What are the strangest terms in the poker slang?

Odysseus101 said:

The nuts. I'm sure there's a reason for it, but it's more amusing if I don't know what it is.

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Odysseus101 said:

Well, now I had to look it up.

nut hand (the nuts)The nut hand is the best possible hand in a given situation. Players sometimes evaluate hands by ranking them as being the second nuts or the pure nuts.Heh heh. Second nut. Heh heh. Pure nuts.


So, from wikipedia


Origins

A common and certainly[citation needed] apocryphal folk etymology is that the term originated from the historical poker games in the colonial west of America, where if a player bet everything he possessed, he would place the nuts of his wagon wheels on the table to ensure that, should he lose, he would be unable to flee and would have to make good on the bet. Since it would be expected that a player would only make such a bet when he had the best possible hand, the folk lore says that this is how the best possible hand came to be known as the nuts. It is also rumored[by whom?] that these historical games were played only in the winter, and therefore, the nuts that were placed on the table were "stone cold", hence coining the term "stone-cold-nuts".[1]
A far more likely explanation[citation needed] is that "the nuts" originated from the old English usage of "nuts", meaning "any source of pleasure".[2]
Another seemingly fitting explanation is that the term was derived from the UK English slang "the dog's bollocks" or "the mutt's nuts", meaning "the absolute best". However, this phrase originated around 1949,[3] and the term "the nuts" pre-dates it.


So I don't know if there's any good explanation. But I do know that I like talking about my nuts.

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Odysseus101 said:

Well, now I had to look it up.

nut hand (the nuts)The nut hand is the best possible hand in a given situation. Players sometimes evaluate hands by ranking them as being the second nuts or the pure nuts.Heh heh. Second nut. Heh heh. Pure nuts.


So, from wikipedia


Origins

A common and certainly[citation needed] apocryphal folk etymology is that the term originated from the historical poker games in the colonial west of America, where if a player bet everything he possessed, he would place the nuts of his wagon wheels on the table to ensure that, should he lose, he would be unable to flee and would have to make good on the bet. Since it would be expected that a player would only make such a bet when he had the best possible hand, the folk lore says that this is how the best possible hand came to be known as the nuts. It is also rumored[by whom?] that these historical games were played only in the winter, and therefore, the nuts that were placed on the table were "stone cold", hence coining the term "stone-cold-nuts".[1]
A far more likely explanation[citation needed] is that "the nuts" originated from the old English usage of "nuts", meaning "any source of pleasure".[2]
Another seemingly fitting explanation is that the term was derived from the UK English slang "the dog's bollocks" or "the mutt's nuts", meaning "the absolute best". However, this phrase originated around 1949,[3] and the term "the nuts" pre-dates it.


So I don't know if there's any good explanation. But I do know that I like talking about my nuts.

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MrPokerVerse said:

I laughed the first time Anna Kournikova was said for AK. Looks good but rarely wins.

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