Avoiding Domination in Texas Holdem

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List of slang names for poker hands

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In poker, players may often use slang terms for particular types of hands. Though most are recent neologisms, others date to poker's antiquity. All such slang terms typically connect a common concept (from life experience or storytelling) to the hand, in order to more easily characterize its general status relative to other hands. The terms range from whimsical to bawdy, with some being of a racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise controversial nature.

The following lists should not be confused with "official" poker terminology. See poker jargon.

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Individual card slang

The following table lists slang terms commonly associated with individual cards:

Card	Slang name
A	Bullet, Rocket
K	Cowboy
Q	Lady, Bitch, Girl, Cowgirl, Mop Squeezer
J	Johnny, Jackel, Knave, Hook (play on shape), Valet (from French)
T	Dime
8	Snowman (play on shape), Ocho (from Spanish)
7	Hockey Stick,Walking Stick, Candy Cane (play on shape)
5	Nickel
4	Sailboat (play on shape)
3	Trey (standard usage, not slang), Crab (play on shape)
2	Deuce (standard usage, not slang), Duck (play on deuce), Quacker (play on duck)

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Five-card hand slang

Refer to the article on Rank of hands (poker) for more information about poker hands.

Hand	Slang name
Straight flush, ace to five	Steel wheel
Straight Flush, ten to ace	Royal Flush
Four of a kind	Book, Case, Quads (e.g., "Quad Kings")
Four of a kind, aces	Four Pips (Each ace has one pip)
Full house	Full boat, Boat, Full, Tight(Canadian usage) A full house is commonly referred to as Xs full of Ys where X is the three of a kind and Y is the pair. For example, 555KK would be "fives full of kings"
Flush of hearts or diamonds	Pink, All Pink
Flush of clubs or spades	Blue, All Blue
Flush of clubs	Golf Bag, Puppy Feet, Puppy Toes, Pups
Straight, ten to ace	Broadway
Straight, ace to five	Wheel, Bicycle, Bike
Three of a kind	Trips (or Trip as in Ted has trip kings.), Set In Hold 'em the term "set" refers to when a player has a pair in the hole and one matching card on the board, with "trips" referring to a pair on the board and one in the hand or three of a kind on the board.
Three of a kind, kings	Klan Rally, Alabama Night Riders, Three Wise Men
Three of a kind, sixes	Devil's hand, Mark of the Beast (referring to the Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelation)
Three of a kind, deuces	Huey, Dewey and Louie
Two pair, aces and eights	Dead man's hand (hand held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was shot and killed)
Two pair	Two pair is commonly shorthanded as Xs up or Xs over Ys, with the top pair as X and the bottom pair as Y. For example, KK998 would be "kings up" or "kings over nines".)
One pair, aces	Aces and spaces (a hand with one pair of aces, and nothing else. Used derogatorily, especially in games such as seven-card stud, where two pair is a typical winning hand)
Outside straight draw	Bobtail, Open-ended, up-and-down- An outside straight draw: cards of two different ranks could complete the high or low end of the straight (e.g., _3456_)
Outside straight flush draw	Big Bobtail
Inside straight draw	Gutshot, Belly buster An inside straight draw: only cards of a single rank could complete the straight (e.g., 34_67)
Double inside straight draw	Double gutshot, Double belly buster Double inside straight draw: cards of two different ranks could fill gaps in the straight (e.g., 2_456_8)

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Texas hold'em slang

The following refer to hole (pocket) cards in Texas hold 'em:

