Holdem Poker Hole Pair Names
If you have played more than a few hands of Texas Hold’em Poker you have probably already heard of “Big Slick”, “Pocket Rockets” and the “Dead Man’s Hand”.
But if you don’t want to look like a wood duck at the table you had better study up on a few more of the slang names poker players use for hole pairs in Texas Hold’em.
*=any single, o=offsuit, r=red, b=black, c=clubs, d=diamonds, h=hearts, s=spades or suited
A* – Bullet(s) (looks like a bullet, possibly a reference to the Dead Man’s Hand, two pair of aces and eights, suggesting that Wild Bill drew a third bullet in the back, which filled his hand in death)
A* – MasterCard (the best card of its suit)
A* – Rocket(s) (looks like rockets)
A* – Seed(s) (???)
A* – As-Nas (the persian game from which some think poker is derived, which is probably a french mis-spelling for Az-Nas, “my beloved Ace”)
A* – Bull(s) (???)
A* – Eye(s) (probably from snake eyes in dice)
A* – Sharp Toy(s) (or sharp tops, sharp on top, see also A4)
A* – Spike (spiked on top)
A* – Spot (all numbered cards are spots, 5-spots, etc, and an ace is a one-spot, or just spot)
A* – Tee Pee(s) (looks like tee pees)
Ac – Puppyfoot (looks like one)
Ad – Pigs Eye (???)
A-A – Pocket Rockets (looks like rockets)
A-A – Alan Alda (an alliteration, star of Mash)
A-A – Eyes of Texas (from the Elvis Presley song, probably an elaboration on dice)
A-A – Needles (looks like needles)
A-A – Rat’s Eyes (an elaboration from dice?)
A-A – Snake Eyes (from dice)
A-A – Sticks (looks like sticks)
A-A – Albert Anastasia (first mob boss killed gangland style in 1957, as per clevelandrounder on RGP)
A-A – Rocky Mountains (looks like mountains, from Mat Rampson)
ArAr – American Airlines (if both red, because the logo is red)
ArAr – Visine (if both red, two red eyes, it gets the red out, from Gary Phillips on RGP)
AsAc – Joe Louis (two black eyes, what you will get in the ring if you fight Joe Louis, from Gary Phillips on RGP)
AsAc – Banditerna (swedish for “the Bandits”)
A-K – Big Slick (???, if same suit = Big Slick in a Suit)
A-K – Santa Barbara (due to a big oil spill off Santa Barbara)
A-K – Walking Back to Houston (gamblers who played this hand too strongly were often left with no getaway money)
AdKd – Mike Haven (Mike played two pre-flops all-in in a row with these cards to win the final table, coming from behind.)
AdKd – Barry Greenstein (from 5th annual JBWPO in Tunica MS, as per Hooter Huon)
AsKs – Exxon Valdez (if both spades, The Valdez created a big black oil slick in Alaska, as per Peder Jakobsen on RGP)
A-Q – Big Chick (imitating Big Slick)
A-Q – Anthony & Cleopatra (A & Queen)
A-Q – Big Trick (vulgar, reference to big slick, as per coninthian420 in RGP in 2004)
A-Q – Mrs Buttersworth (???)
A-Q – Not According to Doyle (because he never plays this hand, see also T2. Doyle was the first player to win $1 million in tour)
A-J – Ajax (Ace Jacks)
A-J – Arctic Highway (???)
