Slang for Poker Hands
Slang for Poker Hands
Nicknames for Hold'em Hole Cards
If you play or watch Texas Holdem at all, you'll start hearing people announce they've got "Big Slick" or "I've got snowmen!" They're not being literal -- they're talking about the hole or pocket cards they've been dealt in the lingo of poker.
Learn the slang for poker hands so when you hear these nicknames while playing Texas Hold'em, you'll know what everyone is talking about.
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A-A – American Airlines, bullets, pocket rockets
A-K – Big Slick, “Walking back to Houston”
A-J -- Ajax
K-K – Cowboys
K-Q – Marriage
K-J – Kojak
K-9 -- Canine
Q-Q – Dames, divas, ladies, the Hilton sisters, Siegfried & Roy
Q-J – Maverick, Oedipus Rex
Q-7 -- Computer Hand
Q-3 – A San Francisco Busboy (a queen with a trey – har har)
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Poker Lingo
Snow men are pkct 88, Pckt 22 are ducks, & 77 hockey sticks. 
