South Carolina Takes Second Look at Poker

When North Carolina fought its war against video poker machines, it could have been paralleled with the struggle South Carolina had over poker in general, but it seems that SC might ease up on poker, at least as a "recreational activity". State Representative Wallace Scarborough of Charleston wants to reexamine the longtime ban on poker playing in hopes of updating the state's 200-year-old gaming laws - some of which outlaw games like Monopoly. If Scarborough gets his way, private home games of poker would no longer come under the eye of SC police.