A-J – Foamy Cleanser (ajax)
A-J – Jack Ass (jack ace)
A-Jo – Ace Jackoff (if offsuit, from Bachelor Hand, sounds like a starship pilot, as per Paramecium on RGP)
AbJb – Black Jack (if both black, from 21)
A-T – Bookends (both ends of a top straight)
A-T – Johnny Moss (???, Poker hall of fame, won the WSOP in 70, 71 and 74)
A-9 – Rounders Hand (from the movie)
A-9 – Driving the Truck (from the movie, Rounders, as per Jay DeucesUp on RGP)
A-9o – Chris Ferguson (Chris has been said to look like Jesus and used an A9 twice to win the 2000 WSOP)
A-9o – Jesus (see Chris Ferguson)
Ac9c – McDerment (if both clubs, Matt Damon lost all his money with this in the movie Rounders, as per clevelandrounder on RGP)
A-8 – Dead Man’s Hand (Wild Bill Hickok was holding aces and eights when he was shot in the back by Jack McCall in the M)
A-7 – Red Barron (Sven, the Flying Ace)
A-6 – Mile High (the Flying Ace and sex, or Airplane and Sex)
A-5 – High Five (Ace “high five”)
A-4 – Amen (pronounced Ah-men, the traditional ‘amen’ cadence in church music is IV to I)
A-4 – Sharp Tops (these two cards both have sharp tops)
A-4 – Filipino Aces (derogatory misreading of two sharp tops)
A-4 – Transvestite (because you anticipated a second Ace, but were quite disappointed when you looked closely)
A-4o – Crashing Airlines (because peeking at the corners, sometimes people mistake a 4 for an A, as per The Beet Man on RGP)
A-3 – Baskin Robbins (31 Flavors)
A-3 – Ashtray (imitates Ace-trey)
A-2 – Acey-Duecy (from the game, as per b_add9 on RGP)
A-2 – Hunting Season (A Bullet and a Duck)
A-2 – Shocker (possibly from the band AC/DC which sounds like AceDuece, and their album, Shocker)
A-2 – Arizona (AZ, Z looks like a 2)
A-2 – Big Balls (if you raise with it, song by AC/DC which sounds like AceDuece, as per Bill Henderson)
A-2 – Highway to Hell (if you call with it, song by AC/DC which sounds like AceDuece, as per Bill Henderson)
A-2 – Problem Child (if you make a pair of aces, song by AC/DC which sounds like AceDuece, as per Bill Henderson)
A-2 – The Candlestick (???, as per Supe and friends on RGP)
Ab2r – Shocker (sexual reference, two fingers in the front and a pinky in the back is called a shocker)
Ab2b – Back in Black (if both black, song by AC/DC which sounds like AceDuece, as per Bill Henderson)
K* – Cowboy(s) (starts with K sound)
K* – Man (because a king is a man)
K* – Ace Magnet(s) (because they draw out aces to beat you)
K* – Gorilla(s) (from King Kong)
K* – K-Boy(s) (Starts with K)
K* – King Kong (King K*ng)
K* – Monarch(s) (kings)
K* – Sergeant(s) (from K company)
K* – Eds (???)
Kc – Alexander (from Alexander the Great, one of the”four original kings” put on cards in fourteenth-century Europe)
Kd – One-eyed King (the king of diamonds is the only one with a side view of his face)
Kd – Jack Nicholson (mad man with an ax, aka “Heeere’s Johnny”)
Kd – Julius Caesar (one of the”four original kings” put on cards in fourteenth-century Europe)
Kd – Man with the Axe (the king of diamonds is the only one holding an axe)
Kh – Charlemagne or Charles (from King Charles VII of France, one of the”four original kings” put on cards in fourteenth-century)
Kh – King without a Mustache (the king of hearts is the only one with a mustache)
Kh – Suicide King (the king of hearts has a sword at his head)
Ks – David (from the Biblical King, one of the”four original kings” put on cards in fourteenth-century Europe)
K-K – Cold Turkey (term borrowed from five card stud, a pair of kings, back to back, on the first two cards)
K-K – Cowboy Wolford (from Byron “Cowboy” Wolford, not sure of reason)
K-K – Gorillas in the Mist (from the movie starring Seguorny Weaver)
K-K – Kangaroos (kangaroos are used on childrens alphabet cards to illustrate a K)
K-K – Kinkerbells (courtesy of Vince Van Patton on Celebrity Poker)
K-Q – Divorce (if it loses, and Marriage if it wins)
K-Q – Ferdinand and Isabella (Spanish King & Queen)
K-Q – Lucy & Ricky (king and queen of TV)
K-Q – Royal Couple (king and queen)
K-Q – Parents (they are parents of the prince, as per Mat Rampson)
K-Qo – Mixed Marriage (if off-suit, comes from the game of pinochle)
K-Qo – Othello (as per Mat Rampson)
K-Qs – Marriage (if suited, comes from the game of pinochle)
K-J – Kojak (mimics KJack)
K-J – Bachelor’s Hand (if offsuit “Jack-King-Off”)
K-J – Harry Potter (written by JK Rowling)
K-J – King John (KJ)
K-J – Tucson Monster (???)
