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Poker Hand Nicknames


 
A A - American Airlines; Bullets; Needles; Pocket Rockets; Eyes; Eyes of Texas; Spikes; Sharp Tops; Tee Pees; Snake Eyes
A K - Big Slick; Santa Barbara; Big SLick in a Suit (if Suited.)
A Q - Big Chick; Little Slick; Big Trick;
A J - Ajax; Foamy Cleanser; BlackJack; JackAss
A 10 - Johnny Moss; Book Ends ( 2 ends of the highest straight.)
A 9 - Rounders Hand (From the movie)
A 8 - Dead Man's Hand (Wild Bill Hickock was holding Ace's and 8's when he was shot in the back by Jack McCall.)
A 7 - Red Baron (Sven, the flying ace.)
A 6 - Mile High (Airplane and Sex.)
A 5 - High Five
A 4 -  Transvestite (Because you anticipated a second Ace, but were quite disappointed when you looked closely.);  Filipino Aces; Sharp Tops
A 3 - Baskin-Robbins; Ash-Trey
A 2 - Acey-Deucey; Little Slick; Hunting Season(A bullet and a Duck); Shocker
K K K K - Sergeants from K Company
K K K - Alabama Night Riders; Ku Klux Klan; Sergeants from K Company
K K - Gorillas, King Kong; Sergeants from K Company; Cold Turkey;  CowBoys;  Ace Magnets; Bastards ; Kangaroos;  Kingkerbells;
K Q - Marriage (if it works out) Divorce (if it doesn't); Pimp and Ho'; Royal Couple; Parents
K J - Kojak; Bachelor's Hand; Jack King Off (If K J offsuit); Harry Potter (Written by JK Rowling)
K 10 - Katy; Katie; Big Al
K 9 - Canine/Pedigree; Mongrel; Dog; Dirty Dog (if both black); Dog Pound; Fido; Turner and Hooch
K 8 - Kokomo; Kate; The Feast (King Ate); Gorilla Biscuits; Monica Lewinsky (She ate the King); My Girlfriend Kate
K 7 - Columbia River (There's no place like the C River to grab King Salmon when they run.)
K 6 - Concubine (With whom the King has sex.)
K 4 -  Fork; F**king the Queen (What is a King for?)
K 3 - Alaska hand; King Crab; Sizzler; Commander Crab;
K 2 - Big Fritz
Q Q Q Q - Stenographers; Village People
Q Q Q - Three fates; (vulgar usage) Six Tits
Q Q - Siegfried and Roy; Four Tits; Bitches; Ladies (but if they lose they're Whores.); Hens; Hookers (if they lose); Witches; Canadian Aces (or Canadian Rockets, because we revere the Queen of England.); San Francisco Wedding;  Jailhouse Rock (homosexuality in Prison);  Hilton Sisters
Q J - Maverick; Oedipus Rex (Incestuous Mother and Son)
Q J - Pinochle
Q 10 - Goolsby; Quint; Robert Vokonyi; Gratitude (Ten-Q)
Q 9 - Quinine
Q 8 - Kuwait; Face Sitter (Vulgar, the Queen Ate.)
Q 7 - Computer Hand
Q 5 - Granny Mae
Q 3 - San Francisco Bus Boy; Gay Waiter; Bitch with Crabs
J J J - Hart, Shaffner, and Marx
J J - (slang) Fishhooks; Hooks; J-Birds; Jacksons; SHIP (Shittiest hand in poker - because you always raise pre-flop and still get beat.)
J <anything lower than 10>  -  jack S#!T
J 9 - T.J. Cloutier; Emergency (9-11)
J 8 - Jeffery Dahlmer (he Ate Jack)
J 7 - Dice (7 - 11)
J 6 - Railroad hand; Jack Tally
J 5 - Motown (Record Label for the Jackson 5)
J 4 - Flat Tire
J 3 - Jennifer Lopez (J-Lo)
J 2 - Jennifer Lopez; The Jew (Jtwo sounds like Jew)
10 10 10 10 - Tension
