The legal battle for poker of late has been centered round South Carolina. During the month of February, about five poker players were charged on being guilty of messing up with the state’s gambling laws. The defendants of this case are arguing over a few clauses in law, which have been in the law books ever since 1802. These clauses if read literally will cause, the complete banning of the cards or dice games, which will not be applicable to just poker but also to every kind of games played inclusive of dice games.
The latest poker trial in relation to the above cited case has marked the unusual and archaic law in existence in the state. Members of the South Carolina legislature and law makers of the state are fighting against substituting the law altogether.
State Sen. Glenn McConnell is working on a bill which is meant to legalize home based and charity based poker games in South Carolina.
The existing current law is out of date,” McConnell, a Republican informed a South Carolina newspaper. “It was written in another time, when the government had no business micromanaging people’s lives and the choice they make on the games that entertain them.”
The bill, when taken in terms of as it was written, will be legalizing private poker games for as long as there will be “no house player, house bank or house odds” and also it permits games which does not make any house income from organizing the games.
Is should be noted that the proposed bill has made its share of supporters already.
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