Dead man's hand in popular culture cards of the Dead Man's Hand. In a man is shot and killed in a bar shortly after a poker game between the bar owner and his wife, whose hand was both black aces, both black eights and the Jack of Diamonds. The bar owner's wife is also killed later in the story. In Hearthstone, the warrior has the card "Dead Man's Hand". In the mobile app Zombies, Run!, a season two Radio Abel caller refers to a dismembered zombie arm as Aces and Eights because it is a dead man’s hand. "Aces and Eights" is the title of an
Poker of variants, largely grouped by the protocol of card-dealing and betting: There are several methods for defining the structure of betting during a hand of poker. The three most common structures are known as "fixed-limit", "pot-limit", and "no-limit". In fixed-limit poker, betting and raising must be done by standardized amounts. For instance, if the required bet is X, an initial bettor may only bet X; if a player wishes to raise a bet, they may only raise by X. In pot-limit poker, a player may bet or raise any amount up to the size of the pot. When calculating the