Poker Bill Moves Along

In South Carolina courts the question of legalizing social games of poker has passed one of many hurdles required to become law, as a subcommittee signs the bill in question and it is moved to the full Judiciary Committee this week. If so called kitchen table poker - a case in which the house does not take a cut from any fees to play the game - would be allowed, it would have prevented the arrest and fining of one Amelia Cheseborough, 79, who recently plead guilty and paid $50 in court costs after she was arrested as one of 22 players from an April poker game at a Mount Pleasant house.