After 200 years a republican lawmaker decides it is time to update South Carolinas gambling laws to allow people to have home poker games.
The bill is still in its early stages of being drafted but the goal is to bring South Carolinas laws up to the year 2007. as the law sits now card and dice games are technical all illegal, meaning even games like monopoly, a game almost every child around the world has played could land you in jail if the law was enforced.
The bill would allow friends to gather in someone’s home for a game of poker. Players would be allowed to bet and win real money, but can not charge others to come and play, this would still be illegal.
The young lawmaker decided the laws needed to be changed after he arrest of 28 people who were arrested when the police raided the home of a local man who was running a poker game in his house. The homeowner was charged with an almost $800 dollar fine after pleading guilty to running an illegal gambling establishment, but no jail time was given to him. Several of those arrested insisted to a trial by jury, in hopes of showing the ridiculousness of these laws.
"The new law is not intended to allow casinos to start opening shop in our state, just to allow adults to have a little fun in their homes with friends without the worries of having the police raid you home" said the republican law maker.
