Wanneer je aan het pokeren bent, heb je je eigen individuele speelkaarten in je hand. Speel je bijvoorbeeld de variant Texas Hold’m dan heb je twee kaarten, met Omaha heb je er vier. Reken je de suits niet mee, dan kan je met één deck kaarten 91 combinaties maken: aas-aas, aas-koning, aas-vrouw, etcetera, tot 2-2. Deze twee kaarten noemen we in de pokerwereld de ‘starthand’. Er zijn vele beroemde verhalen over allerlei starthanden die toernooien hebben gewonnen en grote geldprijzen hebben binnengesleept. Alle mogelijke starthanden hebben minimaal één bijnaam (nickname). Het PokerQueen team, met name Evert Zwartjens, heeft vele nicknames voor jou verzameld. Als het om een starthand gaat met een bepaalde suit, bijvoorbeeld de ruiten, is dit vermeld.
De uitleg is in het Engels, as you can see. Behalve als de bijnaam typisch Nederlands is.
A=aas, K=koning, Q=vrouw, J=boer, T=tien
s=spades
h=hearts
d=diamonds
c=clubs
Te beginnen met AA en in de loop van 2016 zal de lijst gecompleteerd worden.
AA
ALAN ALDA: An alliteration of the star from the television version of M*A*S*H.
ALBERT ANASTASIA: An alliteration of the first mob boss, killed gangland style in 1957.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: An alliteration.
AMERICAN AIRLINES: So called due to the commercial airline’s acronym AA.
A-TEAM: A group of ex-United States Army Special Forces who were wrongly convicted of a crime during the Vietnam War.
BANDITERNA (As-Ac): Swedish for ’the bandits’.
BATTERIES: Like an AA battery, commonly used in portable electronic devices.
BULLETS: Deadly weapon, possibly a reference to the dead man’s hand (AA88), suggesting that Wild Bill drew a third bullet in the back, which filled his hand in death.
BULLS
ELEVENS: In most cardgames the ace has a value of eleven.
EYES: Probably from ‘snake eyes’ (see below).
EYES OF TEXAS: From the Elvis Presley song, probably an elaboration on dice.
FLYING NAZIS: An A looks like a plane, and the nazis had the most succesful flying ‘Aces’ in their air force.
JOE LOUIS (As-Ac): Two black eyes, that you will get in the ring if you fight Joe Louis.
MASTERCARDS: Cards the make you master.
NEEDLES: Looks like needles.
POCKET ROCKETS: Looks like rockets.
ROCKY MOUNTAINS: Looks like mountains, from Mat Rampson.
SANTA CLAUSES: Their pointy hats look like aces.
SHARP TOPS: Sharp on top (see also A4).
SINTERKLAZEN: Their pointy hats look like aces.
SNAKE EYES: It’s the outcome of rolling the dice in a game of craps and getting only one pip on each dice.
SQUIRREL: This hand is the ‘nuts’. Possibly also a reference to the phrase ‘even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while’.
STICKS: Looks like sticks.
TEEPEES: Looks like teepees.
TOPGUN: The best weapon you can have.
TWO PIPS: A pip is a mark, indicating the suit or numeral value of a playing card.
VISINE (Ad-Ah): Two red eyes, it gets the red out.
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION: Two tanks loaded with rocket launchers housing surface to air missles. Both rocket launchers display the two black aces while each missle has an A on the top warhead.
KK
ACE MAGNETS: Because the ace is the only card you don’t want to see, and it seems often that kings atract aces.
BROKEBACK: Named after the movie that depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two cowboys (KK also being called ‘cowboys’).
BUTCHERS OF BAGDAD: Reference to Saddam Hussein, featured on the most wanted Iraqi playing cards.
CANNONS
COWBOYS: Probably the association between cowboys and playing poker.
COWBOY WOLFORD: Byron ‘Cowboy’ Wolford
ELVIS PRESLEY: Named after the ‘King’ of rock & roll.
