The two black aces and the two black eights is called the 'Dead Man's Hand' in poker, who is said to have been holding it when he was shot in the back in 1876?
"dead man's hand card combination of today gets its notoriety from a legend that it was the five-card stud hand held by James Butler Hickok (better known as ""Wild Bill"" Hickok) when he was shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall on August 2, 1876, in Nuttal & Mann's Saloon at Deadwood, Dakota Territory. Reportedly, Hickok's final hand included the aces and eights of both black suits. According to a book by Western historian Carl W. Breihan, the cards were retrieved from the floor by a man named Neil Christy, who then passed them on to his"
"Over the course of his life, he was involved in several notable shoot-outs. In 1876, Hickok was shot from behind and killed while playing poker in a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory (present-day South Dakota) by Jack McCall, an unsuccessful gambler. The hand of cards which he supposedly held at the time of his death has become known as the dead man's hand: two pairs, aces and eights. Hickok remains a popular figure in frontier history. Many historic sites and monuments commemorate his life, and he has been depicted numerous times in literature, film, and television. He is chiefly portrayed"
"Dead man's hand in popular culture The dead man's hand, a legendary ""cursed"" poker hand usually depicted as consisting of the ace of spades, ace of clubs, eight of spades and eight of clubs with an undefined fifth card, has appeared or been referenced in numerous works of popular culture. In the novel ""Along Came a Spider"" by James Patterson, Jezzie Flannigan tells the story of how her father won his gun with a hand of aces and eights – she also uses ""Aces&Eights"" as her computer password. ""Dead Man's Hand"" is the name of the seventh book of the"
"cards of the Dead Man's Hand. In a man is shot and killed in a bar shortly after a poker game between the bar owner and his wife, whose hand was both black aces, both black eights and the Jack of Diamonds. The bar owner's wife is also killed later in the story. In Hearthstone, the warrior has the card ""Dead Man's Hand"". In the mobile app Zombies, Run!, a season two Radio Abel caller refers to a dismembered zombie arm as Aces and Eights because it is a dead man’s hand. ""Aces and Eights"" is the title of an"
"game, with the Jack of diamonds as the fifth card. The Coen Brothers' film ""The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"" features the hand in its first segment, where the character Buster Scruggs takes someone's place at a poker table who was dealt this hand before leaving, and subsequently refuses to play it. The hand is mentioned in the title track from Motörhead's ""Ace of Spades"". Dead man's hand The dead man's hand is a nickname for a particular poker hand, popularly a two-pair of black aces and black eights, although definitions of the hand have varied through the years. Such a"
"seat. Subsequently, McCall entered the saloon, calmly walked up behind Hickok and shouted ""Damn you! Take that!"" as he shot him in the back of the head with a .45 caliber revolver. The bullet exited through Hickok's cheek and hit Capt. Massie, another poker player, in the wrist. McCall fled, while a few people attempted to revive Hickok. The attempts were futile, as he likely died instantly from the bullet wound to the head. The poker hand Hickok was holding when he was shot was reportedly a pair of eights and a pair of aces–all black–which has become known as"
"a game of poker by dealing aces and eights to Sam's love interest. It is referred to as a ""dead man's hand"" by Al. In an episode of ""The Untouchables"" syndicated TV series (1993-1994), members of an Irish gang are playing poker when they are gunned down by members of an Italian mob. A short time later, other members of the Irish gang come to investigate the scene of the demise of their unfortunate colleagues. At one point, the leader of the investigating team examines the poker hand held by one of the deceased and comments matter-of-factly, ""Aces and eights""."
