Slang names for poker hands
Many individual cards and hands have slang names in poker. Some examples:
- Dead Man's Hand: Also known as "aces and eights". Two pair, aces and eights, all cards black. This is the hand held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was shot and killed. The fifth card commonly reported to be the two of spades. This ominous hand is sometimes used as a portent of death in books and movies, including Stagecoach, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and Dick Tracy.
- Pink, All Pink: Flush of Hearts or Diamonds
- Blue, All Blue: Flush of Clubs or Spades
- Puppy Feet, Pups: Flush of Clubs
- One Jack Off: JJJxx
- Motown: JJ55x (Jacks and Fives, Jackson Five)
- Wheel: Ace to five low straight, also known as a Bicycle, or "The Name of the Game" in Bicycle.
- Steel wheel: Ace-to-five straight flush.
- Big Bobtail: An open ended 4 card straight flush.
- Boat: Short for Full Boat which means Full House, often declared as XXXs full of YYs, such as "Aces full of Jacks" where the hand is AAAJJ.
- Trips: Three of a kind
- Quads: Four of a kind
Specifically, in the pocket in Texas hold 'em (the "s" stands for American Airlines, Pocket Rockets, Bullets, Bulls
- A-Ks: Big Slick (sometimes this refers to any A-K)
- A-Q: Little Slick, Catch of the Day
- A-J: Blackjack, Ajax
- A-10: Johnny Moss, Corners
- A-5: Little Corners
- A-9: Not Spades
- A-8: Dead Man
- K-K: Cowboys
- K-J: Kojak
- Q-Q: Ladies, Siegfried & Roy, Snowshoes, four tits
- Q-4: B-Diddy
- Q-3: Gay Waiter, San Francisco Busboy ("Queen with a trey|tray")
- Q-3s: Posh Gay Waiter
- J-A: Jack Ass
- J-J: Fishhooks, Hooks, Jokers
- J-5: Jackson Five
- J-4: Flat tire ("What's a jack for?")
- 10-9(clubs): Mile Higher
- 10-4: Broderick Crawford, Good Buddy, Over and Out
- 10-2: Doyle Brunson
- 9-9: Barbara Feldon
- 9-8: Oldsmobile
- 9-5: Dolly Parton
- 8-8: Snowmen
- 7-7: Walking Sticks, Sunset Strip
- 7-2: Beer Hand
- 7-2 offsuite: Deadly Tedd Lee
- 7-2 suited: Prom night Teddy Lee
- 6-9: Big Lick, Porno
- 6-9s: Prom Night ("Sixty-nine suited")
- 6-6: Route 66
- 6-3: Blocky
- 5-10: Woolworth
- 5-5: Presto, Speed Limit
- 4-7: Forty-seven
- 4-5: Jesse James Colt 45
- 4-4: Sailboats
- 3-A: Baskin-Robbins
- 3-9: Jack Benny
- 3-8: Raquel Welch
- 3-3: Crabs
- 2-J: Lindsey's Lovers
- 2-9: Twiggy
- 2-2: Ducks
In the hole in Omaha hold'em:
Including the board, in Omaha hold 'em:
See also: Poker jargon
