Dead man's hand in popular culture "dead man's hand" after he has been shot in the back. In "Along Came a Spider" (2001), aces and eights is the winning hand that gave ownership of a Turkish hand-made shotgun to the father of Agent Flannigan. It later provides a clue about her involvement in the kidnapping plot. A Dead Man's Hand is featured in the first part of the Coen Brothers anthology "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs", the titular character replaces a player in a poker game, and the other players insist he play the retired player's hand. Buster, upon seeing the hand, prefers not to play
Strip poker very often or every time before the flop, essentially playing a "tight" pre-flop strategy. Using this strategy, a player could stay clothed for the entire game simply by folding their hands. Strip poker requires a different overall strategy from poker played with betting chips since the maximum loss on a hand of strip poker is (typically) one item of clothing. In a betting environment, a player who stays in the pot with a weak hand is liable to lose many chips in a single hand. In strip poker, the risk of staying in a hand is significantly limited, so players