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[QUOTE="ScooperNova, post: 4726471, member: 91549"]
I'm fascinated that Wild Bill's hand is thought to be known to include AA88, [U]all black,[/U] but the kicker is highly debated and thought to be lost to history.  The mystery kicker adds to the romantic mystique of the legend. and I choose to believe it was a one eyed jack.  I've heard a few other theories but no one knows for sure.  I saw a post somewhere that his fifth card was a third black ace, explaining why he was shot lol.

Per wikipedia-[COLOR=#222222]Hickok biographer Joseph Rosa wrote about the make-up of the hand: "The accepted version is that the cards were the ace of spades, the ace of clubs, two black eights, and the queen of clubs as the 'kicker'."[/COLOR][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_hand#cite_note-7"][7][/URL][COLOR=#222222] However, Rosa said that no contemporaneous source can be found for this exact hand.[/COLOR][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_hand#cite_note-8"][8][/URL][COLOR=#222222] The solidification in [/COLOR][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_game"]gamers[/URL][COLOR=#222222]' parlance of the dead man's hand as two pairs, aces and eights, did not come about until after the 1926 publication of Frank Wilstach's book [/COLOR][I]Wild Bill Hickok: The Prince of Pistoleers[/I][COLOR=#222222]—50 years after Hickok's death.[/COLOR][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_hand#cite_note-Dope-1"][1][/URL]
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