If it’s free it’s me

Hope everyone had a good and profitable weekend. I find the weekends can be a funny time to play online poker. After about 9pm EST I find that most of the recreational players have gone out to party on Friday and Saturday nights, leaving the tables full of solid, dedicated poker players. Not a good time to be playing. If you can wait until about 2am EST (about 5pm Australian time), things seem to loosen up considerable as a lot of drunk recreational players come home after a big night out, and decide a bit of online poker is a good idea. I find as a general rule the most consistently soft times to play poker are Monday and Tuesday night EST.

I spent a bit of my weekend going around all my poker accounts cashing in poker points for worthless merchandise. I've got poker books, pokers T's, Beach towels, Caps, and software all coming my way. While I'm sure a lot of it will end up in the bin, it's always nice receiving a package in the mail.

Today's Topic: Poker Hand Nicknames

You often see people using different nicknames for poker hands when discussing poker in the chat boxes. If you are unsure of some of the nicknames, below is a list of Texas Hold'em starting hand nicknames that have stood the test of time.

AA     Rockets; Bullets; American Airlines
KK     Cowboys
QQ     Canadian Rockets; Canadian Aces; Siegfried & Roy
JJ     Fishhooks; hooks
88     Snowmen; Doggie Balls
77     Sunset Strip
66     Route 66
55     Presto; Speed Limit
44     Canadian Presto
33     Crabs
22     Ducks

AK     Big Slick
AQ     Big Chick; Walking Back to Houston
KQs     Marriage
KQo     Mixed Marriage
KJ     Kojak
K9     Fido; What a Dog
K3     Commander Crab; King Crab
Q7     Computer hand
Q3     Gay Waiter (queen with a tray)
J5     Motown; Jackson Five
T8     Golden Dan
T5     F&W Woolworth's; Five and Dime
T4     Broderick Crawford; Convoy; Good Buddy
T2     Texas Dolly
98     Oldsmobile
96     Big Lick; Dinner for Two
95     Dolly Parton
92     Montana Banana
83     Most feared hand in Holdem
7T     Split
76     Union Oil

72    The Hammer

Today's Link:

For any users of Pokertracker the following free software is a great program which calculates and graphs how lucky or unlucky you have been in any given timeframe. It's always interesting to know if you have been unlucky in any given session of just played badly. This program will help answer this question. Link to Poker-EV here.