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rose · ...and then Magic happens Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 4117

[HUMOR] Names of card pairs

**Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:59 pm

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Oh goodness, there are lots and lots more of those Hold'em starting hand nicknames. Off the top of my head:

88 - Octopi (octopi have 8 tentacles) / little Oldsmobile (after the model "eighty-eight")

98 - Oldsmobile (after the model "ninety-eight")

JJ - fish hooks

J5 - motown / jackson five / jurassic 5 (my favorite hip-hop group)

T2 - Brunson (named after the hand with which Doyle Brunson won back-to-back World Series of Poker main event championships) [T is a 10]

AK - big slick

A2 - little slick

69 - dinner for two / big lick

Q3 - gay waiter / San Francisco busboy (queen with a trey)

AJ - Ajax

QQ - Gabor Sisters / Hilton Sisters / Sigried and Roy

KQ - marriage / Kournikova (after Anna Kournikova: it looks good but never wins anything)

55 - presto (like a magician showing you both open hands with 5 fingers on each)

27 - the hammer (the worst starting hand possible)

KK - cowboys

AA - pocket rockets / american airlines / bullets

T5 - woolworth / five and dime

95 - Dolly Parton (workin' 9 to 5)

K9 - canine

57 - Heinz (57 varieties)

KJ - kojak (like the TV show)

76 - trombones (76 trombones in the big parade...)

99 - Hellmuth (Phil Hellmuth won the 1989 WSOP main event with this hand)

77 - hockey sticks

44 - magnum (.44 magnum gun) / sailboats (the fours look like the mast and sail of a sailboat)

**Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 4:16 pm

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J and 5 is called "Jackson Five" or "Motown" (as in [read it aloud] JacksandFive)

Two twos are called a pair of "ducks" as the 2 looks kinda like a duck's head and half a body above the water. (sort of.) And sometimes they're called "deuces" (I know most people know that, but what the heck.)

Two Kings are sometimes called "Cowboys"

Two Aces are called "Bullets" due to the A shape kindasorta lookin like bullets headed upwards.

And finally, while not a pair, you'll most likely hear about A-K billed as "Big Slick" Cuz it's a great "nut" to start with (nut=first two cards dealt directly to you), but can be slippery as it's not a sure thing to pair anything with the great cards.

Um, I'm certain there's more that I cannot think of right now.

Other card terminology: "One-eyed Jacks" refer to the Jack cards (2 of the four) with their head to the side, so you only see one eye...

"Suicide Kings" are 2 of the four kings with their weapon drawn into/behind their head. (I believe it's a sword and an axe, is that right?)

And that's all I can think of right now, more to come, I'm sure.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 4:25 pm

MrDoug

uno mas

**Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 4:32 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 4:41 pm

rose · ...and then Magic happens Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 4117

**Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 4:47 pm

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ThaJinx · Unfettered Joined: 24 Oct 2004 Posts: 430

Probably my favorite pocket name is 4 Club/4 Spade. My friends and I refer to it as the Darth Vader hand, because the holder controls the dark side of the fours Very Happy

**Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 4:50 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 4:53 pm

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ThaJinx · Unfettered Joined: 24 Oct 2004 Posts: 430

C'mon. Vader hand. That's classy.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 4:53 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:02 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:03 pm

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Nos

Me and my friends call three twos a 'flurry of twos' because it's unexpected, and underated, and NEVER loses. Hee.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:03 pm

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Sigh. Leave it to the Canadian to know that 88 is also called "the Snowmen".

**Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:18 pm

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KradDrol · Boot Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 16

22 - Ducks

44 - Sailboats

QQ - Freddie Mercury

**Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:44 pm

Pauloulou

My personal favorite?

77 - Pocket Mullets

Don't get any better than beating the pants off of someone with a couple mullets. Shocked

**Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:51 pm

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