If you are one of those who wacht poker on tv, Im sure you will sometimes hear the tv hosts using nicknames for the poker hands.. you might know a few of them like... Pocket Rockets, Cowboys, Black Jack, Big slick... And i coude go on and on... Well thats why I decidet now It's time for me to make a list of all the nicknames i know.
Im sure that there are alot more out there and they keep comming but this is my littel list.
Hand Nicknames
AA | Pocket Rockets, Bullets, American Airlines |
KK | Cowboys, King Kong, Kangaroos |
QQ | Double date, Canadian Aces, Siegfried and Roy, Jailhouse Rock, 4 Tits, Flower Girls |
JJ | Fish hooks |
99 | Popeye's, German virgin (no, we don’t know why) |
88 | Snowmen Two Fat Ladies, Dawg Balls, Racetracks |
77 | Sunset strip, Saturn, Mullets |
66 | Kicks, Route 66 |
55 | Speed limit |
44 | Magnum, Colt 44, Sail boat |
33 | Crabs |
22 | Ducks |
AK | Big slick |
AQ | Big chick, Little Slick, Doyle Brunson |
AJ | Black Jack, Jack-ass |
KQ | Royalty, Marriage |
KJ | Kojak |
J5 | Jackson five |
Q3 | Gay waiter |
95 | Dolly Parton |
A8 | Dead man’s hand (The story goes that a player named Wild Bill Hickok was shot in 1876 after winning with it! Back in the good old days when Poker, Whisky and Six-shooters was the life of a gambler) |
K9 | Canine, Dog Troops (Police Code for a dog trooper) |
K3 | Commander Crab, King Crab |
J4 | Flat tyre |