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
Out (poker) 9♣ (making a pair of sevens); in this case even catching any of the three remaining aces or tens will give the player a pair to beat the opponent's, so those are even more "potential outs". In sum, the player has 9 guaranteed outs, and possibly as many as 18, depending on what cards he expects his opponents to have. Out (poker) In a poker game with more than one betting round, an out is any unseen card that, if drawn, will improve a player's hand to one that is likely to win. Knowing the number of outs a player