Many individual cards and hands have slang names in poker. Some examples:
- Dead Man's Hand: Two pair, aces and eights. This is the hand held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was shot and killed, and plays a relatively wide cultural role.
- Pink, All Pink: Flush of Hearts or Diamonds
- Blue, All Blue: Flush of Clubs or Spades
- Puppy Feet, Pups: Flush of Clubs
- One Jack Off: JJJxx
- Motown: JJ55x (Jacks and Fives, Jackson Five)
- Wheel: Ace to five low straight, also known as a Bicycle, or "The Name of the Game" in Bicycle.
- Steel wheel: Ace-to-five straight flush.
- Big Bobtail: An open ended 4 card straight flush.
- Boat: Short for Full Boat which means Full House, often declared as XXXs full of YYs, such as "Aces full of Jacks" where the hand is AAAJJ.
- Trips: Three of a kind
- Quads: Four of a kind
Specifically, in the pocket in Texas hold 'em (the "s" stands for suited):
- A-A: Pocket Rockets, American Airlines, Bullets, Bulls
- A-K: Big Slick
- A-Q: Little Slick, Catch of the Day, The Doyle Brunson (Doyle is famous for never playing this hand)
- A-J: Blackjack, Ajax, Apple Jacks
- A-10: Johnny Moss, Corners
- A-5: Little Corners
- A-9: Not Spades
- A-8: Dead Man
- K-K: Cowboys
- K-Q: Marriage, (offsuit) Mixed Marriage
- K-J: Kojak
- K-9: The Animal, Canine, (offsuit) Sawmill
- K-3: Seafood hand (King Crab)
- K-2: Steep Climb
- Q-Q: Ladies, Siegfried & Roy, Snowshoes, four tits, Wal-Mart Shoppers
- Q-5: Granny Mae
- Q-4: B-Diddy
- Q-3: Gay Waiter, San Francisco Busboy ("Queen with a trey|tray")
- Q-3s: Posh Gay Waiter
- J-A: Jack Ass
- J-J: Fishhooks, Hooks, Jokers, Kid Dynomite (after J. J. Evans)
- J-5: Jackson Five
- J-4: Flat tire ("What's a jack for?")
- 10-9(clubs): Mile Higher
- 10-4: Broderick Crawford, Good Buddy, Over and Out
- 10-2: Doyle Brunson
- 9-9: Barbara Feldon
- 9-8: Oldsmobile
- 9-5: Dolly Parton
- 8-8: Snowmen
- 7-7: Walking Sticks, Sunset Strip
- 7-2: Beer Hand
- 7-2 offsuit: Deadly Teddy Lee, Jamaican Air
- 7-2 suited: Prom Night Teddy Lee
- 6-9: Big Lick, Porno
- 6-9s: Prom Night ("Sixty-nine suited")
- 6-6: Route 66
- 6-3: Blocky
- 5-10: Woolworth
- 5-5: Presto, Speed Limit
- It is traditional to exclaim "Presto!" while revealing the pocket fives if the hand wins.
- 4-7: Forty-seven
- 4-5: Jesse James Colt 45
- 4-4: Sailboats
- 3-A: Baskin-Robbins
- 3-9: Jack Benny
- 3-8: Raquel Welch
- 3-3: Crabs
- 2-J: Lindsey's Lovers
- 2-9: Twiggy
- 2-2: Ducks
In the hole in Omaha hold'em:
Including the board, in Omaha hold 'em:
See also: Poker jargon
