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South Carolina Shoots Down Social Poker Games
SOUTH CAROLINA: As reported by pokerpages.com: "The hopes of South Carolina residents being able to play poker legally this year were dashed, when the two Senate gambling bills which would
make 'social' poker games legal were contested during the final days of the legislative session, reports the Augusta Chronicle.
Despite receiving approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee mid May, the bills will not be readdressed until the next legislative session, which begins in January, according to Katherine Wells, a staff attorney with the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The current gambling law is over 200 years old, and bans "any game with cards or dice," including the game of poker. But read literally, it also bans popular board games such as Monopoly and Sorry, or Bunko, a popular dice game. In hearings around the state, there was significant support to revise the antiquated law..."