Dead man’s hand

Created by TLR on July 23, 2009

Definition

A 5 card hand made up of 2 aces and 2 8’s (if you want to be picky it has to be 2 black aces and 2 black 8’s) The hand is called a dead man’s hand because it was claimed that Wild Bill Hickok held this hand when he was shot to death in a poker game. There is a debate about what is the 5th card that completed the hand

Example

I assume my dead men\'s hand beats your pair of cowboys

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