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
And to My Nephew Albert I Leave the Island What I Won off Fatty Hagan in a Poker Game And to My Nephew Albert I Leave the Island What I Won off Fatty Hagan in a Poker Game And to My Nephew Albert I Leave the Island What I Won off Fatty Hagan in a Poker Game is a novel written by David Forrest (pen-name used by English novelists Robert Forrest-Webb and David Eliades). It is the best known novel of the author(s). First published in 1969, the novel tells the story of a Russian spy-ship (the "Dmitri Kirov") crashing into Albert's small island in the Isles of Scilly. Desperate to stop the ship's highly-secret equipment falling into the