Poker Hand Rankings

Below are examples of poker hand rankings along with full descriptions of the types of poker hands like a Royal Flush, Straight Flush, Four of a Kind, Full House and more. Looking for the nicknames of single cards or pairs? We have them all listed here too.

	Poker Hand Rankings
	Hand Ranking Descriptions
	Individual Card Nicknames
	Paired Hand Nicknames
	Unpaired Hand Nicknames

Poker Hand Ranking Examples

Poker Hand Ranking Descriptions

Royal Flush	A straight flush involving Ten, Jack, Queen, King and Ace
Straight Flush	Five sequential cards of the same suit with the high card being less than an ace
Four of a kind	Four cards with the same value
Full House	Three cards of the same value and a separate pair of cards of the same value
Flush	Five cards of the same suit
Straight	Five cards with sequential values (cards of any suits)
Three of a kind	Three cards with the same value
Two Pair	Two separate pairs of cards with the same value
Pair	Two cards of the same value
High Card	No other combination, the value of the highest card wins

Individual Card Nicknames

Ace	Bullet, One-Spot, Rocket or Sharp Top
King	Cowboy, K-Boy or Knight
Queen	Cowgirl, Dame, Girl, Hen or Lady
Jack	Boy, Bower, Fishook, Hook, J-Boy or Knave
10	Dime or Sawbuck
9	Neener or Niner
8	8-Land, Fat Lady, Ocho or Snowman
7	Candy Cane, Hockey Stick or Mullet
6	Boot
5	Five-Spot or Nickel
4	Boat, Broken Ace, Four-Spot, One Legged Ace, Sailboat or Sharp Top
3	Butt, Crab or Trey
2	Deuce, Dewey, Duck or Swan

Paired Hand Nicknames

AA	Alan Alda, American Airlines, Bullets, Eyes, Needles, Pocket Rockets, Rockets, Rocky Mountains, Sharp Tops or Teepees
KK	Ace Magnets, Cowboys, Gorillas, King Kong, Kangaroos, Knights or Krispy Kreme
QQ	Bitches, Calamity Jane, Hookers, Ladies, Siegfried & Roy or Snowshoes
JJ	Brothers, Fishooks, Hooks, Jaybirds or Jokers
TT	Audi, Binary, Dimes, Dynamite, Tension or TNT
99	Barbara Feldon, German Virgin, Phil Hellmuth, Popeyes, Pothooks or Wayne Gretzky
88	Dawg/Doggie Balls, Lacey, Piano Keys, Pretzels, Racetracks, Snowmen, Time Travel, Two Fat Ladies
77	Axes, Candy Canes, Hockey Sticks, Mullets, Sunset Strip or Walking Sticks
66	Boots, Cherries, Kicks or Route 66
55	Nickels, Presto, Snakes or Speed Limit
44	Luke Skywalker, Magnum or Sailboats
33	Crabs or Treys
22	Dueces, Ducks, Pocket Swans, Quack Quack or Swans

