Popular Poker Hand Slang
If you’re going to be playing a lot of poker, you should start learning the lingo. It’ll help improve your table image, your own personal satisfaction of the game and you’ll be able to follow just about any poker conversation or topic of discussion brought up during the session. Here are some of the most popular poker hand names you’ll come across. Knowing some of the more obscure ones will definitely impress a lot of players.
A-A – Pocket Rockets
A-K – Big Slick
A-J — Ajax
K-K – Cowboys
K-Q – Marriage
K-J – Kojak
K-9 - Canine
Q-Q –Siegfried & Roy
Q-J – Maverick
Q-7 - Computer Hand
Q-3 – A San Francisco Busboy
J-J – Hooks
J-9 – T.J. Cloutier.
J-5 – Jackson Five
10-5 – Five and dime
10-2 – Doyle Brunson. (He won two World Series of Poker titles with this hand.)
9-5 – Dolly Parton
9-9 – Meat hooks
8-8 – Snowmen
7-7 – Hockey Sticks
7-2 – The Hammer
5-5 – Nickels
5-4 – Jesse James, for his Colt .45
4-4 — Sailboats
2-2 — Ducks
