Poker Slang

  1. A-A: American Airlines, bullets, pocket rockets
  2. A-K: Big Slick, “Walking back to Houston”
  3. A-Q: Little Slick
  4. A-J: Ajax, Trepasso
  5. A-8: Dead man’s hand
  6. K-K: Cowboys
  7. K-Q: Marriage
  8. K-J: Kojak
  9. K-9: Canine
  10. Q-Q: Dames, divas, ladies, the Hilton sisters, Siegfried & Roy
  11. Q-J: Maverick, Oedipus Rex
  12. Q-7: Computer Hand
  13. Q-3: San Francisco Busboy (a queen with a trey)
  14. J-J: Jokers, hooks
  15. J-9: T.J. Cloutier.
  16. J-5: Jackson Five, Motown
  17. 10-4: Trucker
  18. 10-2: Doyle Brunson. (He won two WSOP titles with this hand)
  19. 9-9: Wayne Gretzky
  20. 9-8: Oldsmobile
  21. 9-5 : Dolly Parton
  22. 8-8: Snowmen, Octopuses
  23. 7-10: Split
  24. 7-7: Hockey Sticks, candy canes, sunset strip
  25. 7-2: The Hammer, Beer Hand (worst starting hand in hold’em)
  26. 6-9: Big lick, prom date
  27. 6-6: Route 66
  28. 5-10: Five and dime, Woolworth’s
  29. 5-5: Nickels, presto, the speed limit
  30. 5-4: Jesse James, for his Colt .45
  31. 4-9: San Fransisco
  32. 4-4: Sailboats
  33. 3-3: Crabs
  34. 2-2: Ducks