2006-09-30 14:33:55 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Wild Bill Hickock was shot by Jack McCall in Deadwood, SD while playing poker. His hand was aces and eights (two pair, not a full house).
2006-09-30 15:34:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Two other occurrences of nearly this phrase are:
(1) dead man's handle - on a train, keeps the brakes OFF while the driver is holding it. If the driver dies at the controls, he releases the dead man's handle, and the brakes come on.
(2) hand of glory - the severed hand of a dead man, preferably a hanged murderer, turned into a candle by lighting the tips of all five fingers. European folklore is that carrying this around a house two or three times will put all the occupants into so deep a sleep that a burglar can then enter the house to steal everything in it, in complete safety.
2006-10-01 09:33:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In poker, the dead man's hand is a two-pair hand, namely "aces and eights." The origin of the name is the five-card-draw hand held by Wild Bill Hickok at the time of his murder, which is accepted to have included the aces and eights of both of the black suits (sometimes considered "bullets").
There are various claims as to the identity of Hickok's fifth card, and there is also some reason to believe that he had discarded one card, the draw was interrupted by the shooting, and he never got the fifth card due to him.
The Stardust in Las Vegas had a 5 of diamonds on display as the 5th card; in the HBO television series Deadwood, a 9 of diamonds is used; the modern town of Deadwood, South Dakota also uses the 9 of diamonds in displays; and Ripley's Believe it or Not shows a queen of clubs.
2006-09-30 23:36:45 · answer #3 · answered by Lynn Rosemary 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have been to the saloon (#5) where this happened in Deadwood, SD. They still have the table there. Actually, the hand is black aces and eights. The shooter, Jack McCall (aka the Coward Jack McCall) was hanged shortly thereafter.
2006-10-01 00:14:11 · answer #4 · answered by ericscribener 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most of the answers are fairly accurate except for the table, it was donated by Colonel Hardesty to the Santa Cruz, CA Historical society and still retains the blood stain.
2006-10-01 13:43:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aces, and eights, full house. Three aces, and two eights. It is called a dead mans hand, because Jessie James was holding that hand when he was shot from behind. So the story goes anyway.
2006-09-30 14:42:26 · answer #6 · answered by Tumbleweed 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
"Aces and eights" is conventional because the useless guy's hand in stud poker. The word dates again to the homicide of James Butler "Wild invoice" Hickok by skill of Jack McCall in Deadwood, Dakota Territory on August 2, 1876. After he became shot contained in the again of the proper, "the fashionable gunman's stiffening fingers printed his 2 pair -- aces and eights."
2016-11-25 19:37:08 · answer #7 · answered by yao 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bill Hicock, not Jesse James.
Bill held a hand of aces and eights, with his back to the wall, he tempted fate...
2006-09-30 15:10:51 · answer #8 · answered by It All Matters.~☺♥ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
aces an eights,,wild bill hiccock was killed holding that hand,shot in a saloon
2006-09-30 14:38:20 · answer #9 · answered by steve 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