Dead man's hand in popular culture In Legends of the Hidden Temple, an episode from the first season was told about the legend of Wild Bill Hicock and the Dead Man's Hand. In "Noosphere Rising" (Season 1 Episode 7) of the television series "Touch", a key is given to Jake Bohm (David Mazouz) by Dr. Teller (Danny Glover) with the number 1188 engraved on it. The number is identified by Martin Bohm (Kiefer Sutherland) as the "dead man's hand", and is part of the number pattern of the fictional Amelia Sequence. In "The Lightning" (Season 1 Episode 14) of the television series "Criminal Minds", Hotch plays
Pai gow poker a player acting in tandem with the dealer as co-bankers). The object of pai gow poker is for a player to create two poker hands out of the seven-card hand he/she is dealt (a five-card hand and a two-card poker hand) that beats both the dealer's corresponding hands. The five-card hand's rank must exceed that of the two-card hand, and it is for this reason that the two-card hand is often called the hand "in front", "on top", "hair", or the "small", "minor", or "low" hand. The five-card hand is called the hand "behind", or the "bottom", "high", or "big",