Poker Hand Names and Cards Nicknamens

Basics for playing every game are not the same as it may seem at first. You have probably noticed that in gaming and blackjack books terms and names used for roulette, blackjack, poker and slots games are different so are the rules of How To Play Roulette or poker. Below there is the list of the popular poker individual card and hands nicknames. You may have heard some names and they made you a bit bewildered. In order to avoid such situations learn the most widespread as well as the least common names. You will notice that some of the cards and hands were given the nicknames because of different associations, resemblance and historical facts. Evidently all these are not the official names of the hands and cards but they may be used quite often by the professional poker players.

Individual Cards

Ace - Bullet

King - Cowboy

Queen - Lady, and Dyke, Dame, Girl

Jack - Fishhook and Knave and Hook, Johnny, and Valet

10 - Dime

9 - Niner and Nina Ross

8 - Ocho, and Snowman and Fat Lady

7 - Hockey Stick

6 - Boot

5 - Five spot, Nickel

4 - Sharp Top, Sailboat

3 - Trey

2 - Duck, Deuce, and Quacker

Paired Starting Poker Hand Names

AA - Pocket Rockets, Rockets, Bullets

KK - King Kong, Cowboy Wolford

QQ - Hookers and Whores, Four Tits and Ladies and Siegfried & Roy, Mop Squeezers, The Hilton Sisters, Canadian Aces

JJ - Hooks, Jokers and Jay Birds

TT - Tension, TNT and Boxcars

99 - Popeye's and Gretzky, and Phil Hellmuth, German virgins, and Barbara Feldon

88 - Fat Ladies, and Snowmen, Dog Balls and Race Tracks, Little Oldsmobile and Octopussy

77 - Walking Sticks, Sunset Strip

66 - Kicks, Route 66

55 - Presto

44 - Sail Boats

33 - Treys and Crabs

22 - Pocket Swans, Ducks, and Dueces, and Quack Quack

Unpaired Starting Poker Hand Names

AK - Big Slick, and Santa Barbara and Big Slick in A Suit(suited), Korean Airlines, Walking back to Houston

AQ - Big Slut, Big Chick, and Doyle Brunson, and Little Slick

AJ - Jackass, and Ajax, and Blackjack

AT - Bookend

A8 - Dead Man's Hand

A5 - High Five

A3 - Friday The 13th

A2 - Acey-Deucy

KQ - Marriage

KJ - Tucson Monster, Starsky and Hutch

KT - Katie

K9 - What a Dog, and Canine and Fido

K8 - Kate

K7 - Columbia River

K3 - Commander Crab

QJ - Maverick and Oedipus

Q7 - Computer Hand

Q5 - Granny Mae

Q3 - San Francisco Busboy

J5 - Jackson Five and Bubblegum Soul and Motown, and Rock and Roll

J4 - Flat Ties, Hooks

T8 - Tetris

T7 - Bowling Hand

T5 - Nickel and Dime

T4 - Convoy and Broderick Crawford, Over and Out, Trucker and Roger That

T2 - Texas Dolly

98 - Oldsmobile

96 - Big Lick, Happy Meal, and From Night, The Good Lover

95 - Dolly Parton

94 - Joe Montana Banana

92 - Twiggy and Montana Banana

87 - RPM

84 - Big Brother

83 - Raquel Welch, Most ferared hand in Hold'em

76 - Union Oil

57 - Heinz

72 - Hammer and Beer Hand

54 - Jesse James and Colt and Jane Russell