Dead man's hand game, with the Jack of diamonds as the fifth card. The Coen Brothers' film "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" features the hand in its first segment, where the character Buster Scruggs takes someone's place at a poker table who was dealt this hand before leaving, and subsequently refuses to play it. The hand is mentioned in the title track from Motörhead's "Ace of Spades". Dead man's hand The dead man's hand is a nickname for a particular poker hand, popularly a two-pair of black aces and black eights, although definitions of the hand have varied through the years. Such a
Cheating in poker online cardrooms: PokerStars, PartyPoker, and Full Tilt Poker. Angle shooting is engaging in actions that may technically be within the scope of the rules of the game, but that are considered unethical or unfair to exploit or take advantage of another player. For example, an angle shooter might motion as if he were folding his hand to induce other players to fold theirs out of turn. One form of angle shooting which is exclusive to online poker is to abuse the disconnect protection (DP) rules most sites have in place. DP is a rule exclusive to online poker whereby if