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The Following Refer To Hole (Pocket) Cards in Texas Hold 'Em

This document provides slang terms used in Texas hold'em poker for various starting hole card combinations: - Pocket aces are called "Pocket Rockets" or "American Airlines". King-ace suited is called "Big Slick". - Queen-jack is sometimes called "Marriage" or "Royalty". A queen-three suited is a "Posh Gay Waiter". - Pocket tens are called "Binary" or "TNT". A ten-four is called "Broderick Crawford". - A nine-nine is sometimes called "Phil Hellmuth" or "Wayne Gretzky". A nine-six suited is called "Prom

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The Following Refer To Hole (Pocket) Cards in Texas Hold 'Em

This document provides slang terms used in Texas hold'em poker for various starting hole card combinations: - Pocket aces are called "Pocket Rockets" or "American Airlines". King-ace suited is called "Big Slick". - Queen-jack is sometimes called "Marriage" or "Royalty". A queen-three suited is a "Posh Gay Waiter". - Pocket tens are called "Binary" or "TNT". A ten-four is called "Broderick Crawford". - A nine-nine is sometimes called "Phil Hellmuth" or "Wayne Gretzky". A nine-six suited is called "Prom

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Texas hold'em slang

The following refer to hole (pocket) cards in Texas hold 'em:

Starting
Slang name
hand
AA Pocket Rockets, American Airlines, Bullets, Two Pips
Big Slick (originally referred to A♠K♠, but the name has become common
for any Ace-King, especially suited), Anna Kournikova (looks good but
rarely wins), Machine Gun (AK-47), Walking Back to Houston ("I can see
AK you learned to play in Houston. Those Houston players would come to
Dallas and play that ace-king, but they'd always end up against a pair of
aces. That's why we call that hand ‘Walking back to Houston.'" - T.J.
Cloutier, quoted by Barry Greenstein)
AQ Little Slick, Big Chick, Mrs. Slick
AJ Blackjack, Ajax, Jackass
AT Johnny Moss, A-Team, Bookends
A8 Dead Man's Hand (by analogy with Wild Bill's aces and eights)
Baskin-Robbins (plays off the number 31: 31 Flavors), Friday The 13th (An
A3
ace played low would be considered equivalent to 1)
A2 Acey-Deucey, Drinking Age
Cowboys, Elvis Presley, King Kong, Ace Magnets (when the flop comes
KK
Ace high with no King)
KQ Marriage, Royalty
KQ
Royal Marriage
suited
KQ
Mixed Marriage
unsuited
K♥Q♥ Valentine's Day
KJ Kojak, King John
KJ
Bachelor Hand (from "Jack-King-Off")
unsuited
K9 Canine, Dog, Fido, Sawmill, The Donk
K7 King Salmon
K3 King Crab, Alaska Hand, Three Kings
QQ Cowgirls, Ladies, Siegfried and Roy, Four Tits, Bitches
Maverick (the theme song for the television series Maverick speaks of the
QJ
title character as "livin' on jacks and queens")
Q-Tip, Varkonyi (named after Robert Varkonyi, 2002 World Series of Poker
QT
main event champion, who rather liked this hand)
Q9 Quinine, "The Hellory"
Q7 Computer Hand
Q3 Gay Waiter, San Francisco Busboy ("Queen with a tray")
Q3 suited Posh Gay Waiter
Q♥3♥ Flaming Gay Waiter
JJ Fishhooks, Hooks, Jokers, Kid Dyn-o-mite, Johnnies
JT Cloutier (play on name: T. J. Cloutier)
J♣9♣ T.J. Cloutier (T.J. flopped three straight flushes with this hand in one year)
J8 Jeffrey Dahmer ("Ate Jack")
J7 Jack Daniel's (Jack Old No. 7)
J6 Railroad Hand
J5 Motown, Jackson Five
J4 Flat Tire ("What's a jack for?")
TT Binary, Dimes, TNT, Boxcars
T5 Five and Dime, Woolworths
Good Buddy, Over and Out, Roger That (play on radio code 10-4),
T4
Broderick Crawford
Doyle Brunson, Texas Dolly (Brunson won the World Series of Poker Main
T2
Event with it twice in a row—1976 and 1977)
Phil Hellmuth (winning hand of the 1989 World Series of Poker Main
9♠9♣
Event)
Wayne Gretzky (his jersey number), German Virgin ("nein, nein" means
99
"no, no" in German)
98 Oldsmobile
96 Big Lick, Porno, Dinner for Two (play on number 69)
96 suited Prom Night ("Sixty-nine suited")
9♥6♥ Valentine's Day
95 Dolly Parton (she sang "9 to 5"), Full-time job
94 Gold Rush, San Francisco (play off the number 49)
93 Jack Benny (play off his running gag of always being 39 years old), The Sik
92 Montana Banana
88 Octopussy, Little Oldsmobile, Snowmen, Infinities, Double Infinity
86 Maxwell Smart (Agent 86 in Get Smart)
83 Raquel Welch
77 Hockey Sticks, Candy Canes, Walking Sticks
76 Philadelphia, Union Oil, Trombones (from the song "76 Trombones")
75 Heinz, Ketchup (play on Heinz's 57 varieties)
74 Double Down, Blackjack hand
Hachem (named for Joe Hachem, winner of 2005 World Series of Poker
73 Main Event who won the $7.5 million prize with this hand when he flopped
a straight)
The Hammer, Beer Hand (72 offsuit is the worst possible starting hand; this
72 offsuit
name implies that you would have to be drunk to play this hand.)
72 suited Velvet Hammer
66 Route 66
63 Blocky
62 Ainsworth
55 Presto, Speed Limit, Nickels
Jesse James, Colt 45 (both play off the number 45), Moneymaker (winning
54 hand of Chris Moneymaker, 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event
champion)
52 Bomber (B-52 bomber)
Sailboats (looks like two sails), Midlife Crisis, Magnum, Luke Skywalker
44
("May the fours be with you")
4♠4♣ Darth Vader ("Dark Side Of The Fours")
42 Willie Mays
33 Crabs, Hooters
32 Can of Corn
22 Ducks (from "deuces"), Swans, Sleepers, Quack Quack
any
Wired pair, Wired (for example, a starting hand of 8-8 might be called
pocket
"wired eights" or "eights wired")
pair

In addition, two types of hands are called "blackjack hands":

 Hands which are naturals in blackjack: any ace with any face or ten.
 Hands whose numeric total is 11: 9-2, 8-3, 7-4, 6-5. (In blackjack, such hands are very
good for players.)

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