List of slang names for poker hands

From Academic Kids

Many individual cards and hands have slang names in poker. Some examples:

Dead Man's Hand: Two pair, aces and eights. This is the hand held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was shot and killed, and plays a relatively wide cultural role.
Pink, All Pink: Flush of Hearts or Diamonds
Blue, All Blue: Flush of Clubs or Spades
Puppy Feet, Pups: Flush of Clubs
One Jack Off: JJJxx
Motown: JJ55x (Jacks and Fives, Jackson Five)
Wheel: Ace to five low straight, also known as a Bicycle, or "The Name of the Game" in Bicycle.
Steel wheel: Ace-to-five straight flush.
Big Bobtail: An open ended 4 card straight flush.
Boat: Short for Full Boat which means Full House, often declared as XXXs full of YYs, such as "Aces full of Jacks" where the hand is AAAJJ.
Trips: Three of a kind
Quads: Four of a kind

Specifically, in the pocket in Texas hold 'em:

A-A: Pocket Rockets, American Airlines, Bullets, Bulls
A-K: Big Slick
A-Q: Little Slick, Mrs. Slick, Big clit, Catch of the Day, Doyle Brunson (see note at bottom)
A-J: Blackjack, Ajax, Apple Jacks
A-10: Johnny Moss, Corners
A-9: Not Spades
A-8: Dead Man's Hand (by analogy with Wild Bill's aces and eights)
A-5: Little Corners
K-K: Cowboys, Penn and Teller, Elvis Presley
K-Q: Marriage, (offsuit) Mixed Marriage, Royalty
K-J: Kojak
K-9: The Animal, Canine, (offsuit) Sawmill
K-8: The NY Heart Attack, (a NYC player died holding this hand, April, 2005)
K-3: Seafood hand (King Crab)
K-2: Steep Climb
Q-Q: Ladies, Siegfried & Roy, Snowshoes, four tits, Wal-Mart Shoppers, The Hilton Sisters
Q-5: Granny Mae
Q-4: B-Diddy
Q-3: Gay Waiter, San Francisco Busboy ("Queen with a trey|tray")
Q-3 suited: Posh Gay Waiter
J-A: Jack Ass
J-K offsuit: Bachelor's Hand (because it's "Jack-King, off")
J-J: Fishhooks, Hooks, Jokers, Kid Dynomite (after J. J. Evans)
J-7: Jack Daniel's
J-5: Jackson Five
J-4: Flat tire ("What's a jack for?")
10-10: Rin Tin Tin
10-9 clubs: Mile Higher
10-4: Broderick Crawford, Good Buddy, Over and Out
10-2: Doyle Brunson (see note at bottom)
9-9: Barbara Feldon, Wayne Gretzky
9-8: Oldsmobile
9-5: Dolly Parton
8-8: Snowmen, dog balls
8-6: Hiroshima
7-7: Walking Sticks, Sunset Strip
7-6: Philadelphia
7-4: Double Down
7-2: Beer Hand
7-2 offsuit: Deadly Teddy Lee, Jamaican Air, The Hammer
7-2 suited: Prom Night Teddy Lee
6-9: Big Lick, Porno
6-9 suited: Prom Night ("Sixty-nine suited")
6-7 hearts: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
6-6: Route 66
6-5: Retirement
6-4: Omid
6-3: Blocky
5-10: Woolworth
5-9: American Pie
5-7: Heinz, Ketchup
5-6: J�germeister
5-5: Presto, Speed Limit
- It is traditional to exclaim "Presto!" while revealing the pocket fives if the hand wins.
4-A: Pearl Harbor
4-9: Gold Rush, San Francisco
4-7: Forty-seven
4-5: Jesse James, Colt 45
4-4: Sailboats
4-3: George W. Bush
4-2: Bill Clinton
3-A: Baskin-Robbins
3-9: Jack Benny
3-8: Raquel Welch
3-3: Crabs, Larry Bird
2-J: Lindsey's Lovers
2-9: Twiggy, Black Thursday
2-7: Harlem Globetrotters
2-7 offsuit: Jim Morrison
2-3: Michael Jordan
2-2: Ducks

A-Q is called the "Doyle Brunson" because Brunson rarely played this hand. 10-2 is also called the Doyle Brunson because he won the World Series of Poker with it twice in a row (1976 and 1977).

In the hole in Omaha hold'em: