Poker Helps Settle Score in Politics

In the state of New Mexico they have a tradition that a game of chance will be used to serve as a tie breaker in elections. Over the last decade this has been done three times, with the latest happening just recently in Estancia, New Mexico. The candidates for Town Trustee, Josie Richards and Michelle Dunlap, played a game of poker that lasted one hand to decide who would win the seat. Five-Card Stud was the game, and Richards' pair of nines won out over an ace high hand.