Knowing Your Hands Name
By the time when you are going to play poker online, the nicknames of poker
hands can help you lot. Because just be a term you can understand the hand
position, cards, and the strength. So knowing hands name in online poker game is very much important
as the poker rules. A good player, who play
poker online he should know the slang or the Nicknames of cards.
Individual card Nick Name
The following table lists Nick Name terms commonly associated with
individual cards|
Card
|
Nick Name
name
|
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A
|
Bullet, Rocket
|
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K
|
Cowboy
|
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Q
|
Lady, Girl, Mop
Squeezer, Cowgirl
|
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J
|
|
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T
|
Dime
|
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9
|
Nina Ross (Also
hip-hop Nick Name for 9mm pistol)
|
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8
|
Snowman (play on
shape), Ocho (from Spanish)
|
|
7
|
Hockey Stick,
Walking Stick, Candy Cane (play on shape)
|
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5
|
Nickel
|
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4
|
Sailboat (play
on shape)
|
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3
|
Trey (standard
usage, not Nick Name), Crab (play on shape)
|
|
2
|
Deuce (standard
usage, not Nick Name), Duck (play on deuce), Quacker (play on duck)
|
Five-card hand Nick Name
|
Hand
|
Nick Name
name
|
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Straight flush,
ace to five
|
Steel wheel
|
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Four of a kind
|
Book, Case,
Quads (e.g., "Quad Kings")
|
|
Four of a kind,
aces
|
Four Pips (Each
ace has one pip)
|
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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"
|
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Flush of hearts
or diamonds
|
Pink, All Pink
|
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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
|
Alabama Night
Riders, Three Wise Men
|
|
Three of a kind,
sevens
|
Slot Machine
|
|
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.
|
|
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)
|
|
Four cards of
one suit
|
Busted flush,
Four-flush
·
Four cards of
one suit: only another card of that suit could complete a flush
|
Texas Hold'em Nick Name
The following refer to hole (pocket) cards in Texas hold 'em:|
Starting hand
|
Nick Name
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,
Jackass
|
|
AT
|
Johnny Moss, A-Team,
Bookends
|
|
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 (when the flop comes Ace high with no King)
|
|
KQ
|
Marriage,
Royalty
|
|
KQ suited
|
Royal Marriage
|
|
KQ unsuited
|
Mixed Marriage
|
|
K♥Q♥
|
Valentine's Day
|
|
KJ
|
Kojak, King John
|
|
KJ unsuited
|
Bachelor Hand
(from "Jack-King-Off")
|
|
K9
|
Canine, Dog,
Fido, Sawmill, The Donk
|
|
K7
|
King Salmon
|
|
K3
|
King Crab,
Alaska Hand, Three Kings
|
|
QQ
|
Cowgirls,
Ladies, Siegfried and Roy, Four Tits, Bitches
|
|
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,
"The Hellory"
|
|
Q7
|
Computer Hand
|
|
Q3
|
Gay Waiter, San
Francisco Busboy ("Queen with a tray")
|
|
Q3 suited
|
Posh Gay Waiter
|
|
Q♥3♥
|
Flaming Gay
Waiter
|
|
JJ
|
Fishhooks,
Hooks, Jokers, Kid Dyn-o-mite, Johnnies
|
|
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)
|
|
J8
|
Jeffrey Dahmer
("Ate Jack")
|
|
J7
|
Jack Daniel's
(Jack Old No. 7)
|
|
J6
|
Railroad Hand
|
|
J5
|
Motown, Jackson
Five
|
|
J4
|
Flat Tire
("What's a jack for?")
|
|
TT
|
Binary, Dimes,
TNT, Boxcars
|
|
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 Main Event with it twice
in a row—1976 and 1977)
|
|
9♠9♣
|
Phil Hellmuth
(winning hand of the 1989 World Series of Poker Main Event)
|
|
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 "9 to 5"), Full-time job
|
|
94
|
Gold Rush, San
Francisco (play off the number 49)
|
|
93
|
Jack Benny (play
off his running gag of always being 39 years old), The Sik
|
|
92
|
Montana Banana
|
|
88
|
Octopussy,
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 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event who won the $7.5 million prize with this
hand when he flopped a straight)
|
|
72 offsuit
|
The Hammer, Beer
Hand (72 offsuit is the worst possible starting hand; this name implies that
you would have to be drunk to play this 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")
|
|
42
|
Willie Mays
|
|
33
|
Crabs, Hooters
|
|
32
|
Can of Corn
|
|
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")
|
- 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.)
Omaha Nick Name
Omaha Nick Name 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.|
Hand
|
Nick Name
name
|
|
A-K-4-7
|
Assault Rifle
|
|
Four pair (using
hole cards and community cards)
|
Noah's Ark
|
Flop Nick Name
The following terms refer to the flop in Omaha Hold'em and Texas Hold'em:|
Flop
|
Nick Name
name
|
|
Three different
suits
|
Rainbow
|
|
Two different
suits
|
Two-tone (i.e.
one card of one suit, and two of another)
|
|
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.) Also called a Picasso flop.
|
|
Three low cards
|
Rags, Ragged
flop (cards unlikely to have helped anyone)
|
|
Three Sevens
|
Jackpot
(referring to a jackpot on a slot machine)
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