K-J – King Jackoff (if offsuit, a reference to the Bachelor Hand, as per cpowers38 from RGP)
K-J – People Who Need People (Barbara Streisand Song, the luckiest hand in the world when it pays off)
K-T – Big Al (???, named after Big Al Emerson)
K-T – Katie or Katy (imitative)
K-T – Woodcutter (offsuit, possibly from the Legend of King Edward and the Woodcutter???)
K-9 – Pair of Dogs (from canine)
K-9 – Canine (sounds like k9)
K-9 – Dirty Dog (if both are black)
K-9 – Mongrel (from canine)
K-9 – Pedigree (from canine)
K-9 – Bird Dog (A dog that hunts birds, if you play it you join the rail birds)
K-9 – Bust-All (Named after Joe Abrahan from Los Angeles, as per Hooter Huon)
K-9 – Dog Pound (see canine)
K-9 – Dope Dog (In Mississippi Casinos, as per Hooter Huon)
K-9 – Fido, What a Dog (a derivative of canine)
K-9 – The Mutt (see canine)
K-9 – Turner & Hooch (from the movie, see canine, as per Supe and friends from RGP)
K-9o – Sawmill (if you play K9 off-suit too much you’ll end up working)
Ks9s – Bob Barker (game show host, last name barker as in canine, Barker believes in spading dogs, as per Dealer Buttons on RGP)
K-8 – The Feast (the King Ate)
K-8 – Kokomo (imitative)
K-8 – Dr Spoon (The Dentist’s Favorite Hand, as per Hooter Huon)
K-8 – Gorilla Biscuits (old school hardcore band) (Old school hardcore band, as per Mat Rampson)
K-8 – Monica Lewinsky (she ate the king)
K-8 – My Girlfriend Kate (sounds like kate, as per Mat Rampson)
K-7 – Columbia River (there’s no place like the Columbia River to grab the King Salmon when they run)
K-7 – King Salmon (in the northwest, the say “seven” like “saban,” see King Crab)
K-7 – Kevin (Kseven sounds like Kevin, as per Supe and friends from RGP)
K-6 – The Concubine (the with whom the King has sex)
K-5o – Rotten Cowboy (because peeking at the corners, sometimes people mistake a 5 for a K, as per The Beet Man on RGP)
K-4 – F**king the Queen (what is a king for?, as per Skins on RGP)
K-4 – Fork (FourK, if offsuit = Fork Off, if spades = Spork)
K-3 – King Crab (3 looks like crab)
K-3 – Alaska Hand (from Alaskan King Crag)
K-3 – Sizzler (the home of all-you-can-eat King Crab)
K-3 – Commander Crab (a derivative of King Crab)
K-2 – White Men Can’t Jump (from the movie, they play the king and the duck at the end of the film, as per Supe and friends )
K-2o – Big Fritz (???, offsuit)
Q* – Lady(ies) (if they win, but if they lose they are whores)
Q* – Broad(s) (if they lose)
Q* – Girls (a euphemism for whores, only if they lose, coined by Swen Larsen)
Q* – Madam (if it wins, with respect, referring to a senior hostess in a poker house, or if it loses, referring to the proprietor of a house of ill-repute)
Q* – Whores (only if they lose, but if they win, they are ladies)
Q* – Bitch(es) (from the poker game, Follow the Bitch, where the card after a queen is wild)
Q* – Dame(s) (if they lose)
Q* – Dyke(s) (vulgar, if they lose)
Q* – Hen(s) (female chickens)
Q* – Hooker(s) (if they lose, but if they win, they are ladies)
Q* – Joy Girl(s) (if they lose, a reference to prostitutes)
Q* – Mop Squeezer(s) (politically incorrect, women in the kitchen)
Q* – Puta (vulgar, spanish whore, only if she loses)
Q* – Stenographer(s) (traditionally a women’s job, came from 1930′s term for Queens, typewriter)
Q* – Typewriter (see stenographer)
Q* – Witch(es) (if she loses, Lady if she wins)
Q* – Girls with Curls (???)
Qc – Argine (one of the”four original queens” put on cards in fourteenth-century France, may represent Juno, the)
Qd – Rachel (the biblical Rachel, one of the”four original queens” put on cards in fourteenth-century France)
Qh – Helen of Troy (one of the”four original queens” put on cards in fourteenth-century France)
Qh – Judith (from the Bible, one of the”four original queens” put on cards in fourteenth-century France)
Qs – Black Maria (a variant of the game of Hearts, where the Queen of Space is 13 points, but King and Ace are also p)
Qs – Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Canary who was buried in Deadwood next to Wild Bill Hickok)
Qs – Maria (aka Black Maria, a variant of the game of Hearts, where the Queen of Space is 13 points, but King a)
Qs – Molly Hogan (???)