"""dead man's hand"" after he has been shot in the back. In ""Along Came a Spider"" (2001), aces and eights is the winning hand that gave ownership of a Turkish hand-made shotgun to the father of Agent Flannigan. It later provides a clue about her involvement in the kidnapping plot. A Dead Man's Hand is featured in the first part of the Coen Brothers anthology ""The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"", the titular character replaces a player in a poker game, and the other players insist he play the retired player's hand. Buster, upon seeing the hand, prefers not to play"
"job, which angered Coe. The two became enemies and in a later altercation, Wild Bill Hickok killed Coe. Wild Bill, also a professional lawman, gunfighter, and gambler, was later killed on August 2, 1876 by Jack McCall, who shot him in the back of the head, in Saloon No. 10, in Deadwood, South Dakota as Wild Bill was playing cards. His hand—aces and eights, according to tradition—has become known as the ""dead man's hand"". Former lawman, faro dealer, and gambler Wyatt Earp worked in or owned several saloons during his lifetime, outright or in partnership with others. He and two"
"case these would have been combined with an unknown hole card. The expression ""dead man's hand"" appears to have had some currency in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, although no one connected it to Hickok until the 1920s. The earliest detailed reference to it was 1886, where it was described as a ""full house consisting of three jacks and a pair of tens"". Jacks and sevens are called the dead man's hand in the 1903 ""Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences"". Edmond Hoyle refers to it as Jacks and eights in 1907. What is considered the"
"known as the Dead Man's Hand and use the eponymous cards as their insignia. In , just before Vagabond dies on an infiltration mission, he loses a critical hand of poker with a full house of aces and eights against Maniac's four queens. In the 90th Case of the Facebook game, ""Criminal Case"", the player finds a set of poker cards with 2 black aces and eights, which allows the player to incriminate the killer as someone who plays poker. In the crew Stacked Deck's insignia includes the ace of Spades and an unknown black 8, two of the five"
"as one lump group). Each player tries to form the best poker hand he can. Due to jokers and Cheatin', five of a kind is possible. The Dead Man's Hand (Ace of Spades, Ace of Clubs, Eight of Spades, Eight of clubs with a Jack of Diamonds as the fifth card) is ranked highest. This hand is historical in nature as it is the hand Wild Bill Hickok held when he was killed. Each poker hand has a rating from 1 (high card) to 10 (Dead Man's Hand), and the losing player suffers a number of casualties equal to the"
"him in the back. Lin rides into town with the perfect rifle, and his brother's body laid across Dutch's horse. The shooting competition takes place on July 4, 1876, the Centennial, as the news of Custer's Last Stand in June is just becoming known across the west. A few days after Dutch Henry steals the prized rifle from Lin, he plays cards against the Indian trader, Joe Lamont, at Riker's Bar. Dutch Henry lays down a full house, aces over eights, stating that he just missed the ""dead man's hand""—two pair, aces and eights, so nicknamed because Wild Bill Hickok"
"to bury him, and has no reference to Poker. In the expansion Dead Money, the player can collect cards that make up the famous Dead Man's Hand (Black aces, black eights and the Queen of Spades) from around the ruins of the Sierra Madre casino for an achievement. In the Collectible Card Game, ""Doomtown"", where conflicts are resolved by playing card numbers on the game cards used to make poker hands, the Dead Man's Hand (specifically, both black aces, both black eights and the Jack of Diamonds) is the highest possible hand. In there is a group of werewolf hunters"
"Hand is the name of a haunted attraction character in Central Ohio. Big Boss Brewing in Raleigh, NC brews a beer called ""Aces and Ates."" Dead Man's Hand is also a beer currently brewed by a small brewery called ""Het Nest"" in Turnhout, Belgium (World Capital of Playing Cards) Dead man's hand in popular culture The dead man's hand, a legendary ""cursed"" poker hand usually depicted as consisting of the ace of spades, ace of clubs, eight of spades and eight of clubs with an undefined fifth card, has appeared or been referenced in numerous works of popular culture. In"
"were supposed to hold onto it (money) it would have handles."" Jack Straus Jack ""Treetop"" Straus (June 16, 1930 – August 17, 1988) was an American professional poker player. He is best known for winning the 1982 World Series of Poker Main Event, where he was able to come back from being down to one chip earlier in the tournament, which gave meaning to the poker phrase ""a chip and a chair"". In addition, Straus is known for successfully pulling off one of the best bluffs in the history of poker. Straus began playing in World Series of Poker events"
"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. Texas hold 'em starting hands In the poker game of Texas hold 'em, a starting hand consists of two ""hole cards"", which belong solely to the player and remain hidden from the other players. Five community"
"death in 1990. An arm-and-hammer sign can be seen in Manette Street, Soho, symbolizing the trade of gold-beating carried on there in the nineteenth century. It is referred to by Charles Dickens in ""A Tale of Two Cities"". As of 2016, the sign there is a replica, with the original being held in the Dickens Museum. Arm and hammer The arm and hammer is a symbol consisting of a muscular arm holding a hammer. Used in ancient times as a symbol of the god Vulcan, it came to be known as a symbol of industry, for example blacksmithing and gold-beating."
