Slang for Poker Hands
Nicknames for Hold'em Hole Cards
If you play or watch Texas Hold'em at all, you'll start hearing people
announce they've got "Big Slick" or "I've got snowmen!"
They're not being literal -- they're talking about the hole or pocket
cards they've been dealt in the lingo of poker.
Learn the slang for poker hands so when you hear these nicknames
while playing Texas Hold'em, you'll know what everyone is talking
about.
A-A – American Airlines, bullets, pocket rockets
A-K – Big Slick, “Walking back to Houston”
A-J -- Ajax
K-K – Cowboys
K-Q – Marriage
K-J – Kojak
K-9 -- Canine
Q-Q – Dames, divas, ladies, the Hilton sisters, Siegfried &
Roy
Q-J – Maverick, Oedipus Rex
Q-7 -- Computer Hand
Q-3 – A San Francisco Busboy (a queen with a trey – har har)
J-J – Jokers, hooks
J-9 – T.J. Cloutier.
J-5 – Jackson Five, Motown
10-5 – Five and dime
10-2 – Doyle Brunson. (He won two World Series of Poker titles
with this hand.)
8-8 – Snowmen, Octopuses
7-7 – Hockey Sticks, walking Sticks
7-2 – The Hammer
5-5 – Nickels, presto
5-4 – Jesse James, for his Colt .45
4-4 -- Sailboats
2-2 – Ducks
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