Qs – Pallas Athena (one of the”four original queens” put on cards in fourteenth-century France)
Qs – Slippery Anne (a variant of the game of Hearts, where the Queen of Space is 13 points, but King and Ace are also p)
Q-Q – Siegfried and Roy (two queens)
Q-Q – Canadian Rockets (???, or Canadian Aces, because they revere the Queen of England)
Q-Q – Four tits (vulgar)
Q-Q – Pair of Wire Cutters (dikes)
Q-Q – San Francisco Wedding (gay reference)
Q-Q – Two Chicks at the Same Time (sexual reference)
Q-Q – Jailhouse Rock (homosexuality in prison)
Q-Q – Hilton Sisters (jetset party girls Paris & Nicki Hilton)
Q-J – Maverick (from Maverick TV show theme song, “Livin’ on jacks and queens. Maverick is a legend of the west.”)
Q-J – Fred & Ethel (if Lucy and Ricky are KQ)
Q-J – Oedipus Rex (incestuous mother and son)
QsJd – Pinochle (the big hand in pinochle)
Q-T – Goolsby (???, named for Everett Goolsby, well known Texas gambler. Crony of Doyle Brunson,Cowboy Wolford, Bennie )
Q-T – Greyhound (if you play it you ought to catch the next greyhound out of town)
Q-T – Quint (imitative)
Q-T – Robert Varkonyi (in the 2002 WSOP, Varkonyi knocked out Phil Hellmuth? and eventually won the final event with thi)
Q-T – Grattitude (ten-q, thankyou, as per Will Johnson on RGP)
QsTs – Chipwich (???, if both spades)
Q-9 – Quinine (imitative, from lowball)
Q-8 – Face Sitter (vulgar, the queen ate)
Q-8 – Kuwait (sounds like Kuwait, as per Mat Rampson)
Q-7 – Computer Hand (there is a story of an early computer simulation in which Q7 was a break-even hand)
Q-6o – Peanut Butter & Jelly (???, offsuit)
Q-5 – GrannyMae (if both spades, an old-time player, Granny=Queen, Mae=5th Month, some say Q5 spades was her favorit)
Q-4 – B-Diddy (???, the rap artist)
Q-3 – Gay Waiter (queen with a tray)
Q-3 – Posh Gay Waiter (queen with a tray, only if 3 is spades)
Q-3 – San Francisco Bus Boy (queen with a tray)
Q-3 – Bitch with Crabs (queen, with a three that looks like a crab, as per felixgufin from RGP)
Q-2 – Windsor Waiter (queen with a tray)
Q-2 – Aunt Jemima (see Mrs Buttersworth)
Q-2o – The Vesty (coined by Chris Wiley from RGP in honor of a friend they know that wins with it)
J* – Boy(s) (the male children in the kingdom)
J* – Hook(s) (vulgar, jack’s in the hole)
J* – Jackal(s) (starts with J)
J* – Jackson(s) (starts with J)
J* – Jacksonville (starts with J)
J* – Jacksonville Florida (starts with J)
J* – Jake(s) (starts with J)
J* – J-bird(s) or Jaybird(s) (starts with J)
J* – J-boy(s) or Jayboy(s) (starts with J)
J* – John(s) (starts with J)
J* – Johnny(ies) (imitative)
J* – Knave(s) (subject to the king)
J* – Valet(s) (French)
Jc – Lancelot (Sir Lancelot from the knight of King Arthur’s Round Table, one of the original Jacks on cards in 14)
Jd – Hector (the hero of Troy, one of the original Jacks on cards in 14th century France)
Jd – Roland (Charlemagne’s nephew, one of the original Jacks on cards in 14th century Europe)
Jh – La Hire (The Hero” of France, Etienne de Vignoles, a knight under Charles VII of France, one of the origina)
Js – Hogier (Hogier La Danois, one of Charlemagne’s lieutenants, one of the original Jacks on cards in 14th cent)
Js – Ogier (Ogier the Dane, a ficticious hero built on Hogier that went to Avalon and returned after 200 years )
Js – Eunuch (spaded, or castrated Jack)
J-J – Two Jakes (the movie sequel to “Chinatown” staring Jack Nicholson and Harvey Keitel)
J-J – Dyne-O-Mite (JJ from TV’s “Good Times”)
J-J – Fishhooks (they look like them, and because fish get beat with overpairs)
J-J – Jack Jackson (an alliteration)
J-J – Jackson Hole (city in Wyoming, Jacks in the hole)
J-J – Railbound (If you play this heavy, you are bound for the rail)
J-J – Wyoming Twins (from Jackson Hole, WY, coined by Al Morris))
J-J – SHIP (Shittiest Hand In Poker, because you always raise pre-flop and still get beat)
JsJh – One-eyed Jacks (if the jack of spades and the jack of hearts, both side views)
J-T – Morgan (JT Morgan, the financier)
J-9 – Braggars (jacks and nines are wild in the game of Bragg)
J-9 – Jeanine (imitative)
J-9 – Virgin Princess (nein to Jack)
J-9 – Emergency (9-11, as per clevelandrounder on RGP)
J-9 – Lobster Trap (???)
