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Dead man's hand

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Noun
  1. 1
    A pair of aces and a pair of eights (especially, the black aces and eights), in a player's hand.

    ""A dead man's hand or queens on the roof at least," suggested Southack. "They say two aces and two eights can never be beat.""

  2. 2
    An ace and an eight as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
  3. 3
    Other various hands, among them a full house of three jacks and two tens. obsolete

    "When playing poker, should you hold a jack full on red sevens, it means death, and is called "a dead man's hand"."

Etymology

The aces and eights sense is from a legend that Wild Bill Hickok was holding such cards at the time he was killed in 1876.

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