"requiring Goodfellow to remove more than of shattered humerus bone from Virgil's left arm, leaving him permanently crippled. The next victim of the feud between the Cowboys and the Earps was Morgan Earp. At 10:50 PM on March 18, 1882, Morgan was playing a round of billiards at the Campbell & Hatch Billiard Parlor against owner Bob Hatch. Dan Tipton, Sherman McMaster, and Wyatt Earp watched, having also received death threats that same day. An unknown assailant shot Morgan through a glass-windowed, locked door that opened onto a dark alley between Allen and Fremont Streets. Morgan was struck in the"
"Jack McCall John McCall (); (1852 or 1853 – March 1, 1877), also known as ""Crooked Nose"" or ""Broken Nose Jack"", was the murderer of Old West legend Wild Bill Hickok. McCall shot Hickok from behind as he played poker at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory on August 2, 1876. McCall was executed for the murder on March 1, 1877. Many details of McCall's life are unknown. He was born in the early 1850s in Jefferson County, Kentucky. McCall was raised in Kentucky with three sisters, and eventually drifted west to become a buffalo hunter. By 1876,"
"the back of the head. Hickok was famously holding two pairs—of black aces and black eights—when he was shot, a set of cards thereafter called the ""Dead Man's Hand"". The film's depiction of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer as a lunatic at the Battle of the Little Bighorn was intended as satire, though many of his quirks and vanities were inspired by contemporary observations. Custer's fatal tactics at the Little Bighorn were far more complex than portrayed in the film, which portrays him as having a searing hatred of Indians and acting ruthlessly towards them in battle. In truth, while"
"was said to hold such a hand when he was murdered in Deadwood on August 2, 1876, almost a month later. Lamont had four treys. As part of the publicity campaign around the release of the film, Universal Pictures sponsored a contest, by placing magazine ads, to find some of the rare remaining ""One of One Thousand"" Model 1873 Winchester rifles. This resulted in many previously unknown original rifles being brought into the spotlight and drew public interest to the field of antique gun collecting. The winner of the contest received a new Winchester Model 1894 rifle, since the Model"
"a number of notorious outlaw Cowboys in Tombstone, Arizona during the 1880s, including Curly Bill Brocius. During the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral on October 26, 1881, Deputy U.S. Marshal Virgil Earp and his brother Assistant Deputy U.S. Marshal Morgan Earp were both seriously wounded. Goodfellow treated both men's injuries. Goodfellow treated Virgil Earp again two months later on December 28, 1881 after he was ambushed, removing of bone from his humerus and attended to Morgan Earp on March 18, 1882, when he was shot while playing a round of billiards at the Campbell & Hatch Billiard Parlor. Morgan died"
"match. Due to the stipulations of the match, the stable disbanded. The following week, a funeral segment of the group was shown. Aces & Eights Aces & Eights was a villainous stable in the promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), initially consisting of a group of masked wrestlers before their identities were revealed. It had the gimmick of an outlaw motorcycle club; members of the stable rode motorcycles, wore cuts and were referred to as either ""prospects"" or ""patched in"". The name of the stable is a reference to the two pair poker hand known as the ""dead man's hand""."