J-8 – Jeffery Dalmer (he ate Jack, serial killer who ate his victims)
J-7 – Dice (7-11, winning dice at craps, as per clevelandrounder on RGP)
J-6 – Railroad Hand (say it rhythmically, jacks and sixes, jacks and sixes)
J-6 – Jeff Talley (???)
J-6 – Jack Sikma (from the Seattle Sonics)
J-5 – Motown (record label for Jackson Five)
J-5 – Jackson Five (Michael Jackson’s childhood group)
J-5 – The Meat (vulgar, probably about jacking off with five fingers)
J-4 – Flat Tire (what’s a jack for?)
J-4 – Done Hand (when you play it, you’re usually done)
J-4 – Austin Squatty (named after John “Austin Squatty” Jenkins due to his penchant for raising and reraising with this hand)
J-4 – Full Employment (because “If you play J4, you’ll always have a day job.”)
J-4 – Jermaine (it is the Jackson Five, minus one, as per Robbie C on RGP)
J-4 – Kid Grenade (after a poker dealer who when he played was “liable to go off at any moment”)
J-3 – Bird Table (jay tray, as per Edward Bird on RGP)
J-3 – Fortran (The J-3 committee is responsble for developing Fortran, as per Bill Henderson on RGP)
J-3 – Jennifer Lopez (aka J-Lo, 3 is low, as per Richard Serton on RGP)
J-3 – San Francisco Waitress (Lesbian, as per Hooter Huon)
J-2 – Bennifer (J-Lo-2, nickname for Ben Aflec once connect to Jennifer Lopez, probably some hand he played on Cele)
J-2 – The Jew (Jtwo sounds like Jew, as per Supe and friends on RGP)
T* – Dime(s) (ten cents)
Tr – Big Casino (either of the red tens)
Td – Big Casino (from the game, Casino, see Little Casino)
T-T – Tension (imitative)
T-T – Twenty Miles (thirty miles if you flop a set)
T-T – Thirty Days (???, 30 days said the judge)
T-9 – Count Down (ten nine …)
T-8 – Tetris (imitative)
T-8 – Golden Dan (???)
T-8 – Tenaciously (the only hand that tells you how to play itself)
T-7 – Bowling Hand (the difficult ten-seven split)
T-7 – Split (a bowling reference, a ten-seven split)
T-6 – Driver’s License (because you get your driver’s license at 16, as per Chris Wiley on RGP)
T-6 – Ringwold (Molly Ringwold, the star of the movie, Sweet Sixteen, as per Bill Henderson on RGP)
T-6 – Stoudemire (Amare Stoudemire is 6′ 10″, as per M Lindon on RGP)
T-6 – Sweet Sixteen (six and ten, as per M Lindon on RGP)
T-5 – Woolworth (the Five and Dime store chain)
T-5 – Nickels and Dimes ()
T-5 – Barbara Hutton (the Woolworth dimestore heiress, 5 & dime)
T-5 – Dimestore (from 5 & dime)
T-4 – Broderick Crawford or Brokerick (from 50s “Highway Patrol,” who said “10-4″ into radio)
T-4 – CB Hand (ten-four is CB radio language for OK)
T-4 – Over and Out (two-way radio language for end of conversation, ten-four is radio language for OK)
T-4 – Roger That (two-way radio language for OK, ten-four is also radio language for OK)
T-4 – The Good Buddy (old trucker radio language, ten-four is CB language for OK)
T-4 – Adam 12 (from the TV Police Show, ten-four)
T-4 – The Trucker (from CB radio, as per Supe and friends on RGP)
T-4 – We got us a Convoy (from the old trucker song, Ten-Four good buddy)
T-3 – Weinberg (???, possibly referring to Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate in Physics)
T-2 – Doyle Brunson (he won 2 back to back WSOPs with this hand)
T-2 – Texas Dolly (Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson twice won the WSOP in 1975 and 1976 turning these hole cards into full )
T-2 – Terminator II (T2 is abbreviation for Terminator II)
9* – Neener(s) (imitative)
9* – Nina Ross (neener for nine)
9* – Nina(s) (imitative)
9* – Pot hook(s) (looks like them)
9d – Scourge of Scotland (aka Curse of Scotland – because every ninth Scottish king was a tyrant and diamonds were a symbol o)
9-9 – German Virgin (nein, nein!)
