I made up my own names for the cards,as I remember associations better than numbers. How about Rocket Sex (A6), with clothes (suited. I had a lot of fun doing it.
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Poker Hand Nicknames
By songplayerSep 24, 08 01:45 PM
Yesterday a lady asked me how AK got named Big Slick and what are some of the names of other hands. The Big aspect is no mystery since it is the highest two cards you can get without having a pocket pair. It is referred to Big Slick because of the fact that it is a slippery hand that one can easily loose a fortune over. The nickname originates partly from Anna Kournikova a former tennis pro’s initials, A.K. In addition to playing on Kournikova’s intials, the hand nickname also has roots in an analogy between the pro and the hand, they both are said to look better than they play. Other nicknames for Big Slick include but not limited to are Space Cowboy, Walking Back to Houston, Big Ugly, Santa Barabara, Machine Gun, and Big Slick in a suit (if suited), Salt Lake Pair. Walking Back to Houston was named because the old time poker players would play this hand so well that they’d leave their opponents walking back to Houston.
Many of the original names were established in the old west table games. A8 "Dead Man's Hand" - Wild Bill Hickock got shot from behind holding that hand. However, with the popularity of televised poker growing, so is the list of pop cultured inspired poker hand names. Many of the most widely used poker hand nicknames are starting to get new names based on pop culture icons. Here's a few of my favorite pop culture poker hand nicknames: AK "Anna Kournikova" - she's good looking but rarely wins. QQ "Hilton Sisters" - America's Royalty.
Pairs
AA - Rockets, Pocket Rockets, Bullets, American Airlines, Sticks, Snake Eyes, Flying Nazis, Teepees, Alan Alda, Joe Louis (As-Ac), Visine (Ah-Ad), Sharp Tops
KK - Cowboys, King Kong, Gorillas, Kangaroos, Krispy Kreme, Ace Magnets
QQ - Ladies, Whores, Bitches, Hookers, Hilton Sisters, Canadian Rockets, Canadian Aces, Siegfried & Roy, Four Tits, Double date, Jailhouse Rock, Snowshoes, Pair of Wire Cutters (Dikes), Mop Squeezers, Divas, Calamity Jane
JJ - Fishhooks, hooks, Johnnies, Jay Birds, Kid Dynamite, Gents, Dyne-O-Mite (JJ from Good Times), JJ for John Juanda
TT - Dimes, Tension
99 - German Virgin ("nine nine" nine sounds like the German word for "no"), Barbara Felton (Get Smart Agent 99), Gretzky, Popeye's, Phil Hellmuth
88 - Snowmen, Dog Balls, Octopuses, Piano Keys, Racetracks, Double Infinities, Wurlitzer, Two Fat Ladies, Little Oldsmobile
77 - Walking Sticks, Hockey Sticks, Sunset Strip, Mullets, Saturn
66 - Route 66, Cherries, Kicks
55 - Manatees, Presto, Speed Limit, Nickels
44 - Magnum, Sailboats, Canadian Presto, Dirty Harry, Sailboats, Midlife Crisis, Darth Vader (black fours)
33 - Crabs, Treys, Strumpor Och Skor (Socks and Shoes)
22 - Ducks, Deuces, Pocket Swans, Quack Quack
Aces
AK - Big Slick, Space Cowboy, Walking Back to Houston, Machine Gun, Big Ugly (offsuit), Big Slick in a Suit (suited), Santa Barbara, Anna Kournikova (good looking but rarely wins), Salt Lake Pair
AQ - Big Chick, Little Slick, Doyle Brunson (in Texas)
AJ - Jack Ass, Blackjack, Ajax, Apple Jacks
AT - Johnny Moss, Bookends
A9 - Jesus/Chris Ferguson
A8 - Dead Man
A5 - High Five
A4 - Plane Crash, Transvestite (you see the first ace, and the 4 looks like another, but it turns out not to be)
A3 - Ashtray, Baskin Robbins (31 flavors)
A2 - Little Slick, Acey-Deucy, Hunting Season (a bullet and a duck)
Q7-Computer Hand
10-2-Doyle Brunson or Texas Dolly
54 - Jesse James he was allegedly killed with shot from a 45
AKQJT -Broadway
KKK-Three Wise Men
TTT-Thirty Miles of Bad Road (Gilroy to San Jose)
QQKK-Mommas and Poppas
AK47-Assault Rifle (named after the Russian machine gun)
222-Huey, Dewey and Louie (three famous ducks)
Unbeatable Hand-Nuts
I wish you a lot of luck and fun at the tables.
Hokembokem
Q/3 is the gay waiter. A Queen with a tray