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Hand
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Slang name
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Straight flush, ace to five
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Steel wheel
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Four of a kind
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Book, Case, Quads (e.g., "Quad Kings")
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Four of a kind, aces
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Full boat, Boat, Full, Tight(Canadian usage)
- A full house is commonly referred to as Xs full of Ys where X is the three of a kind and Y is the pair. For example, 555KK would be "fives full of kings"
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Flush of hearts or diamonds
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Pink, All Pink
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Flush of clubs or spades
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Blue, All Blue
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Flush of clubs
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Golf Bag, Puppy Feet, Puppy Toes, Pups
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Straight, ten to ace
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Broadway
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Straight, ace to five
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Wheel, Bicycle, Bike
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Three of a kind
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Trips (or Trip as in Ted has trip kings.), Set
- In Hold 'em the term "set" refers to when a player has a pair in the hole and one matching card on the board, with "trips" referring to a pair on the board and one in the hand or three of a kind on the board.
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Three of a kind, kings
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Alabama Night Riders, Three Wise Men
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Three of a kind, sevens
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Slot Machine
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Three of a kind, sixes
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Devil's hand, Mark of the Beast (referring to the Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelation)
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Three of a kind, deuces
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Huey, Dewey and Louie
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Two pair, aces and eights
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Dead man's hand (hand held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was shot and killed)
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Two pair
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Two pair is commonly shorthanded as Xs up or Xs over Ys, with the top pair as X and the bottom pair as Y. For example, KK998 would be "kings up" or "kings over nines".)
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One pair, aces
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Aces and spaces (a hand with one pair of aces, and nothing else. Used derogatorily, especially in games such as seven-card stud, where two pair is a typical winning hand)
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Outside straight draw
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Bobtail, Open-ended, up-and-down-
- An outside straight draw: cards of two different ranks could complete the high or low end of the straight (e.g., _3456_)
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Outside straight flush draw
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Big Bobtail
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Inside straight draw
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Gutshot, Belly buster
- An inside straight draw: only cards of a single rank could complete the straight (e.g., 34_67)
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Double inside straight draw
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Double gutshot, Double belly buster
- Double inside straight draw: cards of two different ranks could fill gaps in the straight (e.g., 2_456_8)
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Four cards of one suit
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Busted flush, Four-flush
- Four cards of one suit: only another card of that suit could complete a flush
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Starting hand
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Slang name
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AA
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Pocket Rockets, American Airlines, Bullets, Two Pips
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AK
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Big Slick (originally referred to A♠K♠, but the name has become
common for any Ace-King, especially suited), Anna Kournikova (looks good but rarely wins), Machine Gun (AK-47), Walking Back to Houston ("I can see you learned to play in Houston. Those Houston players would come to Dallas and play that ace-king, but they'd always end up against a pair of aces. That's why we call that hand‘Walking back to Houston.'" - T.J. Cloutier, quoted by Barry Greenstein)
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AQ
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Little Slick, Big Chick, Mrs. Slick
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AJ
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Blackjack, Ajax, Jackass
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AT
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Johnny Moss, A-Team, Bookends
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A8
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Dead Man's Hand (by analogy with Wild Bill's aces and eights)
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A3
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Baskin-Robbins (plays off the number 31: 31 Flavors), Friday The 13th (An ace played low would be considered equivalent to 1)
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A2
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Acey-Deucey, Drinking Age
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KK
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Cowboys, Elvis Presley, King Kong, Ace Magnets (when the flop comes Ace high with no King)
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KQ
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Marriage, Royalty
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KQ suited
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Royal Marriage
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KQ unsuited
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Mixed Marriage
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KJ
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Kojak, King John
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KJ unsuited
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Bachelor Hand (from "Jack-King-Off")
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K9
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Canine, Dog, Fido, Sawmill, The Donk
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K7
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King Salmon
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K3
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King Crab, Alaska Hand, Three Kings
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QQ
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Cowgirls, Ladies, Siegfried and Roy, Four Tits, Bitches
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QJ
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Maverick (the theme song for the television series Maverick speaks of the title character as "livin' on jacks and queens")
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QT
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Q-Tip, Varkonyi (named after Robert Varkonyi, 2002 World Series of Poker main event champion, who rather liked this hand)
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Q9
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Quinine, "The Hellory"
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Q7
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Computer Hand
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Q3
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Gay Waiter, San Francisco Busboy ("Queen with a tray")
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Q3 suited
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Posh Gay Waiter
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Q♥3♥
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Flaming Gay Waiter
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JJ
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Fishhooks, Hooks, Jokers, Kid Dyn-o-mite, Johnnies
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JT
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Cloutier (play on name: T. J. Cloutier)
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J♣9♣
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T.J. Cloutier (T.J. flopped three straight flushes with this hand in one year)
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J8
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Jeffrey Dahmer ("Ate Jack")
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J7
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Jack Daniel's (Jack Old No. 7)
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J6
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Railroad Hand
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J5
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Motown, Jackson Five
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J4
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Flat Tire ("What's a jack for?")
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TT
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Binary, Dimes, TNT, Boxcars
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T5
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Five and Dime, Woolworths
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T4
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Good Buddy, Over and Out, Roger That (play on radio code 10-4), Broderick Crawford
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T2
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Doyle Brunson, Texas Dolly (Brunson won the World Series of Poker Main Event with it twice in a row—1976 and 1977)
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9♠9♣
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Phil Hellmuth (winning hand of the 1989 World Series of Poker Main Event)
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99
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Wayne Gretzky (his jersey number), German Virgin ("nein, nein" means "no, no" in German)
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98
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Oldsmobile
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96
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Big Lick, Porno, Dinner for Two (play on number 69)
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96 suited
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Prom Night ("Sixty-nine suited")
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9♥6♥
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Valentine's Day
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95
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Dolly Parton (she sang "9 to 5"), Full-time job
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94
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Gold Rush, San Francisco (play off the number 49)
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93
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Jack Benny (play off his running gag of always being 39 years old), The Sik
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92
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Montana Banana
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88
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Octopussy, Little Oldsmobile, Snowmen, Infinities, Double Infinity
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86
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Maxwell Smart (Agent 86 in Get Smart)
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83
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Raquel Welch
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77
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Hockey Sticks, Candy Canes, Walking Sticks
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76
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Philadelphia, Union Oil, Trombones (from the song "76 Trombones")
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75
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Heinz, Ketchup (play on Heinz's 57 varieties)
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74
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Double Down, Blackjack hand
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73
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Hachem (named for Joe Hachem, winner of 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event who won the $7.5 million prize with this hand when he flopped a straight)
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72 offsuit
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The Hammer, Beer Hand (72 offsuit is the worst possible starting hand; this name implies that you would have to be drunk to play this hand.)
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72 suited
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Velvet Hammer
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66
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Route 66
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63
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Blocky
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62
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Ainsworth
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55
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Presto, Speed Limit, Nickels
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54
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Jesse James, Colt 45 (both play off the number 45), Moneymaker (winning hand of Chris Moneymaker, 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event champion)
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52
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Bomber (B-52 bomber)
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44
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Sailboats (looks like two sails), Midlife Crisis, Magnum, Luke Skywalker ("May the fours be with you")
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4♠4♣
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Darth Vader ("Dark Side Of The Fours")
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42
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Willie Mays
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33
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Crabs, Hooters
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32
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Can of Corn
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22
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Ducks (from "deuces"), Swans, Sleepers, Quack Quack
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any pocket pair
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Wired pair, Wired (for example, a starting hand of 8-8 might be called "wired eights" or "eights wired")
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