GORILLAS: From King Kong.
GORILLAS IN THE MIST: From the movie starring Sigourney Weaver, a nickname for King Kong.
KANGAROOS: Kangaroos are used on children’s alphabet cards to illustrate a ‘K’.
KING KONG: An alliteration.
KINKERBELLS: Courtesy of Vince van Patten on ‘Celebrity Poker’.
KNIGHTS: An association with the feudal king images on cards.
KRISPY KREME: An alliteration.
MEN
PENN AND TELLER: American magicians and entertainers who have performed together since the late 1970s
ANGELS
BITCHES: As obviously named as cowboys.
BROADS: As shown on the cards.
CALAMITY JANE: Probably from ‘cowgirls’. Calamity Jane was also a friend of Wild Bill Hickok, a gunfighter who died during a poker game .
CANADIAN ACES: Because the Canadians revere the queen of England.
CANADIAN ROCKETS: Because the Canadians revere the queen of England.
COWGIRLS: Female equivalent of cowboys.
DAMES: Equivalent for ladies.
DIVAS: Equivalent for ladies.
DYKES: Lesbian women.
FLOWER GIRLS
FOUR TITS: Vulgar way to describe 2 women.
GIRLS: Because they are the only female cards.
GIRLS WITH CURLS
HILTON SISTERS: Jetset party girls Paris & Nicky Hilton.
HOOKERS: Vulgar way to describe 2 women.
JAILHOUSE ROCK: Homosexuality in prison.
LADIES: Queens tend to have derogatory names, especially when they lose, so ladies is more likely to be used when they win.
LESBIANS: Gay women.
MOP SQUEEZERS: Possibly look like the rollers that queeze out mops that janitorial staff use.
OLD MAIDS
PAIR OF WIRE CUTTERS: Lesbian women.
SAN FRANSISCO WEDDING: A gay reference.
SHOWGIRLS
SIEGFRIED AND ROY: Two queens.
SNOWSHOES: Probably because they are the shape of a traditional snowshoe.
SWINGING UDDERS
THE PROSTITUTE: It blows and it will cost you money.
WALMART SHOPPERS
WHORES: Vulgar way to describe 2 women.
JJ
BROTHERS: Two similar looking males, e.g. brothers.
DEVILS
FISH HOOKS: They look like them and because fish get beat with overpairs.
HOOKS: Looks like hooks.
JACKALS
JAY BIRDS / J-BIRDS: Starts with J.
JEDI KNIGHTS
JOHN JACOB: An alliteration.
JOHN JUANDA: An alliteration of an American professional poker player.
JOHNNY’S
JOKERS
KID DYN-O-MITE: Signature expression of the charcater JJ from the tv show ‘Good Times’.
KNAVES
ONE EYED JACKS (Js-Jh): Both side views.
RENT BOYS: Two young men, similar to pocket queens’ prostitute.
SHIP: Shittiest hand in poker.
TWO JAKES: The movie sequel to ‘Chinatown’, starring Jack Nicholson and Harvey Keitel.
VALETS: French for jacks.
10 10
AUDI: Named after the famous Audi TT.
BALLOONS
BARBARA FELDON
BINARY: 10 10 looks like a four digit binary string.
BO DEREK: Actress from the movie ’10’.
BOXCARS
COWBOY TIME
DIMES: A dime is a coin worth 10 cents or one tenth of a US dollar.
DYNAMITE: Comes from T and T, sounding like the explosive TNT.
RIN TIN TIN: From the Elvis Presley song, probably an elaboration on dice.
TENSION: Imitative.
TNT: Comes from T and T, sounding like the explosive TNT.
9 9
AGENT 99: Barbara Feldon played agent 99 on ‘Get Smart’.
BARBARA FELDON: Played agent 99 on ‘Get Smart’.
GERMAN VIRGINS: If you ask them for sex they will answer: “Nein, nein!”.
ICE CREAM CONE
MEAT HOOKS: Looks like meathooks.