10 10 10 - Elk River; Gilroy; San Jose to Gilroy, sometimes just Gilroy; Judge Bean; Judge Duffy; 30 miles; 30 days in the county jail; 30; 30 days; 30 dirty miles; 30 miles of bad road; 30 miles of railroad track; 30 miles of rough road; Tension
10 10 - Dimes; Tension; Twenty Miles
10 9 - Count down (10, 9  . . .)
10 8 - Tetris
10 7 - Bowling Hand (The difficult 10-7 split); Split
10 6 - Drivers Licence; Sweet Sixteen
10 5 - Barbara Hutton; dime store; nickels and dimes; Woolworth; Tension; 5 and dime
10 4 - Broderick Crawford; CB Hand; CB Radio;  Truckers Hand; Over and Out; Roger That; Trucker
10 3 - Weinberg
10 2 -Doyle Brunson (He won 2 back to back WSOP's with this hand); Terminator (T2)
9 9 - pothooks; Phil Helmuth; Red Balloons (If  Reds); Neeners; German Virgin (Nein! Nein!); Gretzky
9 8 - Oldsmobile
9 6 - Joe Bernstein; Rail Road; Big lick; Breakfast of Champions; Dinner for Two; The Good Lover; Happy Meal;
9 5 - Dolly Parton; Office Hours
9 4 - Joe Montana banana; San Francisco
9 3 - as down cards Jack Benny
9 2 - Montana Banana; Twiggy; Golf Bag
8 8 8 8 - Snowmen
8 8 8 - Snowmen
8 8 - Little Oldsmobile; Snowmen; Wurlitzer; Snowmen; as starting cards Mighty Wurlitzer; Dog Balls; Frog Eyes; Race Tracks; 2 fat ladies;
8 7 - RPM
8 6 - Eubie; Henry Bowen; Maxwell Smart (Agent 86)
8 5 - Finky Dink; Corner Stone;
8 3 - Raquel Welch; Sven; 38 special;
8 2 - Fat Lady and a Duck;
7 7 7 - 21 miles; 21 miles of railroad track; 21 miles of rough road;
7 7 - Hockey Sticks; Mullets; Salmon;
7 6 - Trombones; Union Oil;
7 5 - Heinz; Pickle man; Killing Fields
7 4 - Cambodian Big Slick
7 3 - Swedish Busboy (Sven with a Tray)
7 2 - beer hand(If you win with this, you have to buy everyone a round.); The Hammer; The Whip (The worst hand in poker); PAR; Death (Because you're dead if you go All-In with this hand); The Big Man Hand (because it take a Big Man to play it.)
6 9 - Big Lick
6 6 - Satan's Starter Set; Boots; Hellish; Route 66;
6 5 - Ken Warren
6 4 - The Rabbit
6 3 - blocky; 3dozen (36)
6 2 - Ainsworth; CowBoy Wolford
5 5 5 - Washington Monument
5 5 - Presto; Speed limit; Double Nickels
5 4 - Jesse James(The outlaw was rumored to have been shot by a .45); Money maker; Jane Russell
5 3 - Bully Johnson
5 2 - Two Bits (25 cents); Quarter
4 4 4 4 - Sailboats
4 4 4 - Grand Jury; Sailboats
4 5 - Jesse James
4 4 - Sailboats; Magnum; Crooked Houses; Drunk Man's Rockets ; Drunk Man's Aces
4 4 - Darth Vader (The 2 black 4's are the Dark Force)
4 2 - Lumberman's hand; Lumberjack; Wood (2x4)
3 3 3 3 - treys
3 3 3 - Forest; nine; treys
3 3 - Crabs; treys; Pocket Butt Cheeks
3 2 - Little Pete; polish Big Slick; Mississippi Big Slick; Mice and Lice (because they are parasites); Big Gulp (The first 32oz drink); Hooter Hand (Minimum measurements to fit the uniform at Hooters)
2 2 2 - Huey, Dewey & Louie; Quackers
2 2 - Quackers; Ducks; Deuces; Barely Legal (Just over 21); Deuces never loses (bad rhyme); Mini-Me
 
 
 
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