Ultimate List of Poker Hand Nicknames

Once you’ve played a few dozen hours of poker, you might assume that there’s a nickname for every poker hand you get.

Well, after scouring the internet and our own poker vocabularies, we can tell you this – that’s a good assumption.

Some of the most popular hands in poker have half a dozen different nicknames. It’s tough to keep track of them all.

Luckily, we’re here to help. Our list below has more than 150 poker hand nicknames categorized by hand type.

Check it out to learn the slang for your favorite poker hands.

Pocket pairs are hands that contain two cards of the same value. For example, pocket aces (AA), kings (KK), and queens (QQ).

The following are the most popular nicknames for pocket pairs in poker.

Pocket aces is the best starting hand that you can get pre-flop in games like Texas Hold’em. You’re approximately 80% to win against any two cards before the flop.

These are the most common poker hand slang for pocket aces.

Pocket kings is the second-best hand that you can get in poker.

Like pocket aces, there is plenty of poker hand slang names for this combination.

Pocket queens has a few nicknames that it goes by. Unfortunately, some of these names are derogatory, so these are the most common poker hand names you’ll find.

Pocket jacks is a difficult hand to play. It’s the fourth strongest pocket pair in Texas Hold’em, yet players tend to play them as if they were as strong as aces, kings, or queens.

Fortunately, the poker slang for pocket jacks isn’t nearly as difficult.

There are a few nicknames for the poker hand pocket tens. These are the most common ones you’ll hear at the table.

Pocket nines are a fun hand to play. You can raise with them, overcall with them, limp in pre-flop with them – it’s hard to go wrong, so long as you don’t overplay them.

Here are some of the different names you might hear someone call pocket nines.

You’ll find plenty of poker hand slang for pocket eights.

Here is some slang that you might hear when someone has pocket sevens.

Here’s some of the poker hand slang you might hear with pocket sixes.

If you get pocket fives, here are some nicknames you can call your hand.

Here are some poker nicknames you can use for pocket fours.

These aren’t as many nicknames for poker hands like fours, threes and twos – certainly not as many as pocket aces or kings. Here are the few nicknames that you’ll hear the most.

Pocket twos is the worst pocket pair you can get, but you can still win a huge pot if you flop a set. You’ll hit a set approximately 1 time for every 8 tries.

If you can’t get a pocket pair likes aces, kings, or queens, then a strong A-X hand is often the next best thing.

Here are some of the poker hand nicknames you might hear when you or someone else picks up a hand with an ace and another card.

There’s no doubt that there are plenty of good hand combinations you can make with the king card. Here are some of its most common nicknames.

Seeing a queen in your opening hand can be a good feeling. A pair of queens is often good, plus queens make for strong flushes and straights.

Here are some popular nicknames for queen hand combinations that you might get.

While the lowest of the face cards, some hand combinations with a jack can prove to be very formidable. Here are some names you can use for the J-X hands you pick up.

T-X hands can lead to some nice hand combinations, such as a straight, flush, or even royal flush.

Here are some common nicknames for the ten card in poker.

Some of our most favorite 9-X hands are suited connectors. Who wouldn’t want to flop a straight and/or flush draw?

Here are some of the most common nicknames for poker hands with a nine in them.

We’re starting to get halfway through the deck. Even though there aren’t a ton of 8-X hands we love to play, surprisingly, you’ll still find several nicknames for them.

Let’s look at some of the poker slang you can expect to hear when talking about 7-X hole cards.

The value of the six-card might not be too powerful, but you can occasionally make a strong hand.

If anything, there is entertainment value to be had in knowing the nicknames for various 6-X hands you can receive.

Here are some 5-X hand nicknames you might hear from players.

We’ve already covered several nicknames which involve the four card. However, here are two more hands with nicknames that we haven’t covered yet.

When it comes to threes, we’ve covered several of the nicknames that you might find already. But here are two more that we haven’t covered yet.

Those are all the slang names for poker hands that we could think of or find.

But if you know of one that we missed, contact us and we’ll add it to the list.

We want this to be the best list of poker hand names on the internet and, with your help, we can make that happen!