AA : American Airlines, Pocket Rockets, Rockets, Bullets, The Boots, Two Pips, Sticks,
Snake Eyes, Flying Nazis, Teepees, Alan Alda, Sharp Tops
KK : Cowboys, King Kong, Kangaroos, Kray Twins, Ace Magnets, Doughnuts (Krispy
Kreme)
QQ : The Ladies, Jailhouse Rock, Siegfried and Roy, Flower Girls, Hilton sisters, Snow
Shoes, Whores, Bitches, Hookers, Canadian Rockets, Canadian Aces,
Siegfried & Roy, Four Tits, Double date, Jailhouse Rock, Snowshoes, Mop Squeezers, Divas, Calamity Jane
JJ : Fishhooks, hooks, Johnnies, Jay Birds, Kid Dynamite, Gents, Dyne-O-Mite (JJ from
Good Times),
TT : Dimes
99 : Mints (after eights…), Popeyes, Red Balloons (from the song by Nena). German
Virgin (nein nein), Gretzky, Popeye's, Phil Hellmuth
88 : Snowmen, Two fat Ladies, Racetracks, Chinese Aces, Dog Balls, Octopuses, Piano
Keys, Racetracks, Double Infinities, Wurlitzer, Little Oldsmobile
77 : Saturn, Mullets, Sunset Strip, Walking Sticks, Hockey Sticks
66 : Route 66, Kicks, Cherries
55 : Presto, Speed limit, Nickels
44 : Sailboats, Midlife Crisis, Magnum, Darth Vader (black fours)
33 : Treys, Crabs, Larry Bird, Hooters, City Park
22 : Ducks, Pocket Swans, The Larte, Desmond, Deuces, Pocket Swans, Quack Quack
AK : Big Slick, Space Cowboy, Walking Back to Houston, Machine Gun, Big Ugly
(offsuit), Big Slick in a Suit (suited), Santa Barbara, Anna Kournikova,
Salt Lake Pair
AQ : Little slick, Big Chick
AJ : Black Jack, Ajax, Rockette, Adam and Joe, Apple Jacks, Jackass, Apple Juice.
AT : Johnny Moss, Corners, Bookends
A8 : The Dead Man’s hand, Reet Candy.
A5 : High Five.
A4 : Plane Crash, Transvestite (looks like AA but it ain't...)
A3 : Ash tray, Baskin Robbins (31 flavours of ice cream).
A2 : Hunting Season (a bullet and a duck), Acey-Duecey, Little Slick.
KQ : Marriage, Royalty.
KJ : Kojack, Bill Filmath, Bachelor’s Hand (Jack King Off), King John, Tucson Monster.
KT : Katie.
K9 : Canine, Saw Mill, Fido, What a Dog, Mutts nuts
K8 : Royal Banquet, Kokomo, The Dancing Hand.
K7 : Columbia river.
K4 : Sex.
K3 : King crab, Seafood.
QJ : Maverick.
QT : Quint, Goolsby, Varkonyi
Q8 : Kuwait.
Q7 : The Computer Hand (according to a computer simulation this is the median hand)
Q5 : Granny Mae.
Q3 : Gay Waiter (Queen with a trey).
JQ : Oedipus
JT : Cloutier
J8 : Dahmer (Jeffery Dahmer ate Jack)
J7 : Jack Daniels.
J6 : Railroad Hand.
J5 : Motown ( Jacks and Fives – say fast )
J4 : Flat Tyre (play on words – What’s a jack for?).
T9 : Countdown.
T8 : Rosary, Hail Mary.
T7 : Bowling Hand (seven-ten is the big split in ten pin bowling)
T5 : Woolworth, Five and Dime.
T4 : Broderick Crawford, Over and Out, Convoy.
T2 : Doyle Brunson, Texas Dolly (Doyle Brunson won the WSOP twice with this hand, in
1976 and 1977).
98 : Oldsmobile.
96 : Big Lick, Joe Bernstein, Dinner for Two Suited : Prom night, posh meal for two.
95 : Dolly Parton (Sang the song 9 to 5).
94 : San Francisco, Gold Rush
93 : Jack Benny (he always claimed to be 39 years old).
92 : The Montana Banana (Article 92 made poker legal in the state of Montana).
87 : RPM
84 : George Orwell
83 : Raquel Welch.
76 : Union Oil, Philadelphia
75 : Heinz, Ketchup.
74 : Double down
73 : Hachem (Joe Hachem flopped a straight with this hand in the WSOP 2005 to win it).
72 : Beer Hand, The hammer, The Worst Hand in Poker, Teddy Lee.
65 : Retirement.
64 : Arlo, The Hennessey.
63 : Blocky.
54 : Jesse James, Colt, The Moneymaker (Chris Moneymaker‘s winning hand WSOP
2003; Stu Ungar’s winning hand WSOP 1980).
53 : The JymJam.
52 : The Powerhouse.
43 : George W Bush (43rd president).
42 : The Mad Yank, Bill Clinton (42nd president), Lumberman’s hand.
32 : The Hooter hand, Mississippi Slick, Michael Jordan
AKQJT : Broadway
A2345 : Wheel, Bike; Suited : Steel wheel
KKK : Three Wise Men
777 : Slot machine
QQKK : Mommas and Poppas
AK47 : Assault Rifle
222 : Huey, Dewey and Louie
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