Brontekst bekijken van Poker Slang Terms

A player checks his cards during the finals of the Russian  [http://vbandar.info capsa] [http://www.travelpod.com/s/Masters%20Poker Masters Poker] Cup.<br>Vladimir Konstantinov/Reuters<br><br><br><br><br>One of the most fun things about poker is the witty slang terms for different hands.<br><br>And with the 2016 World Series of Poker<br>getting underway in Las Vegas, we thought now was a good time to revisit some of our favorites:<br><br><br>Two Aces are usually called<br>Pocket Rockets<br>. But Star Wars enthusiasts call them<br>Admiral Ackbar<br>when a player holds the aces to trap<br>another player.<br><br><br>An Ace and King is usually called Big Slick<br>because it is a slippery hand with which one can easily lose a fortune. However, tennis fans sometimes call it the Anna Kournikova<br>because of the initials and because it "l<br>ooks good, but never wins<br>."<br><br><br>Two Kings are almost always called Cowboys<br>. <br><br>An A-8 is usually called the Dead Man's hand<br> because these were two of the cards Wild Bill Hickok was holding<br>when he was killed in 1876. It's also <br>sometimes<br>called an Asterix and Obelix<br> — a reference to a series of French comics. <br><br>Two Queens can be called Canadian Aces<br>, referring<br>to The Queen of England's relationship to Canada. <br><br>A Queen and Jack (QJ) can be called the Oedipus<br>, which is a reference<br>to Queen Jocasta and her son/[http://www.Exeideas.com/?s=husband husband] Oedipus from the Greek tragedy. <br><br>Two Jacks are called Kid Dy-no-mite,<br>which was the signature phrase<br>of JJ from the show "Good Times."<br><br><br>Two 9s are called the Wayne Gretzky<br> in honor of his jersey number. <br><br>Two 8s are called snowmen<br> — just because the numbers visually resemble them. <br><br>Two 4s are called the Midlife Crisis<br>. <br><br>And two 2s are called a Richard Nixon<br>because<br>of that famous photo<br>of him giving two peace signs off a helicopter.