Bill Introduced to Legalize Home Poker in South CarolinaPoker Games Would Be Legal if They Don't Charge Rake |
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Of course, South Carolina hasn’t been breaking up any Monopoly games lately, but the recent poker trial has put the spotlight on the unusual and archaic law. Now, some South Carolina legislators are fighting to replace that law altogether. State Sen. Glenn McConnell has introduced a bill that would, among other things, legalize home and charity poker games in the state of South Carolina.
“The (current) law is antiquated,” McConnell, a Republican who also serves as the senate president pro tem of the state, told the Post and Courier, a South Carolina newspaper. “It was written in another time, and government has no business micromanaging people's lives and the choice they make on the games that entertain them.”
The bill, as written, would legalize private poker games as long as “no house player, house bank or house odds exist, and where there is no house income from the operation of the game.”
The proposed bill has already earned its fair share of supporters.
“We’re tired of the fact that in your own private home you can’t play poker,” State Sen. Robert Ford, a Democratic supporter of the bill, told Charleston’s ABC affiliate. “We think you should be able to do anything in your castle, which is your home.”
It’s not the first time a bill has been introduced to legalize home poker games in the state. According to the Post and Courier, a similar bill died in committee once it garnered the opposition of upstate conservatives.
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