A legal poker ruling in the state of South Carolina is going to be challenged by the state’s Attorney General. This challenge stems from a 2006 poker game that was being played at a home in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The group of men playing poker were actually playing a regular low-stakes poker game in the home. During the game local police officers burst into the home and arrested all the men taking part in the game, citing the state’s archaic gaming laws that outlaw any games with cards or dice. Many of the men arrested cut their losses and paid the fines but a handful of players decided to take on the state.

In October of 2009, roughly three years after their initial arrest, the men who battled the state’s ruling were cleared of any wrongdoings. But now an appeal has been submitted to the state Supreme Court of South Carolina by the state’s Attorney General. The Poker Players Alliance stepped in as soon as the players were arrested in 2006 and convinced the players to argue that poker playing is skill and not gambling, which would not fall under the gambling laws of the state of South Carolina.

“Simply put, [the law], as written, has the potential to make criminals of virtually every man, woman, and child in the state of South Carolina,” said Judge Markely Dennis in the ruling. The Attorney General, Henry McMaster, does not agree with Dennis’ ruling and has instead submitted an appeal to the state Supreme Court that is 57 pages in length. The date for the hearing has yet to be announced.