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Poker chips get advertised as Father’s Day gifts in sporting goods stores. TV shows with play-by-play tournaments are beamed into living rooms. Nationally, the poker craze is everywhere.

But in South Carolina, hosting a kitchen-table card game might still bring the police knocking on your front door with a warrant.

Friday’s decision by a Mount Pleasant judge not to dismiss aging gambling charges against five “Texas Hold ‘em” players continues a legal saga that appears to have no end in sight. Even the group’s lawyer predicts it could be another two years before the matter runs its course, an estimate based on the hope of getting the case scheduled for trial and the likely appeals that will follow.

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