NINA ROSS
PHIL HELLMUTH (9s-9c): He won the 1989 WSOP with this hand.
POPEYES: Look like Popeye’s arm muscles.
POTHOOKS: The 9 looks like a traditional pothook.
QUOTATIONS: Looks like quotation marks.
WAYNE GRETZKY: Hocky player’s uniform.
8 8
DAWQ BALLS: Looks like them.
DOGGIE BALLS: Looks like them.
DOUBLE INFINITY: Two times the (upright) symbol for infinity.
FROG EYES: Looks like them.
GET SMART
INFINITIES: Two symbols (upright) for infinity.
LITTLE OLDSMOBILE: Big was olds 98, smaller car called 88.
OCHO’S: Spanish for eights’.
OCTOPUS(SY): An octopus has eight tentacles.
PIANO KEYS: A piano has 88 keys.
RACETRACKS: Goes round and round and looks like a racetrack.
SNOWMEN: Looks like two snowmen.
TWO FAT LADIES: Looks like two fat ladies, taken from bingo.
TWO LINKS IN A CHAIN: Looks like two chainlinks.
WURLITZER: The number of keys on the organ.
7 7
AXES: Looks like them.
CANDY CANES: Looks like them.
HOCKY STICKS: Looks like them.
LEN GOODMAN: From his famous catchphrase ‘Seven!’.
MULLETS: Because of the hairstyle, flat in front and long in the back.
SALMONS
SATURN: Saturn VII rocket.
SCYTHES: Seven looks like a Scythe.
SUNSET STRING
SUNSET STRIP: From ’77 Sunset Strip’, a television series that aired from 1958 to 1964 starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
WALKING STICKS: Looks like them.
6 6
BOOTS: Looks like boots.
POCKET BUDDIES
CHERRIES: Nicknamed because of similarity to the shape of the number 6.
CLICKETY CLICK
KICKS: From the Rolling Stones’ song ‘Get your kicks on route 66’.
Route 66: The road from Chicago to Los Angeles.
SEX: Sixes
5 5
(COUPLE OF) NICKELS: Five cents per nickel.
PRESTO: Spread by the English poker players. In London was the Presto Club, located at 55 Victoria Street.
SNAKES: Fives looks like snakes.
SPEED LIMIT: 55 MPH is the maximum speed limit in the US.
TITS IN THE WINDOWPANES
4 4
BARACK OBAMA: The 44th president of America.
CANADIAN PRESTO: Lower than 55, which is called presto.
COLT 44: Like the gun.
DARK FORCE (4s-4c): Dark side of the fours.
DARTH VADER (4s-4c): The two black fours are the dark force.
DIANA DORS: Her top measurement.
DRUNK MAN’S ACES: When you are drunk the fours look like aces.
EASTWOODS
LUKE SKYWALKER: ‘May the fours be with you’.
MAGNUM: The .44 caliber gun.
MIDLIFE CRISIS: Named after the approximate age of the average midlife crisis.
POCKET DRAWS
SAILBOATS: Looks like two sails.
STAR WARS: ‘May the fours be with you’.
WINDOW PANES
3 3
CITY PARK: Because of the trees in the city park.
CRABS: Because a 3 looks like it has pincers.
GEESE
HOOTERS: Look like breasts.
LARRY BIRD: Basketball player for the Boston Celtics, with number 33.
POINTERS
TREYS: Because treys are 3-pointers in basketball.
2 2
BARELY LEGAL
BIRDS: Looks like them.
DESMOND: Named after Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
DEUCES (NEVER LOSES)
DUCKS: From the French word for two ‘deux’. Also looks like two ducks.
MINI ME
QUAKERS (QUACK QUACK): From two little ducks.
RICHARD NIXON: From the famous photo of Nixon getting on a helicopter giving two victory signs.
SLEEPERS: Seven looks like a Scythe.
STANLEY’S
(POCKET) SWANS: Look like swans.
SWAROVKIS: Look like Swarovski crystal swans.
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