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A player checks his cards during the finals of the Russian Masters Poker Cup.

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One of the most fun things about poker is the witty slang terms for different hands.

And with the 2016 World Series of Poker

getting underway in Las Vegas, we thought now was a good time to revisit some of our favorites:

Two Aces are usually called

Pocket Rockets

. But Star Wars enthusiasts call them

Admiral Ackbar

when a player holds the aces to trap

another player.

An Ace and King is usually called Big Slick

because it is a slippery hand with which one can easily lose a fortune. However, tennis fans sometimes call it the Anna Kournikova

because of the initials and because it “l

ooks good, but never wins

.”

Two Kings are almost always called Cowboys

.

An A-8 is usually called the Dead Man’s hand

 because these were two of the cards Wild Bill Hickok was holding

when he was killed in 1876. It’s also 

sometimes

called an Asterix and Obelix

 — a reference to a series of French comics.

Two Queens can be called Canadian Aces

, referring

to The Queen of England’s relationship to Canada.

A Queen and Jack (QJ) can be called the Oedipus

, bandarq which is a reference

to Queen Jocasta and her son/husband Oedipus from the Greek tragedy.

Two Jacks are called Kid Dy-no-mite,

which was the signature phrase

of JJ from the show “Good Times.”

Two 9s are called the Wayne Gretzky

 in honor of his jersey number.

Two 8s are called snowmen

 — just because the numbers visually resemble them.

Two 4s are called the Midlife Crisis

.

And two 2s are called a Richard Nixon

because

of that famous photo

of him giving two peace signs off a helicopter.

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