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Poker Cards and Hands Nicknames

Below there is the listing of the most traditional individual poker cards and hands nicknames. Maybe you have heard some poker cards and hands nicknames and it made you a bit confused. In order to avoid such situations look through the most frequently used and not so common nicknames. You must note that some poker cards and hands received their nicknames due to various associations, resemblance and historical facts. Obviously all these are not the official poker cards names and hands nicknames, nonetheless, they can be used quite often by the experienced gamblers.

Separate Poker Cards

  • Ace - Rocket and Bullet
  • King - Cowboy
  • Queen - Dame, Mop Squeezer
  • Jack - Hook, Knave, and Fishhook, Jackal, Valet, and Johnny
  • 10 - Dime
  • 9 - Niner
  • 8 - Fat Lady
  • 7 - Hockey Stick
  • 6 - Boot
  • 5 - Five spot
  • 4 - Sharp Top, and Sailboat, Four spot
  • 3 - Trey
  • 2 - Quacker

Paired Starting Hands in Texas Holdem

  • AA - Rockets and Pocket Rockets, Bullets
  • KK - Cowboys, and King Kong, Cowboy Wolford and Krispy Kreme, Kangaroos
  • QQ - Ladies and Four Tits, and Whores, and Hookers, Jailhouse Rock, and Canadian Aces and Double date, The Hilton Sisters
  • JJ - Hooks and Fishhooks, Jay Birds and Devils
  • TT - Binary, and Dimes, Boxcars
  • 99 - Gretzky, German virgins
  • 88 - Fat Ladies and Snowmen, Race Tracks and Two fat ladies, Doggie Balls
  • 77 - Hockey Sticks and Saturn, and Sunset Strip, Walking Sticks
  • 66 - Cherries, and Route 66 and Kicks
  • 55 - Presto
  • 44 - Magnum, Sail Boats
  • 33 - Hooters
  • 22 - Quack Quack and Dueces, Pocket Swans

Not paired Starting poker Hands in Texas Holdem

  • AK - Big Slick, Walking back to Houston and Korean Airlines and Anna Kournikova
  • AQ - Little Slick, Doyle Brunson, Big Chick, Big Slut
  • AJ - Jackass, Ajax, and Blackjack
  • AT - Bookend and Johnny Moss
  • A8 - Dead Man's Hand
  • A5 - High Five
  • A3 - Friday The 13th and Baskin and Robbins, Ashtray
  • A2 - Hunting Season and Acey-Deucy, and Drinking Age
  • KQ - Mixed Marriage and Marriage
  • KJ - Tucson Monster and Starsky and Hutch and Harry Potter
  • KT - Katie
  • K9 - What a Dog, and Canine
  • K8 - Kate
  • K7 - Columbia River
  • K3 - Three Kings
  • QJ - Oedipus
  • Q7 - Computer Hand
  • Q5 - Granny Mae
  • Q3 - San Francisco Busboy
  • J5 - Jackson Five, and Bubblegum Soul
  • J4 - Hooks
  • T8 - Tetris
  • T7 - Bowling Hand
  • T5 - Woolworths
  • T4 - Good Buddy, Broderick Crawford, Roger That and Trucker’s Special and Trucker
  • T2 - Doyle Brunson, Texas Dolly
  • 98 - Oldsmobile
  • 96 - Big Lick, and Dinner for Two, and Joe Bernstein, Happy Meal, From Night, and The Good Lover
  • 95 - Dolly Parton, and Hard Working Man
  • 94 - Joe Montana Banana
  • 92 - Montana Banana, Twiggy
  • 87 - RPM
  • 84 - Big Brother
  • 83 - Raquel Welch
  • 76 - Union Oil
  • 75 - Heinz
  • 72 - Hammer
  • 54 - Jane Russell, and Colt