9-9 – Gretzky (hockey player’s uniform)
9-9 – Barbara Feldon (played Agent 99 on Get Smart)
9-9 – Phil Helmuth (he won the 1989 WSOP with this hand)
9-9 – Popeye’s (???)
9-9 – Prince (from his song, gonna party like it’s 1999, as per Chris Wiley)
9-8 – Oldsmobile (the Olds 98 car)
9-7 – Grapefruit (Grapefruit, 79 cents a pound)
9-7 – Monkey See Monkey Do (???)
9-6 – Big Lick (69, sexual reference to Big Slick)
9-6 – Breakfast of Champions (69, sexual reference)
9-6 – Dinner for Two (69, sexual reference)
9-6 – Joe Bernstein (???, a gambler from the 30s, a sharp road gambler. Joe was known as a dapper dresser at the poker t)
9-6 – Soixante Neuf (pronounced swa-za-noof, which is 69 in French)
9-6 – The Good Lover (69, sexual reference)
9-6 – Gutter Slut (vulgar, as per Supe and friends on RGP)
9-6 – Happy Meal (69, sexual reference)
9-6 – Overtime (one more hour than working 9-5, as per Chris Wiley)
9-6 – Percy (offsuit, 69 sexual reference)
9-6s – Prom Night (if suited because the wear a tux on prom night, 69 sexual reference)
9-5 – Office Hours (because these are typical office hours, coined by George Coffin)
9-5 – Dolly Parton (from the movie 9 to 5)
9-5 – Hard Working Man (works 9 to 5)
9-5 – Betty Hutton (from a version of stud with nines & fives wild)
9-4 – Joe Montana Banana (49ers quarterback, borrowed from 92 Montana Banana, when he was benched the joke was 49 unsuited)
9-4 – San Francisco (49ers, the football team)
9-3 – Jack Benny (always 39 years old)
9-3 – Buns Madrick (???)
9-2 – Twiggy (from the 70′s model’s top measurement of 29)
9-2o – Montana Banana (either the proposition # that legalized poker in Montana or because bananas will grow in Montana be)
8* – Ocho (Spanish for eight)
8* – Frog Eyes (looks like them)
8* – Hogs or Hognuts (looks like them)
8-8 – Snowmen (looks like two snowmen)
8-8 – Little Oldsmobile (big was olds 98, smaller car called olds 88)
8-8 – Mighty Wurlitzer (the number of keys on the organ)
8-8 – Dog Balls or Dawg Bawls (looks like them)
8-8 – Racetrack (goes round and round like a race track)
8-8 – Two Fat Ladies (looks like two fat ladies)
8-8 – Catnuts (because they look like them)
8-8 – Infinity and Beyond (from toy story, 8 on side is infinity)
8-7 – RPM (78 records)
8-7 – Tahoe (from the seven/8 variation of holdem)
8-6 – Eubie (If you play these, you be broke)
8-6 – Maxwell Smart (from TV show Get Smart, agent 86, see also 99)
8-6 – Henry Bowen (a Texas gambler, ???)
8-6 – Pacheco Nuts (???, offsuit)
8-5 – Finky Dink (if you play this hand, you will lose your money, and want to exclaim F*** a Duck, but then change i)
8-5 – Nacogdoches Gumbo (???)
