Dead man's hand case these would have been combined with an unknown hole card. The expression "dead man's hand" appears to have had some currency in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, although no one connected it to Hickok until the 1920s. The earliest detailed reference to it was 1886, where it was described as a "full house consisting of three jacks and a pair of tens". Jacks and sevens are called the dead man's hand in the 1903 "Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences". Edmond Hoyle refers to it as Jacks and eights in 1907. What is considered the
Chinese poker Each player then has to divide their cards into three poker hands (known as "setting"): two containing five cards each (known as "the middle" and "the back"), and one containing three cards ("the front"); "the back" must be the highest-ranking hand, and "the front", the lowest-ranking hand (note that straights and flushes do not count in the three-card hand). The "back hand" is placed face down on the table in front of the player, then the "middle hand" is placed face down in front of the back hand, and the front hand is placed face down in front of the