Starting hand	Slang name
AA	Pocket Rockets, American Airlines, Bullets, Two Pips
AK	Big Slick (originally referred to A♠K♠, but the name has become common for any Ace-King, especially suited), Anna Kournikova (looks good but rarely wins), Machine Gun (AK-47), Walking Back to Houston ("I can see you learned to play in Houston. Those Houston players would come to Dallas and play that ace-king, but they'd always end up against a pair of aces. That's why we call that hand ‘Walking back to Houston.'" - T.J. Cloutier, quoted by Barry Greenstein)
AQ	Little Slick, Big Chick, Mrs. Slick
AJ	Blackjack, Ajax
AT	Johnny Moss
A8	Dead Man's Hand (by analogy with Wild Bill's aces and eights)
A3	Baskin-Robbins (plays off the number 31: 31 Flavors), Friday The 13th (An ace played low would be considered equivalent to 1)
A2	Acey-Deucey, Drinking Age
KK	Cowboys, Elvis Presley, King Kong, Ace Magnets
KQ	Marriage, Royalty
KQ suited	Royal Marriage
KQ unsuited	Mixed Marriage
K♥Q♥	Valentine's Day
KJ	Kojak, King John
K9	Canine, Dog, Fido, Sawmill
K7	King Salmon
K3	King Crab, Alaska Hand
QQ	Cowgirls, Ladies, Siegfried & Roy, Hilton Sisters, Olsen Twins, Dykes, Girls with curls, Bitches, Mop squeezers
QJ	Maverick (the theme song for the television series Maverick speaks of the title character as "livin' on jacks and queens")
QT	Q-Tip, Varkonyi (named after Robert Varkonyi, 2002 World Series of Poker main event champion, who rather liked this hand)
Q9	Quinine
Q7	Computer Hand
Q4	Gay Cruise, Bitch on a Boat
Q3	Gay Waiter, San Francisco Busboy ("Queen with a tray")
Q3 suited	Posh Gay Waiter
Q♥3♥	Flaming Gay Waiter
JJ	Fishhooks, Hooks, Jokers
JT	Cloutier (play on name: T. J. Cloutier)
J♣9♣	T.J. Cloutier (T.J. flopped three straight flushes with this hand in one year)
J7	Jack Daniel's (Jack Old No. 7)
J6	Railroad Hand
J5	Motown, Jackson Five
J4	Flat Tire ("What's a jack for?")
TT	Dimes, TNT
T5	Five and Dime, Woolworths
T4	Good Buddy, Over and Out, Roger That (play on radio code 10-4), Broderick Crawford
T2	Doyle Brunson, Texas Dolly (Brunson won the World Series of Poker with it twice in a row—1976 and 1977)
99	Wayne Gretzky (his jersey number), German Virgin ("nein, nein" means "no, no" in German)
98	Oldsmobile
96	Big Lick, Porno, Dinner for Two (play on number 69)
96 suited	Prom Night ("Sixty-nine suited")
9♥6♥	Valentine's Day
95	Dolly Parton (she sang Workin' 9 to 5), Full-time job
94	Gold Rush, San Francisco (play off the number 49)
93	Jack Benny, The Sik
92	Montana Banana
88	Little Oldsmobile, Snowmen, Infinities , Double Infinity
86	Maxwell Smart (Agent 86 in Get Smart)
83	Raquel Welch
77	Hockey Sticks, Candy Canes, Walking Sticks
76	Philadelphia, Union Oil, Trombones (from the song 76 Trombones)
75	Heinz, Ketchup (play on Heinz's 57 varieties)
74	Double Down, Blackjack hand
73	Hachem (named for Joe Hachem, winner of World Series of Poker, 2005 who won the $7.5 million prize with this hand when he flopped a straight)
72 offsuit	The Hammer, Beer Hand
72 suited	Velvet Hammer
66	Route 66
63	Blocky
62	Ainsworth
55	Presto, Speed Limit, Nickels
54	Jesse James, Colt 45 (both play off the number 45), Moneymaker (winning hand of Chris Moneymaker, 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event champion)
52	Bomber (B-52 bomber)
44	Sailboats (looks like two sails), Midlife Crisis, Magnum, Luke Skywalker ("May the fours be with you")
4♠4♣	Darth Vader ("Dark Side Of The Fours")
33	Crabs, Hooters
32	Can of Corn
32 offsuit	Houta Hand (pronounced like "Hooter", named for a Native American dealer who advocates playing this hand)
22	Ducks (from "deuces"), Swans, Sleepers, Quack Quack
any pocket pair	Wired pair, Wired (for example, a starting hand of 8-8 might be called "wired eights" or "eights wired")

In addition, two types of hands are called "blackjack hands":

• Hands which are naturals in blackjack: any ace with any face or ten.
• Hands whose numeric total is 11: 9-2, 8-3, 7-4, 6-5. (In blackjack, such hands are very good for players.)

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Omaha slang

Omaha slang is not as well developed as Texas Hold'em. The game is not as widely played, and there is a much greater variety of hands, since the pocket is four cards. In the hole in Omaha hold'em:

Hand	Slang name
A-K-4-7	Assault Rifle
Four pair	Noah's Ark

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Flop slang

The following terms refer to the flop in Omaha hold'em and Texas hold'em:

Flop	Slang name
Three different suits	Rainbow
Three face cards	Paint (can also be used to refer to any picture card. I need to hit paint indicates somebody who is looking for a J,Q,K.)
Three low cards	Rags, Ragged flop (cards unlikely to have helped anyone)

List of slang names for poker hands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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