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What poker hand has been known as The Dead Man's Hand ever since Wild Bill Hickok was killed after winning a pot with it?
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"Aces and Eights"; two pair of 2 aces and 2 eights. Wild Bill Hickok was accused of cheating after showing two pair, aces and eights, but nobody knows what the fifth card was.
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Who was the holder of the dead man's hand?
Legend holds that Wild Bill Hickok was shot to death during a poker game in Deadwood, South Dakota, and that the hand he held was two pair, black aces and black eights. On that most people agree. The fifth card is not known for certain.
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The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he got shot; aces and eights of clubs and spades. The suit and value of the fifth card is uncertain. (Wikipedia has a picture of the hand with the fifth card face down.)
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Wild Bill Hitchcock is a famous Wild West Gunslinger. His death is known for the aces and eights 'dead man's hand' in poker which he had when he was killed in Deadwood South Dakota. http://www.abacom.com/~jkrause/hickok.html http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WWhickok.htm http://www.deadwood.org/AboutDeadwood/History/?utm_source=GooglePPC&utm_medium=PPC&utm_content=OldWest&utm_campaign=BHDS2008
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