8-5 – Cornerstone (if clubs then Cornerstone Crusher, ???, as per Xmas and friends on RGP)
8-5 – The Scag (named after Paramecian from RGP, because it seems to flop straights or boats)
8-4 – Big Brother (from George Orwell’s book titled “1984″)
8-4 – George Orwell (author of the book titled “1984″)
8-3 – Raquel Welch (38=TopHeavy, if unsuited=Raquel Welch in Playboy Magazine)
8-3 – Sven (???)
8-3 – 38 Special (38 special, a type of gun, as per Mat Rampson)
8-3 – Most Feared Hand in Holdem (???)
8-3o – Suzanna Banana (if offsuit, ???)
8-2 – Fat lady and a duck (8s are fat ladies, and 2s are ducks)
8-2 – Sixty Nine (I ate too)
7* – Corn Cutter(s) (because they look like corn stalk cutting tools)
7* – Salmon (imitative of seven, a hand for fish)
7* – Savanna (imitative of seven)
7* – Heaven (a rhyme, from rgposter’s little brother on RGP)
7* – Honeysticks (???)
7* – Meathook(s) (because they look like them, from an RGPers old college professor)
7* – Sheep Posts (they look like a seven, as per clevelandrounder on RGP)
7* – Walking Stick(s) (looks like walking sticks, as per Mat Rampson)
7-9 – Yugo (Named after a gentleman at Sycuan Casino, as per Hooter Huon)
7-7 – Buggy Tops (looks like it)
7-7 – Hockey Sticks (looks like them)
7-7 – Mullets (because of the hair style, flat in front, long in back)
7-7 – Saturn (Saturn VII Rocket)
7-7 – Sunset Strip (from “77 Sunset Strip,” a TV series that aired from ’58-’64 starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr.)
7-6 – Union Oil (Union 76 gas stations)
7-6 – Trombones (from the song “76 Trombones”, from the movie “Music Man”)
7-6 – America (1776, the birth of the nation, as per Chris Wiley)
7-5 – Heinz 57 Sauce (Heinz invented 57 different sauces)
7-5 – Pickle Man (refers to Heinz of 57 sauces fame)
7-5 – KillingFields (Communist regime in Cambodia started in 1975, as per Hooter Huon)
7-5o – Filipino Slick (???, offsuit)
7-4 – Barn Owl (???)
7-4o – Cambodian Slick (???, offsuit)
7-3 – Dutch Waiter (Sven with a Tray)
7-3 – Swedish Busboy (Sven with a Tray, see also San Francisco Busboy and Dutch Waiter)
7-3o – Rusty Trombone (???, as per The Beet Man on RGP)
7-2 – Beer Hand (If you win with this, you have to buy everyone a round)
7-2 – The Terminator (???, 27)
7-2 – The Whip (the Worst Hand In Poker, as per Supe and friends on RGP)
7-2 – A Little Slice of Heaven (sarcasm, see WHIP, as per Supe and friends on RGP)
7-2 – Par (I made par, a golf term)
7-2 – The Fridge (After football player “The Refrigerator” William Perry)
7-2o – Death (because you are dead if all-in with this hand, and because average age of death is 72, as per Chris Wiley)
7-2o – The Big Man Hand (because it takes a big man to play it, as per friends of McD on RGP)
6* – Boot(s) (looks like a boot)
6* – Sax (imitative)
6* – Sex (imitative)
6* – Sickening (imitative, and embarrased to show it)
6-6 – Route 66 (The road from Chicago to LA)
6-6 – Hellish (from 666 in the Book of Revelations)
6-6 – Kicks (get your kicks on route 66)
6-6 – Phillips (Phillips 66 Gas Stations)
6-5 – Ken Warren (won with this hand at WSOP)
6-4 – Rabbit (???)
6-4 – The Question (from TV’s $64000 Question)
6-4 – LBJ (the year he became president, see JFK, as per RazzO on RGP)
6-4 – Revolution (from the Beetles song)
6-3 – Blocky (another nickname of Broomcorn from the story in Super/System. He used to play 63 as an ambush hand)
6-3 – Blocky (???, nickname of Lawrence Herron or Herring, a gambling contemporary of Moss, Binion, Titanic Thompson, )
6-3 – JFK (the last year he was president, see LBJ, as per RazzO on RGP)
6-3 – Jimmy Somerfield (Jimmy won a huge pot in Tunica after a dealer told him to play this hand, he was the tournament director at the 5th JBWPO)
6-3 – Three Dozen (36 is three dozen, people think you are going to say three of a kind)
6-2 – Bed & Breakfast (darts term for shooting 20+5+1, also Bingo term, 2 shillings and 6 pence being the cost of a B&B)
6-2 – Ainsworth (???, possibly a reference to someone in the Austrialian Ainsworth family, known as the poker machin)
5* – Magic Number (from five card hands, etc)
5* – Fever (imitative, as in “Fever in the North, and the Doctor went South” when it loses)
5* – Five-spot (can add spot to any card)
5* – Pedro (because 5s are important in the game of pedro)
5-5 – Presto (originally a blackjack term, later adopted by rec.gambling holdem players due to magical experience)
5-5 – Speed Limit (55 MPH)
5-5 – Double Nickels (five cents per nickel)
5-5 – Irwin? (After RGer Frank Irwin, when someone wins and says “presto,” another RGer countersigns with “Irwin?)
