But only for activities recreation area, on well. A long ban on games of poker in the state of South Carolina in the United States will be considered if the representative of the state Wallace Scarborough of Charleston can decide.

The legislature of the state wants to adapt the laws of gambling in South Carolina to allow poker games home and is currently preparing legislation to allow these games, if they go under “activities recreation area, on well.”

The bill, still in its initial state, would be part of an effort to update the laws of the state on gambling - aged over 200 years, which - according to some - even some technical prohibit society games like Monopoly very common!

Scarborough called the restrictions “ridiculous, because we live in a modern age.”

The project comes after a raid in Mount Pleasant that ultimately the prosecution of a man of 28 years to lead an institution of gambling. This man was found guilty in a deal that cost him $ 747 in fines and court costs, but allows him to avoid imprisonment, according to Associated Press.

The game at home this man named Stallings, had been warned on a website which has attracted other poker enthusiasts from across the Low Countries. Players have paid $ 20 to join the game, with a percentage of the profit attributed to the house.

Eighteen players were arrested in the raid applied for a jury trial, according to them to try to get rid of anti-poker in the state. A date has not yet been fixed for trial, said attorney Ira Grossman from Mount Pleasant.

Scarborough, whose bill has no relation to the case Stalling, said he knows that his remarks will meet much opposition, particularly from some of his other Republicans such regions of the state.

“There will be a million people who oppose it,” he says.

Scarborough also said that the key to execute the intent is to ensure that the law will not open the door to houses organized gambling. “This is not my goal or my intention,” he says.

The West Virginia Legislature has also gambling on their agenda, and will consider a vote across the state to legalize gaming at the track. The most recent project required that the four regions that have racetracks vote, but others do not want to be a universal suffrage in the state.