Posted Sat Sep 18, 2004 3:58 pm GMT by wEbMaStEr
I am a big James Patterson fan, i've read all his books, seen the ones that have been made into movies, i am a sick and twisted individual, and i really like this serial killer kinda stuff.
So Along came a spider was on tv tonight and i'm kinda watching it, Detective Alex Cross is interviewing one of the Secret Service agents, who were gaurding the little girl who gets kidnapped, in her home.
He picks up an antique rifle and says "nice gun" the agent says "thanks, my dad won it in a poker game, Aces and eights." Cross instantly replies "dead mans hand" 
Sorry, i know it's like 1 line of unrelated dialogue in an otherwise non-poker movie, but just the fact that the writer knew about "the dead mans hand" and included it, kinda tickled me 
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Posted Sat Sep 18, 2004 4:12 pm GMT by MasterShake
Almost everyone here across the pond knows Aces and Eights. At least the people I've met. :D
Posted Sat Sep 18, 2004 4:17 pm GMT by wEbMaStEr
oh! 
i still liked it 
Posted Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:39 pm GMT by Teekan
It's ok I'm a poker freak too.
meatwad | Quote: | | Almost everyone here across the pond knows Aces and Eights. At least the people I've met. |
yeh but do they know what person is responsible for the dead mans hand?
:D
Posted Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:28 am GMT by Nut Flush
You mean who died or who shot him? Wild Bill died but for some reason I can't recall the guys name who killed him  .
Posted Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:24 am GMT by hartmch
Jack McCall shot Wild Bill
Posted Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:49 am GMT by Muck
Maybe Jack was holding 8's full of aces, most of us wish we had a gun when that happens 
jk before anyone says this wouldn't be possible in a stud game.
Posted Wed Oct 13, 2004 11:51 pm GMT by 'SkinGamer
If McCall had had a boat, he'd have won, drank himself to death, and there would have been one less Legend Of The Old West. Hickock was holding two pair, aces and eights. A hand that has killed me more than once, I might say.
Posted Thu Oct 14, 2004 9:31 am GMT by JonnyBoy
Back in Deadwood, at Sweeney's Silver Dollar Saloon, Wild Bill was playing a game of low stakes poker at his usual table in the corner near the door. Jack McCall, who was drinking heavily at the bar, saw him there and his face turned a deep crimson, but he said nothing.
McCall believed that Hickok had killed his brother back in Kansas. This probably was correct, considering that Lew McCall was a thief and a loud-mouth, and had met his end in Abilene in a gunfight with a "lawman." Remaining quiet and unobtrusive, McCall slowly walked around to the corner of the saloon where Hickok was playing his game. Under his coat, McCall's hand was on his double-action pistol, a .45. He came up slowly behind Hickok, attempting to create the impression that he was a casual observer of the game, and in this attempt watched several hands being played. As everyone's attention was focused on the player opposite Hickok, as that man placed his bet, McCall withdrew his revolver and shot Wild Bill Hickok in the back of the head, killing him instantly.
Wild Bill held a pair of eights, and a pair of Aces, which ever since that moment have been known as a "dead man's hand."
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