Most casino games demand special online strategies and knowledge of some basics - like in the roulette download game you should study the names of best and payouts before you move to selected sites on roulette. On this page you will read the information on the individual card and poker hand nickname. Maybe you have heard some of nicknames and it made you a little confused. To avoid such situations study the most frequently used as well as the least common names. You may notice that some of the cards and hands got the names due to different associations, resemblance and historical facts. Obviously these are not the official nicknames of the cards and hands nevertheless they may be used quite often by the advanced poker players.
Separate Cards
- Ace (A) - Bullet, Rocket
- King (K) - Cowboy
- Queen (Q) - Lady, Girl, and Mop Squeezer
- Jack (J) - Fishhook, and Knave, Hook, Valet and Johnny
- 10 (T) - Dime
- 9 - Niner, Nina Ross
- 8 - Ocho
- 7 - Hockey Stick
- 6 - Boot
- 5 - Nickel
- 4 - Sailboat and Four spot, Sharp Top
- 3 - Trey
- 2 - Deuce
Paired Starting Poker Hand Nickname
- AA - Pocket Rockets, Bullets
- KK - Cowboys, Cowboy Wolford, Krispy Kreme
- QQ - Whores and Hookers and Ladies, and Four Tits, Canadian Aces and Double date
- JJ - Hooks, and Fishhooks, Jokers
- TT - Dimes, Tension and Binary, Boxcars
- 99 - Gretzky, Phil Hellmuth, Barbara Feldon
- 88 - Snowmen, Fat Ladies, Dog Balls and Race Tracks, Octopussy, Double Infinity and Little Oldsmobile
- 77 - Mullets
- 66 - Route 66, and Cherries, Boots and Kicks
- 55 - Presto, Speed Limit
- 44 - Sail Boats, and Magnum
- 33 - Crabs, Hooters, and Treys
- 22 - Quack Quack, Dueces and Ducks, and Pocket Swans
Unpaired Starting Poker Hand Nickname
- AK - Big Slick, Santa Barbara, Big Slick in A Suit(suited), Anna Kournikova, Machine Gun
- AQ - Little Slick, Big Chick, and Big Slut, and Doyle Brunson
- AJ - Ajax, and Jackass
- AT - Johnny Moss
- A8 - Dead Man's Hand
- A5 - High Five
- A3 - Baskin and Robbins, Friday The 13th
- A2 - Drinking Age, Acey-Deucy
- KQ - Mixed Marriage
- KJ - Tucson Monster, Kojak, King John, Starsky and Hutch, Harry Potter
- KT - Katie
- K9 - Canine and What a Dog, Fido
- K8 - Kate
- K7 - Columbia River
- K3 - Alaska Hand, and Commander Crab
- QJ - Maverick, Oedipus
- Q7 - Computer Hand
- Q5 - Granny Mae
- Q3 - Gay Waiter and San Francisco Busboy
- J5 - Rock and Roll, and Jackson Five and Bubblegum Soul and Motown
- J4 - Hooks
- T8 - Tetris
- T7 - Bowling Hand
- T5 - Woolworths, Nickel and Dime, Five and Dime
- T4 - Good Buddy and Broderick Crawford, Convoy, Trucker, and Roger That
- T2 - Texas Dolly
- 98 - Oldsmobile
- 96 - Big Lick, Joe Bernstein, Dinner for Two, The Good Lover and From Night
- 95 - Hard Working Man, Dolly Parton
- 94 - Joe Montana Banana
- 92 - Montana Banana, Twiggy
- 87 - RPM
- 84 - Big Brother
- 83 - Raquel Welch
- 76 - Union Oil
- 75 - Heinz
- 72 - Beer Hand, and Hammer
- 54 - Jesse James