'FT Weekend Magazine - Non-fiction: Stakes and chips Las Vegas and the internet have helped poker become the biggest game in town'. When we eliminate identical combinations, there are 169 starting hands in Texas Hold’em. However, because suits have no value in this poker variant, a lot of these combinations will have the same value before the flop. ^ Hold'em Excellence: From Beginner to Winner by Lou Krieger, Chapter 5, pages 39 - 43, Second Edition There are 1,326 possible combinations for your opening hand in Texas Hold’em poker.^ David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth (1999).^ No-Limit Texas Hold'em by Angel Largay.While most combinations have a nickname, stronger handed nicknames are generally more recognized, the most notable probably being the 'Big Slick' - Ace and King of the same suit, although an Ace-King of any suit combination is less occasionally referred to as an Anna Kournikova, derived from the initials AK and because it 'looks really good but rarely wins.' Hands can be named according to their shapes (e.g., paired aces look like 'rockets', paired jacks look like 'fish hooks') a historic event (e.g., A's and 8's - dead man's hand, representing the hand held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was fatally shot in the back by Jack McCall in 1876) many other reasons like animal names, alliteration and rhyming are also used in nicknames. Trouble hands canbe evenmore trouble in nolimit hold'em than they. In poker communities, it is common for hole cards to be given nicknames. starting hand than you would need when the game is fivehanded, for example.

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