"Jack Straus Jack ""Treetop"" Straus (June 16, 1930 – August 17, 1988) was an American professional poker player. He is best known for winning the 1982 World Series of Poker Main Event, where he was able to come back from being down to one chip earlier in the tournament, which gave meaning to the poker phrase ""a chip and a chair"". In addition, Straus is known for successfully pulling off one of the best bluffs in the history of poker. Straus began playing in World Series of Poker events in the early 1970s. He finished in fourth place in the"
"it, suggesting to the viewer he is familiar with the implication of those cards. On ""The X-Files"" episode entitled ""Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose"", the title character is playing poker with Agent Scully and is seen holding a full house of aces and eights (the ace of hearts being the fifth card). In ""The Assassin"" (Season 3 Episode 11) of the television series ""The Pretender"", poker plays a key role, including the appearance of the dead man's hand at the end of the episode. In a first episode of ""Quantum Leap"" (""How The Tess Was Won"") a character attempts to rig"
"was shown playing poker (such as Liberty Valance or gunman Tom Tyler in ""Stagecoach""), the last hand he plays is the ""death hand""—two eights and two aces, one of them the ace of spades—so-called because Wild Bill Hickok is said to have held this hand when he was murdered. Many of his sound films include renditions or quotations of his favorite hymn, ""Shall We Gather at the River?"", such as its parodic use to underscore the opening scenes of ""Stagecoach"", when the prostitute Dallas is being run out of town by local matrons. Character names also recur in many Ford"
"black man in Leon County, Texas. On January 5, 1870, Hardin was playing cards with Benjamin Bradley in Towash, Hill County, Texas. Hardin was winning almost every hand, which angered Bradley who threatened to ""cut out his liver"" if he won again. Bradley drew a knife and a six-shooter. Hardin said he was unarmed and excused himself but claims that later that night, Bradley came looking for him. Bradley allegedly fired a shot at Hardin and missed; Hardin drew both his pistols and returned fire, one shot striking Bradley in the head and the other in his chest. Dozens of"
"that they could expect retaliation. Local newspapers erroneously reported that Spence and Stilwell had been arrested for a different stage robbery that occurred on October 8 near Contention City. Stilwell was in jail in Tucson on these federal charges on the day of the gunfight on October 26, 1881, but Spence had been released several days before. At 10:50 p.m. on Saturday, March 18, 1882, Morgan Earp was shot by assailants who fired through a glass-windowed, locked door at the Campbell & Hatch Billiard Parlor in Tombstone. At the time, Morgan was playing a late round of billiards against owner"
"their hands. The cards used are marked as at present, although they differ from those of modern times for being narrower and longer. Eight of the cards lie on the table with the blank side uppermost, for the cards at that time had blank backs, while four remain in each of the other players hands. A particular in this painting is that one of the players is seen showing his cards, which are: the jack (knave) of hearts, the ace, 7 and 6 of clubs. The cover of the pack lying on the table displays two lions supporting a shield,"
"[A K Q 10 9], [A K J 10 9], and [A Q J 10 9]; both other no-pair hands (i.e., in which either the A or the 9 are missing) are straights. Consequently, in some variants of the rules, straights are counted as busts. Marlboro once marketed a set of octahedral poker dice that included suits; each die had slightly different numberings, ranging from 7 up to ace. A similar set is currently manufactured by Koplow Games. In 1974 Aurora produced a set of 12 sided poker dice called ""Jimmy the Greek Odds Maker Poker Dice"" and in 2000"
"and void, indicating that Friedman was indeed beat by top 2 pairs. Other players on the table immediately argued that Friedman had made the call in time and that the hand is live, including Chicago poker player Mike Mustafa. A floor supervisor was called over and had enforced the original ruling, stating that ""If the guy wanted to make a decision he could have made it at 5, he gave him to 0, it's a dead hand"". In later interviews, Friedman had stated that the reason he called at 0 was that while he believed Bort had a strong hand,"
"Poker Alice Alice Ivers Duffield Tubbs Huckert (February 17, 1851 – February 27, 1930), better known as Poker Alice, Poker Alice Ivers or Poker Alice Tubbs, was an English poker player in the American West. Her family moved from Devon, England, where she was born, to Virginia, United States, where she was reared and educated. As an adult, Ivers moved to Leadville, Colorado, where she met her first husband, Frank Duffield. He got Ivers interested in poker, but he was killed a few years after they married. Ivers made a name for herself by winning money from poker games in"