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In April 2006, about 20 poker players were arrested when police in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, raided a weekly home poker game.The players were charged under South Carolina state statute 16-19-40 "Unlawful Games and Betting" which had been written and enacted by the South Carolina state legislature 204 years before, in 1802, during the first term of Thomas Jefferson's Presidency.
A 1753 law invalidated gambling debts of any amount, forbade gambling in public, and limited a gambler's losses to 40s in a day; [5] the cap was reduced to 5s in 1763. [6] In 1784, to raise revenue for the government, the anti-gambling law was repealed, and taxes were imposed of 8s per deck of playing cards and 10s per "box and dice". [7]
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Gaming control boards also have complete authority to grant or deny licenses to gaming establishments, their ownership, employees, and vendors. Generally, in order to obtain a license, an applicant must demonstrate that they possess good character, honesty and integrity. License application forms typically require detailed personal information.
Following King's Dec. 28 decision, Sanborn's charity casino license expired Jan. 1. Concord Casino operated on South Main Street in the same building as The Draft sports bar, which Sanborn owns.
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O'Brien, Timothy L. Bad Bet: The Inside Story of the Glamour, Glitz, and Danger of America's Gambling Industry (1998). Sallaz, Jeff. The labor of luck: Casino capitalism in the United States and South Africa (U of California Press, 2009). Thompson, William N. Gambling in America: An encyclopedia of history, issues, and society (Abc-Clio, 2001).