Liz Lieu takes chip lead at the World Poker Challenge
At last year's World Poker Challenge, the number of entrants fell under the 400 mark. This year it was a much different story. 592 players filed into...
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Poker Hand Nicknames
You've heard it before - "pocket rockets"
or "cowboys"... but what's it all mean? On top of
knowing how to play poker, it's useful (and impressive) to know
the poker lingo. Poker players have nicknames
for a lot of hands, and it’s good to know them. It’s
not a disaster to hear someone say “I have spare tire”
and not know what it means, but you look cooler if you do.
Since we all know the purpose of poker is
to look cool, here are some poker hand nicknames:
- AA: probably has the most nicknames. “Bullets”
and “pocket rockets” don’t require a lot of
explanation, and I’ve thought American Airlines intentionally
planted their name as another AA nickname. - KK: the uncreative
nickname is “cowboys.” Those in the know prefer
“ace magnets” (as in, “Whenever I have KK,
there’s an A on the flop.”) - JJ: “Hooks.”
- 99: “German Virgin” or "Phil Hellmuth".
Learning poker strategy is nice and all,
but what’s it worth if you don’t know that a spare
tire is J4 (as in, “What’s a jack for?”)
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