Poker Nickname Ideas
If you're tired of playing nothing but Texas Hold'em and other same-old-same-old poker games, try introducing one or more of these variations in your home game the next time you gather with friends for a little card competition. They're all a lot of fun and some are also offered in casinos and online.
More usernames won big this week, including robinho, a username that also happens to have the real name of Robin Ylitalo. He's a former EPT London winner, and most recently picked up another TCOOP title, top go with the one he won the year before. Poker hand nicknames The following sets of playing cards can be referred to by the corresponding names in card games that include sets of three or more cards, particularly 3 and 5 card draw, Texas Hold 'em and Omaha Hold 'em. Card game name generator. This name generator will generate 10 random names for card games, but they also work for other types of games. Card games come in many different forms, but I focused more on multiplayer card games, more elaborate card games, and, as far as names go, on names with specific naming conventions.
Omaha
Omaha is a lot like Texas Hold’em at first glance, but there are some important and fun differences. Just as in Hold'em, it's a community card game with players sharing the cards on the board. But unlike Hold'em, each player is dealt four hole or down cards and must use exactly two cards from his hole cards and three from the board to make a five-card poker hand.
This game is found on almost all online poker sites and in many casinos.
Pineapple Poker
Pineapple poker is almost identical to Hold'em, but you start with three cards in Pineapple. You'll discard one of them after the flop, so you'll have just two cards in the hole in the end, just as you would in Hold'em. But the added card adds quite a bit of fun to the game and makes the final winning hands much higher.
Seven Card Stud
Seven card stud used to be a popular and common game, but it's all but disappeared from home games these days. It's still a great game, however, and you can find it online and in most casinos.
Razz Poker
Speaking of seven-card stud, razz poker is a variation of seven card stud that's played only for low. It will likely become either your most beloved or most detested game of all time. It's one of those love-it-or-hate-it endeavors that just might catch on with you and your friends. If you're ever playing in a HORSE poker game, this game is the R. You can find it online, too.
Double Flop Texas Hold'em
Double Flop Hold'Em poker is just what it sounds like: it's Texas Hold'em with two flops! Each player still gets two hole cards, but they get to make two separate hands, one for each of the two sets of board or community cards that are dealt out. Each pot is usually split between two players, but sometimes one lucky winner scoops up the whole very large pot.
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Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw
If you know five-card draw—which is a great game to add in its own right—torture your fellow players a little and please your bankroll by introducing deuce-to-seven triple draw. It's five-card draw played for the 'worst' hand, and you get to draw three times. It seems complicated at first, but it's really quite easy to play when you master the rules.
Mix It Up
Nobody says you have to play the same game all night every night. Mix it up and add one, more or all of these variations to your next home game.
The popular card game is full of quirky words and phrases, but over the last few years, the evolution of the game has seen some of those terms gradually shift in line with current trends. One of the biggest areas of change is in the nicknaming of poker hands. Although traditional monikers have stood the test of time, others have taken on new meanings. In this article, we’ve outlined the top ten poker nicknames and flagged up some of the terms that have shifted in the last few years.
10 – 10-2 “The Brunson”
A lonely hand that very few people would play, let alone give a name, this poker holding shot to fame after it helped Doyle Brunson win not one but two WSOP Main Event titles with it. Striking it somewhat lucky with the hand against his Jesse Alto in 1976 to claim his first WSOP bracelet, Brunson then repeated the feat the following year with the same hand. Ever since that time 10-2 was known as the Brunson. In fact, the term re-entered the community’s consciousness during the days of the show High Stakes Poker as Brunson would regularly play it.
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9 – A-K “Anna Kournikova” (formerly “Walking Back to Houston”)
One of the most named hands in poker, A-K was once known as “Walking Back to Houston” on account of the players who went broke playing it. However, as poker moved from a game played by Texan road gamblers to an international pursuit, the game started to take on a new meaning. As the game became an internet sensation, many were keen to rename A-K the Anna Kournikova because, like the Russian tennis player, it looks good but rarely ever wins.
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8 – Q-7 “The Computer hand”
Another product of the internet poker boom, this hand is statistically shown to be the average winning hand. As online poker began to grow, players began improving their skills using computer simulations, it was shown that Q-7 wins 50% of the time and loses 50% in theoretical match-ups. Since this was discovered the hand became known as the computer hand.
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7 – A-4 “The Transvestite Hand”
A-4 “The Transvestite Hand” – One of the more risqué alternatives to standard names in the poker community, this one is the product of London’s live poker scene. Following an explosion of interest in the game, a glut of players began to patronise London’s top card rooms in the early 2000s. Keen to discuss hands and exchange banter, the term “transvestite hand” soon came to the fore as players noticed that A-4 looks like pocket aces on first inspection but really it isn’t.
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6 – 4-4 “Luke Skywalker”
An obvious one to fans of Star Wars, a pair of fours gradually became known as the Luke Skywalker hand thanks to the phrase “may the fours be with you” which is a play on the mantra: “may the force be with you”. Interestingly, a pair of black fours (spades and clubs) is known as the Darth Vader because it represents the dark forces (fours).
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5 – 9-9 “The Hellmuth”
Phil Hellmuth is one of the best known poker players in the world and when he won his first WSOP bracelet in 1989 he did it using pocket nines. After a tense heads-up match against Johnny Chan, an established figure in the game, a young Hellmuth managed to overcome his rival and win $755,000. Since then Hellmuth has gone on to become the most successful WSOP player in history.
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4 – K-J “Harry Potter”
Poker has a keen ability to take on modern culture and one of the latest poker nicknames to come from this is the Harry Potter hand. As the popularity of the books and films hit an all-time high, players took the name of the story’s author and adopted it as the moniker of K-J.
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3 – A-8 “Dead Man’s Hand”
One of the original poker nicknames, Dead Man’s Hand refers to A-8 as these were the two cards Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he shot in the head and killed. Despite taking place many years before the poker boom of 2003 (in 1876 in fact), the hand has stood the test of time. Not only that, but the Dead Man’s Hand is a nickname that’s entered the mainstream and is now used in people’s everyday vernacular.
2 – 7-3 “The Hachem”
Poker hands often take on a nickname of the player that used it to win a significant tournament and that’s exactly what happened with 7-3. After carving his way through one of the largest WSOP Main Event fields in history (5,619 players), Hachem was able to make a straight with 7-3 to take the last of Steve Dannenmann’s chips. That win not only gave 7-3 a new nickname but earned Mr. Hachem $7,500,000.
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1 – 7-2 “The Beer Hand” –
Poker Names Ideas
virtually ever poker hand has a nickname and that means the worst pre-flop holding in Texas Hold’em also has a moniker. Because it’s known as the worst hand, people often refer to 7-2 as the beer hand for one simple reason: you’d have to be drunk to play it. Not only that, but you’ll probably need a beer or two after playing this hand and losing all your chips.