List of slang names for poker hands - Definition and Overview

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:

• A-K-4-7: Assault Rifle

Including the board, in Omaha hold 'em:

• four pairs: Noah's Ark

See also: Poker jargon