Texas Monthly...Johnny Hughes

[Johnny Hughes]

Here's an article I wrote for the best and best known publication in Texas. You will notice they mention livepokerforum.com. Working with them is great but it means several phone calls and some surprises in the final draft. What do you guys thing of this?
Johnny Hughes

[Johnny Hughes]

Texas Tidbits
by Johnny Hughes

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Texas Tidbits [January 2002]
For twenty years, I have worn a Texas-flag lapel pin or hat pin to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) tournaments at fellow Texan Benny Binion’s Horseshoe Casino, in Las Vegas. It helps me project an image of being fearless, cagey, and as full of tricks as I am of old Texas sayings. Wearing the flag helps start conversations, most of which often begin, “How’s the poker in Abilene?” Or Amarillo, or Gladewater, or Houston. The answer has radically changed with the growth of poker all over the world, which occurred after the release of the movie Rounders and escalated with televised poker tournaments and Internet poker. Gamblers everywhere are playing Texas Hold ’Em, a poker game that began in West Texas in the late fifties. Some estimate that as many as 50 million Americans play poker in home games, casinos, and on the Internet. When I proudly wear my Texas flag in Las Vegas, poker players make some assumptions that are true and some that are false, and that’s okay with me—it makes being on the road a lot more special. Here’s a list of nicknames for poker hands to help make you look like a winner—both among your poker-expert pals and in your chip count.

Two Aces: Pocket Rockets, American Airlines

Two Queens: Maude and Irene, Siegfried and Roy, Hilton Sisters

Ace/Ten: Johnny Moss (named in honor of the 1970 and 1971 World Series of Poker champion)


Ace/Eight: Dead Man’s Hand (Wild Bill Hickok had two pairs—one of aces and one of eights—when he was killed)

King/Queen: Royal Couple

King/Jack: Lonely Man

King/Nine: Canine Unit

Jack/Five: the Jackson Five, Motown

Ten/Five: Dime Store, Woolworth’s

Ten/Four: Good Buddy, Policeman’s Hand

Nine/Five: Dolly Parton

Eight/Four: Big Brother (from George Orwell’s novel 1984)

Two Sixes: Route 66, the Mother Road

Two Fives: Speed Limit

These hands are named after what the figures look like on the cards:

Two Jacks: Fish Hooks

Two Tens: Twenty Miles of Railroad Track

Two Eights: Frog Eyes

Two Fours: Sail Boats

Two Threes: Crabs

Two Twos: Ducks

Johnny Hughes has written for pokerpages.com, pokerforum.com, livepokerforum.com, and many other Web sites. He lives near Lubbock and currently is working on a book of poker stories.

[tetsuo]

[TheUnknownPlayer]

Welcome back Johnny....
Oddly enough - I just finished (about an hour ago) compiling a list of hand names here they are to add to your list:
A - A American Airlines, Bullets, Pocket Rockets
A - K Big Slick, Alaska
A - Q Ice Cream, Little Slick
A - J Jack Ass, Ajax
A - 10 Johnny Moss, Bookends
A - 3 Baskin-Robbins
A - 2 Hunting Season
K - K Cowboys, Ace Magnets
K - Q Marriage
K - J Kojak
K - Jo Jacking Off
K - 9 Canine
K - 8 Lumber Yard
K - 3 King Crab
Q - Q Seigried and Roy, Ladies, Hilton sisters
Q - J Oedipus
Q - 10 The Varkonyi
Q - 7 Computer Hand
Q - 3 Gay Waiter
J - J Fishhooks, Hooks
J - 5 Jackson Five, Motown
J - 4 Flat Tire
10 - 10 Twenty miles
10 - 5 Woolworth, Five and Dime
10 - 4 Broderick Crawford, Over and Out
10 - 2 Doyle Brunson
9 - 8 Oldsmobile
9 - 6 Big Lick, Brotherly Love
9 - 5 Dolly Parton
9 - 3 Jack Benny
9 - 2 Montana Banana, Twiggy
8 - 8 Little Oldsmobile, Snowmen, Dog Balls
8 - 3 Raquel Welch
7 - 7 Walking Sticks
7 - 6 Union Oil
7 - 5 Heinz
7 - 2 Beer Hand
6 - 6 Kicks, Route 66
6 - 3 Blocky
5 - 5 Presto
5 - 5 Speed Limit
5 - 4 Jessie James
4 - 4 Magnum, Sailboats
3 - 3 Crabs
2 - 2 Ducks

Multi-card names
A - A - 8 - 8 Dead Man's Hand
A - K - Q - J - 10 Broadway
A - K - 4 - 7 Assault Rifle
K - K - K - K Four Horsemen
K - K - K - K Posse
10 - 10 - 10 Thirty Miles
10 -10 - 10 - 10 Forty Miles
5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - A Bicycle, Bike, Wheel
3 - 3 - 3 - 3 Forest

[tetsuo]

Can I stick that list on the main site, TUP?

[TheUnknownPlayer]

tetsuo,

It's all yours bud. However, I'd appreciate it in the future if you wouldn't phrase a question in such a way that I'm almost obligated to tell you where to stick it.

TUP

[tetsuo]

Hehe. Thanks man.

Edit: What no 'big chick'?

[TexasKowboy]

Welcome back Johnny! Drop me a PM so we can catch up.

Great list TUP!