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…
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Poker lexicon:
- LITTLE SLICK - In Hold'em, hole cards of A-2, suited or not.
- BIG BOBTAIL - An open-ended 4-card straight flush.
- BIG BLIND - A blind bet, usually a raise of an earlier blind which would be called the SMALL BLIND. In limit poker, the BIG BLIND is usually the size of the minimum bet on the first round of betting.
- OUT - [1] A card that will improve your hand, often substantially. A hand with many OUTS is preferable to a hand with only 1 or 2. [2] Folded, ineligible to bet or win this hand. "I'm out" is often a synonym for "I fold".
- POSITION - One's location in the betting sequence, relative to the players still in the hand. First position is first to act.
- SPREAD LIMIT - A variation on fixed limit wherein the minimum and maximum bets are different. A 1-4-8 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds and 1-8 in the last round. A 1-4-8-16 game allows bets from 1 to 4 in the early rounds, 1 to 8 in the next-to-last round, and 1 to 16 in the last round.
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