Dead Man's hand
The Dead Man's Hand ( English for "hand of the dead man") is a hand in the card game poker . It consists of two pairs of eights and aces , each of spades and clubs .
The hand takes its name because the western hero Bill Hickok was shot backwards in a draw poker game in 1876 when he was holding two black aces and eights with a queen as a kicker . However, other sources state that he held two jacks and two eights and no fifth card at all, as he was shot while swapping the card. The hand was first handed down in 1886, when it was still a full house of boys and tens .
use
The hand is used among other things
- in the browser game The West as a quest
- in the real-time strategy game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
- in the online trading card game Hearthstone as a card
- in the short story The Hand of Death (1976) by Jörg Fauser
- in the book series of the Final Destination series
- in the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- in the 22nd Lucky Luke band Calamity Jane
- in the movie Ringo (1939)
- in the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
- in the movie In the Spider's Web (2001)
- in the movie Dead Man's Hand (2007)
- in the movie All In - All or Nothing (2008)
- in the movie The Traveler (2010)
- in the episode film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
- in the series Deadwood
- in the series CSI: On the trail of the perpetrators (Season 9, Episode 8 The Man of Her Dreams - 31:18)
- in the series Navy CIS (season 6 episode 24 - 06:19)
- in the series Touch (episode 7)
- in the series Inspector Barnaby (episode Blood on the Saddle )
- in the series The Pretender (season 3 episode 11 True Lies )
- in the series SEAL Team (season 2 episode 17)
- in an advertisement for PartyPoker.com
- as the title of the video game Dead Man's Hand
- in the video game Silent Downpour (Findable in a side quest. In an adjoining room is a corpse that should be the owner of the sheet.)
- in the radio play series Die Drei ??? (Episode 157: The Sign of the Snakes - 08:03)
- in various songs, including by
- Bob Dylan : Rambling , Gambling Willie . Dylan said he played cards a lot and believed in the Dead Man's hand . With a hand like that, it's time to exchange the chips for cash and leave.
- Molly Hatchet : Gunsmoke
- Motörhead : Ace of Spades , Dead Man's Hand
- Uncle Kracker : Aces and Eights
- Lita Ford : Aces and Eights
- Bob Seger : Fire Lake
- as the best hand in the trading card game Doomtown
- as the title of a song by music producer KSHMR in big room style, released in 2015
- in the work of the devil's prayer book by Markus Heitz
See also
Web links
- dead man's hand (HDAS 1908) ( Memento from April 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dead Man's Hand - Hearthstone Cards. Retrieved November 9, 2017 (American English).
- ↑ Izzy Young: What Was It You Wanted? Excerpt from an interview Izzy Young conducted with Bob Dylan on October 20 and 23, 1961. In: Izzy Young Journals, number 23, October 20, 1961, quoted in: Younger Than That Now, The Collected Interviews with Bob Dylan. New York, Thunder's Mouth Press 2004, ISBN 1-56025-590-0 , p. 12.