South Carolina Will Rule if Poker is a Game of Skill

South Carolina will be the latest state to determine if poker is a game of skill or game of chance.  After victories in Pennsylvania and Colorado, the poker community took it on the chin when a Western PA judge ruled that poker was "not a game of skill".

Now comes South Carolina where poker pro and World Series of Poker announcer, Mike Sexon, testifies that poker is indeed a "game of skill". 

20 poker players were arrested for hosting a game at a residence.  Five of those players are currently on bench trial before the honorable Municipal Court Judge J. Lawrence Duffy.

defendants' attorney Jeff Phillips will argue that Texas hold'em is a game of skill and therefore legal under South Carolina's centuries-old legislation, according to CardPlayer.com.  The law that the defendants are being tried on was originally written in 1802.

"The judge could do one of three things," said Phillips. "He could decide that poker is predominantly a game of chance and that the defendants are guilty. He could decide that it's a game of skill and that they are not guilty. Or he could decide that that's not the test that he's going to apply."

Ace King, Gambling911.com