Hand Names
In Texas Hold ‘Em poker, each player is dealt two starting cards. And though the cards come out randomly, there are certain combinations of cards that are known by a nickname, which you’ll often hear poker players and commentators use.
Here’s a few colorful names given to powerful poker hands:
* Pocket Rockets or Bullets - an obvious choice for pocket Aces.
* Big Slick - an Ace with a King, a powerful starting hand.
* Cowboys - pocket Kings.
* Ajax - an Ace with a Jack
* Broadway - a straight that goes from ten up to the Ace.
* Dead Man’s Hand - an Ace with an 8, the infamous hand supposedly held by an American frontier character who was shot in the back while holding these cards.
* Ducks - a pair of twos.
* Doyle Brunson - a 10 with a 2, the hand Brunson won the WSOP with two times.
* Wheel - a straight from the Ace to 5.
* Steel Wheel - the Ace-5 straight flush.
* Sailboats - pocket fours because of their resemble to a sailboat silhouette.
* Snowmen - a pair of eights.
* A Royal - the highest straight flush possible, from ten to Ace, all the same suit.
* Crabs - a pair of threes.
* Wired pair - when a player is holding a pocket pair rather than just pairing the board.