dead man's handとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

dead man's hand

1. (poker) A pair of aces and a pair of eights (especially, the black aces かつ eights), in a player's hand.
   • 1907, Davida French; Esther Stevens, Laura Wells, “The Rulers of the Realm”, in Not Included in a Sheepskin: Stanford Stories, Stanford: The Stanford Book Store, page 172:

     "A dead man's hand or queens on the roof at least," suggested Southack.
     "They say two aces and two eights can never be beat."

2. (poker) An ace and an eight as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
3. (poker, obsolete) Other various hands, among them a full house of three jacks and two tens.
   • 1903, Cora Linn Morrison Daniels, Charles McClellan Stevens, editor, Encyclopædia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World, volume 3, J. H. Yewdale, page 1478:

     When playing poker, should you hold a jack full on red sevens, it means death, and is called "a dead man's hand".

同意語

• ((poker) pair of aces and pair of eights): aces and eights / eights and aces
• kelter

参考

• dead man's fingers

参照

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN