Hands and Poker Card Names
Most players are probably familiar with information on online casino games, about how to choose the gambling room from the selected slots sites or poker rooms and about the Internet casinos transactions. Below you will find the listing of the popular individual poker card names and hands nicknames. Maybe you have heard some nicknames and they made you a little bewildered. In order to avoid such situations study the most popular as well as not so common poker hand and poker card names. You will note that some hands and cards were given their names due to some associations, visual resemblance and historical facts. Obviously these are not the official nicknames of the hands and poker card names, however, they may be applied very often by the experienced poker players.
Individual Poker Card Names
Ace - Rocket and Bullet
King - Cowboy
Queen - Lady, Girl
Jack - Fishhook, and Hook, Johnny, and Jackal, Valet
10 - Dime
9 - Nina Ross
8 - Fat Lady
7 - Hockey Stick
6 - Boot
5 - Five spot
4 - Sharp Top, Four spot and Sailboat
3 - Crab
2 - Duck, Deuce
Paired Starting poker Hands in Hold’em
AA - Rockets, Pocket Rockets, American Airlines, and Bullets
KK - Cowboys, Gorillas and King Kong, Cowboy Wolford, Kangaroos, and Krispy Kreme
QQ - Siegfried & Roy, Double date, and The Hilton Sisters and Canadian Aces
JJ - Hooks, Jokers, Devils, Jay Birds
TT - Dimes, and Tension, and Binary, Dynamite, Boxcars
99 - Popeye's and Gretzky, German virgins
88 - Snowmen and Fat Ladies, Race Tracks, and Dog Balls, and Two fat ladies, Octopussy and Little Oldsmobile, Doggie Balls
77 - Hockey Sticks, Saturn, Sunset Strip and Mullets, Walking Sticks
66 - Kicks and Cherries
55 - Speed Limit
44 - Sail Boats
33 - Treys, and Crabs, Hooters
22 - Ducks, Dueces, and Pocket Swans and Quack Quack
Unpaired Starting poker Hands in Hold’em
AK - Big Slick in A Suit(suited), Machine Gun, and Korean Airlines
AQ - Little Slick, Doyle Brunson
AJ - Jackass, Ajax
AT - Johnny Moss
A8 - Dead Man's Hand
A5 - High Five
A3 - Ashtray and Baskin and Robbins
A2 - Royalty
KQ - Mixed Marriage
KJ - Tucson Monster, King John, Starsky and Hutch
KT - Katie
K9 - Fido, and Canine
K8 - Kate
K7 - Columbia River
K3 - King Crab, and Alaska Hand and Commander Crab and Three Kings
QJ - Maverick
Q7 - Computer Hand
Q5 - Granny Mae
Q3 - San Francisco Busboy
J5 - Jackson Five, Bubblegum Soul
J4 - Flat tyre, Flat Ties
T8 - Tetris
T7 - Bowling Hand
T5 - Five and Dime and Woolworths, Nickel and Dime
T4 - Broderick Crawford, Convoy, Good Buddy, Trucker’s Special, Roger That, Trucker, and Over and Out
T2 - Texas Dolly and Doyle Brunson
98 - Oldsmobile
96 - Joe Bernstein, The Good Lover
95 - Hard Working Man, and Nine to Five, Dolly Parton
94 - Joe Montana Banana
92 - Twiggy, Montana Banana
87 - RPM
84 - Big Brother
83 - Most ferared hand in Hold'em, Raquel Welch
76 - Union Oil
75 - Heinz
72 - Hammer, Beer Hand
54 - Jesse James and Colt