5-5 – Sammy (Sammy Hagar, who sang, I can’t drive 55, used in Pacific Northwest)
5-4 – Colt 45 (the gun, and the beer)
5-4 – Jesse James (because the outlaw was rumored to have been shot by a .45.)
5-3 – Bully Johnson (???)
5d3d – Redbird Shifter (if both diamonds, ???)
5-2 – Two Bits (25 cents)
5-2 – Quarter (25 cents)
4* – One Legged Ace (because they are missing a leg)
4* – Quatro (Spanish for four)
4* – Sharp Top(s) (because they have sharp tops, Aces are sharp toys)
4* – Sore Spot (rhymes with 4-spot)
4* – Crooked House(s) (looks like crooked houses, as per Mat Rampson)
4* – Drunk Man’s Ace (pointy top, looks like an ace)
4c – Devil’s bedpost (???, possibly four poster bed)
4-4 – Sailboats (looks like two sails)
4-4 – Darth Vader (the two black fours are the “dark force”)
4-4 – Diana Dors (her top measurement)
4-4 – Magnum (the .44 cal gun)
4-4 – Canadian Presto (lower than 55, which is called Presto)
4-4 – The Poker Dean (???)
4-3 – Waltz Time (3/4 meter)
4-2 – Lumberman’s Hand (a 2×4)
4-2 – Lumberjack (a 2×4)
4-2 – The Answer (from Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, the computer decided that the answer to everything in the univ)
4-2 – The Miracle (if it wins, from Miracle on 42nd Street)
3* – Trey(s) (???, Spanish for 3)
3* – Crab(s) (because a 3 looks like it has pincers)
3-2 – Mites & Lice (because they are parasites)
3-2 – Nits & Buggers (because they are parasites)
3-2 – Aggie Slick (a putdown of Texas A&M poker players who think this is a good hand and play it)
3-2 – Little Pete (???)
3-2 – Mississippi Slick (derogatory reference to Mississippians who value 3-2 as much as big slick A-K)
3-2 – Polish Big Slick (a bad Pollock joke mimicking AK Big Slick)
3-2o – Can of Corn (???, offsuit)
3-2o – Big Gulp (it was the first 32oz drink)
3-2b – O J (if spades or clubs, OJ Simpson, if it wins, or “Ron & Nicole” if it loses, as per Chirs Wiley)
3-2s – Hooter Hand (suited, minimum measurements to fit the uniform)
3-2s – Jordan (suited Michael Jordan, uniform number)
2* – Deuce(s) (probably from the French word for two, duex)
2* – Duck(s) (from duex, French word for two, also a 2 looks like a duck)
2* – Dewey Duck (in pun, Asian pan players call a deuce a Gooey Duck)
2* – Water Chickens (ducks)
2c – English Joker (named after English Peter, who catches it whenever he draws to a high hand that does not need it, or to a low hand that has another duece)
2s – Curse of Mexico (a parody on Scourge of Scotland)
2s – Little Casino (from the game, Casino, see Big Casino)
2-2 – Barely Legal (just over 21)
2-2 – Deuces Never Loses (bad rhyme)
2-2 – Pocket Swans (looks like swans)
2-2 – Quackers (see ducks)
2-2 – Mini me (from the Austin Powers movies, as per clevelandrounder on RGP)
Source: www.holdemsecrets.com
November 5th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
In Germany we call the 3-10 “Anything”.
Named after this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7pncx-m76I
April 10th, 2009 at 7:14 am
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March 24th, 2010 at 10:05 am
no name for 3 3 other than treys? by the way that’s no spanish. spanish is tres.