Posts Tagged ‘deuces’

Boat and Pocket Cards

Hi,

Do you have any idea what hand is a boat? How about names of pocket cards, how many names do you know? Can you list them down?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Landon
Landon,

A boat is a full house. As far as pocket cards, Aces are rockes, Kings are Cowboys, Queens are Ladies, Jacks are fish hooks, Nines are meat hooks, Eights are snowmen, Sevens are walking sticks, fives are presto or nickels, fours are sailboats, and deuces are ducks.

Couple of Questions

Hello,

I’m here to ask couple of questions. But before I lay them down let me first thank you for creating and maintaining a site like this one. It has been a great help to me and to many others. Keep up the good work!

Now, here are my two questions:

1. You once said that the odds of a pair pre-flop are 6% but the odds of AA or KK preflop are 9%. Why is this so? Is there any difference?
2. Why do you think poker is getting more and more popular? Do you think the Rounders movie has something to do with this? How about the power of television?

Thanks in advance!

All the best,
James
James,

1. The odds of being dealt a preflop pair are around 6%. The odds of being dealt Aces or Kings is no different than being dealt deuces.
   
2. The popularity of poker has been mainly due to ESPN’s World Series of Poker and Chris Moneymakers win in 2003. Rounders is a great movie, but only helped make Holdem popular in a small way. Thank Chris Moneymaker for the current poker boom.