Poker Lingo

Do you wanna know the poker lingo? Once you are in the poker room, you will start hearing slang terms for poker hands.

Below are the poker lingo / slang terms so that you will become familiar what everyone are talking about.

A-A – American Airlines, bullets, pocket rockets

A-K – Big Slick, “Walking back to Houston”, Anna Kournikova

A-J – Ajax

K-K – Cowboys

K-Q – Marriage

K-J – Kojak

K-9 – Canine

Q-Q – Dames, divas, ladies, the Hilton sisters, Siegfried & Roy

Q-J – Maverick, Oedipus Rex

Q-7 - Computer Hand

Q-3 – A San Francisco Busboy (a queen with a trey – har har)

J-J – Jokers, hooks

J-9 – T.J. Cloutier.

J-5 – Jackson Five, Motown

10-5 – Five and dime

10-2 – Doyle Brunson. (He won two World Series of Poker titles with this hand.)

9-9 – Meat hooks

8-8 – Snowmen, Octopuses

7-7 – Hockey Sticks, walking Sticks

7-2 – The Hammer

5-5 – Nickels, presto, speed limit

5-4 – Jesse James, for his Colt .45

4-4 – Sailboats

2-2 – Ducks