to defraud. Take it that was 8 years ago my guess is the penalty is stiffer.

I am 26 and I rarely get carded but still the risk exists, if you happen to win a jackpot hand they ask for social secrutiy # and more ID, the risk just isn't worth the reward. There will still be plenty of action in a couple years when you are legal.

As for question about tells, I play home games with some good players and what I do is ask them if they can pick up tells on me, since the games are relatively low limit, most of the time they will tell me. Another good way to figure out your tells is everytime you pick something up on someone else try to see if you do this in the same situation.

A good example of this, a good player I was playing with at 2/5 in MGM, raises from the SB preflop, this has to mean he has a real hand. Flop comes AKK, he checks, as the flop came down he make an unhappy face and body motion. Now I know this guy is good enough that he could have killed the flop and be acting or he could have QQ -10's and really not be happy. The UTG makes a solid bet here, SB thinks and calls. Turn is another king, again SB checks, UTG bets $60 this time, SB calls. River is a 4. SB now takes his time and thinks for a while. Ding Ding Ding bells are now going off in my head, the river has no beaing on this hand, he has to have the K and is acting. He bets out $100 and gets called by a draw A. He has AK and the nuts. So what is important about this?? Well obviously I now know more about this player, that always helps, but it also made me look at my own play. Do I do the same thing out of postion with a monster?? I think I do, thinking back at my play and the next time I am in the same postion, I will play fast in order to not give off the same tell I saw in this player.