It turned out to be a poker chip marked with a royal flush.

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"We don't want rural to be used as a poker chip in an election game, " said Ballinger administrator Lance Keilers.

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Focus instead on the lowly poker chip.

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Cyberonics' poker-chip-size device, surgically implanted in the chest, is approved for treating drug-resistant epilepsy and has moved into final-stage human tests for the far bigger market of drug-resistant depression.

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