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Local legislators want to fold video poker plans - 2004-01-13
With the General Assembly scheduled to reconvene today in Columbia, area legislators have renewed promises to fight any attempt to restore video poker in South Carolina.

That means they may have to deal with the Catawba Indian Nation's claim that it has the legal right to bring video poker to its reservation, even as others around the state have balked.

Video poker became illegal in South Carolina in 2000, but Charleston Sen. Robert Ford, D-Charleston, has proposed permitting dockside gambling and a return of legalized video poker to make money for cash-strapped state programs.
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Television Alters Poker, Will Improve It - 2004-01-13
Televising poker is changing the game, including the way top players approach it.

Poker's success has been apparent throughout recent events at the TV critics' press tour.

World Poker Tour on Wednesday nights on the Travel Channel “is our No. 1 series, ratings-wise,'' said one network executive. Travel is accordingly preparing for a second WPT season in March. World Poker Tour: Hollywood Home Game, featuring celebrity players, premieres on the Travel Channel on Jan. 25. And NBC will carry The Travel Channel World Poker Tour Battle of Champions on the afternoon of Feb. 1, Super Bowl Sunday.
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