Cards and Poker Hand Name
Nicknames are a very common thing for any game, specially for bingo and poker. You will not find many of them for blackjack download, online roulette or slots rules. On this page there is the list of the most traditional poker hand name and individual cards nicknames. You may have heard some nicknames and it made you a little bit astonished. To avoid such situations familiarize with the most popular as well as the least traditional names. You will notice that some of the cards and hands were given the nicknames due to some associations, resemblance and historical background. Evidently all these are not the official nicknames of the cards and hands, nonetheless, they can be used very often by the professional players.
Separate Cards Name
Ace - Bullet
King - Cowboy
Queen - Dyke and Lady, Bitch and Cowgirl, Mop Squeezer
Jack - Hook, and Fishhook, Johnny, Jackal and Valet
10 - Dime
9 - Nina Ross
8 - Ocho and Snowman
7 - Hockey Stick
6 - Boot
5 - Nickel and Five spot
4 - Four spot, and Sailboat and Sharp Top
3 - Crab, and Trey
2 - Duck, Deuce and Quacker
Paired Starting Poker Hand Name
AA - Rockets, Bullets, American Airlines
KK - King Kong, and Cowboys, Cowboy Wolford
QQ - Ladies, Hookers, and Siegfried & Roy, Double date, and Jailhouse Rock and Canadian Aces, and The Hilton Sisters
JJ - Hooks and Fishhooks, Jokers, Jay Birds
TT - Tension and Dimes, Binary, Dynamite and TNT, and Boxcars
99 - Phil Hellmuth, Popeye's, Barbara Feldon
88 - Fat Ladies and Snowmen, Race Tracks, Dog Balls, Octopussy, and Infinities and Double Infinity
77 - Hockey Sticks
66 - Cherries, and Boots, Kicks, Route 66
55 - Speed Limit, Presto
44 - Sail Boats
33 - Treys
22 - Quack Quack
Not paired Starting Poker Hand Name
AK - Santa Barbara, Anna Kournikova, Walking back to Houston
AQ - Doyle Brunson
AJ - Blackjack
AT - Johnny Moss
A8 - Dead Man's Hand
A5 - High Five
A3 - Baskin and Robbins
A2 - Drinking Age, and Acey-Deucy and Hunting Season
KQ - Mixed Marriage, Marriage
KJ - Tucson Monster and King John
KT - Katie
K9 - Canine, What a Dog, and Fido
K8 - Kate
K7 - Columbia River
K3 - Commander Crab
QJ - Oedipus
Q7 - Computer Hand
Q5 - Granny Mae
Q3 - San Francisco Busboy
J5 - Bubblegum Soul, and Rock and Roll, and Jackson Five
J4 - Flat Ties, Hooks, and Flat tyre
T8 - Tetris
T7 - Bowling Hand
T5 - Five and Dime and Woolworths
T4 - Convoy and Broderick Crawford, Trucker’s Special and Roger That
T2 - Texas Dolly
98 - Oldsmobile
96 - Joe Bernstein, and Dinner for Two, Big Lick, From Night
95 - Dolly Parton and Nine to Five
94 - Joe Montana Banana
92 - Montana Banana, Twiggy
87 - RPM
84 - Big Brother
83 - Most ferared hand in Hold'em, and Raquel Welch
76 - Union Oil
75 - Heinz
72 - Beer Hand, and Hammer
54 - Jane Russell, and Colt, Jesse James