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Name Game
You have to praise all the poker players in our history. They have not only helped improve poker as a gambling game, they have also come up with such interesting names for poker hands. Such creativity should never go unappreciated.
You do not believe that our poker forefathers have been so amazingly creative? Then, just look at these monikers for some poker hands. After reading them, it would be hard for you to deny that poker players are not just critical, but creative as well. The most powerful non-pair hand in poker is the big slick. It consists of the highest and the second highest cards in the deck, that are the ace and the king.
On the other hand, a variation of the big slick is the big chick. The big chick in poker is composed of an ace and a queen. The slick was replaced by chick because of the queen cards, which is the feminine card out of all the cards in the deck.
Another high non-pair hand is the ace and the jack, which is known by experts in poker as the ajax. The A stands for the ace card while the JAX stands for the jack card. Ajax is a common cleaning detergent, that is why it is easy to remember the term ajax because it has a recall.
A type of hand which has an ace paired with an 8 is called the dead man's hand. Why is it called as such? A great poker player was shot dead while he was holding this type of hand, hence the name dead man's hand.
Another hand named after a poker player is the ten and two. It was named after Texas Dolly because this was the hand he won a poker tournament with, twice, which is not an easy feat.
One of the most creative names for poker hands that you can come across is the queen with a tray. Can you guess what this hand is? It is the queen and a three. Put some slang on the three and you will have the tray. It is also sometimes called as gay waiter, for who else carries a tray but a waiter. However, waiters are men, but you got a queen, which is feminine. So a feminine man with a tray makes a gay waiter.
Another popular hand moniker is the Jackson five, which is a hand with a jack and a five. It is pretty obvious, the Jackson stands for the jack.