According to a recent report, a group of poker players arrested for gambling in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, have asked to be judged by a jury in an attempt to change the state's 200-year-old law that prohibits card games and dice.

Of 22 individuals arrested during a police raid on a Texas Hold' em poker game in April, 18 have asked for a jury trial.

The other four defendants pleaded guilty and were fined by a local judge $100 each.

While the defendants claimed that the game was a friendly get-together, the authorities, which confiscated $6,000 in cash during the raid, were reported as saying that the house operated a high stakes poker facility.

No trial date has been scheduled.

Source:  Poker777 Staff

Thursday, 01 June 2006