Unpaired Hand Nicknames

AK	Anna Kournikova, Big Slick (offsuit), Big Slick in a Suit (suited), Big Ugly (offsuit), Kalashnikov or Walking Back to Houston
AQ	Anthony & Cleopatra, Big Chick, Doyle Brunson, Little Slick or Mrs Slick
AJ	Ajax, Apple Jacks, Armani Jeans, Blackjack, Jackass, Hijack or Trapasso
AT	Bookends or Johnny Moss
A9	Gimp Hand, Jesus or Rounders Hand
A8	Asterix & Obelix or Dead Man's Hand
A7	Slapshot or The Sonnert
A6	Mile High Club or Tennessee Ernie Ford
A5	High Five
A4	Plane Crash, Stu Ungar or Transvestite
A3	Ashtray, Baskin-Robbins or Thrace
A2	Acey-Deucy, Hunting Season or Little Slick
KQ	Divorce (suited and if it loses), Ferdinand & Isabella, King of Queens, Lucy & Ricky, Marriage (suited and if it wins), Mixed Marriage (offsuit), Othello (offsuit), Royal Couple or Valentine's Day (both hearts)
KJ	Bachelor's Hand (offsuit), Bill Fillmaff (offsuit), Harry Potter, Jackie Kennedy, Joking, John King, Kojak, Starsky & Hutch or Tucson Monster
KT	Big Al, Ike Turner, Katie, Ken or Woodcutter
K9	Bow Wow, Canine, Dogs, Fido, Mongrel (offsuit), Mutt (offsuit), Pedigree (suited), Rin Tin Tin, Sawmill, The Doctor Who or What a Dog
K8	Feast, Kate or Kokomo
K7	Columbia River or Kevin
K6	Kicks
K5	Knives or Seattle Special
K4	Core, Fork (suited), Fork Off (offsuit) or Oppression of the Masses
K3	Alaska Hand, Commander Crab, King Crab or Sizzler
K2	Big Fritz (suited), Donald or The Zepik
QJ	Hawaii, JQuery, Maverick, Oedipus, Pinichle or Quack
QT	Cutie, Goolsby, Q-Tip, Quint, Robert Varkonyi, Tarantino or Tina Turner
Q9	Quinine
Q8	Fat Ally (offsuit) or Kuwait
Q7	Computer Hand (offsuit)
Q5	Granny Mae (both spades)
Q4	Housework
Q3	Gay Waiter, San Francisco Busboy or Windsor Waiter
Q2	Daisy or Queen Liz
JT	John Terry or Justin Timberlake
J9	Braggars or TJ Clouter (both spades)
J8	Jacket
J7	Jack Daniels
J6	Railroad
J5	Jackson Five or Motown
J4	Austin Squatty, Flat Tire , Kid Grenade or The New Motown
J3	J-Lo or Lumberjack
J2	Heckle & Jeckle or Jack Shit
T9	Countdown or Mobile Hand
T8	Tetris
T7	Bowling Hand, Daniel Negreanu (suited) or Split
T6	Sweet Sixteen
T5	Dime Store, Five & Dime, Merfs or Woodworths
T4	Broderick Crawford, CB, Convoy, Good Buddy, Over & Out, Roger That, The Trucker or Truckers Hand
T3	Fast Connection or Hot Waitress
T2	Doyle Brunson, Terminator 2, Texas Dolly or Whirlygig
98	Oldsmobile
97	Persian Carpet Ride
96	Big Lick, Big Love, Breakfast of Champions, Dinner for Two, Good Lover, Happy Meal, Jaka Subic, Joe Bernstein, Percy (offsuit), Prom Night (suited) or The Dirty
95	Betty Hutton, Dolly Parton and Hard Working Man
94	Joe Montana, Lost World Series or San Francisco
93	Jack Benny
92	Montana Banana or Twiggy
87	RPM or Tahoe
86	Eubie, Henry Bowen, Jajr, Maxwell Smart, Pacheco Nuts (offsuit), Pooch or Rick James
85	Chad or The Hamilton
84	Big Brother or Orwell
83	Most Feared Hand in Hold'em or Raquel Welch
82	Tadpole
76	Trombones or Union Oil
75	007 (both spades), Assault Rifle, Heinz, Pickle Man or Vietnamese Slick
74	Cambodia Slick (offsuit), Double Down, Ghost Dog or Kalashnicov
73	Dutch Waiter, Joe Hachem or Swedish Busboy
72	Beer Hand (offsuit), Hammer (offsuit), Jeremy Beadle or W.H.I.P. (offsuit)
65	Buss Pass or Ken Warren
64	Arlo, Billion Dollar Hand or Gilchrist
63	Blocky, Jimmy Summerfield (offsuit) or Spanish Inquisition
62	Aimsworth
54	Colt 45, Jesse James or Moneymaker
53	Bully Johnson or Juggernaut
52	Bomber, Pick-Up, Quarter, Safari or Two Bits
43	Books or Waltz
42	Jack Bauer, Lumberman's Hand, The Answer or The Principle
32	Can of Corn, Crubs (both clubs), Hooter Hand (suited), Little Pete, Michael Jordan, Polish Big Slick or The Low Nut