Dead man's hand in popular culture Tonka song "Dead Man's Hand", the Motörhead song "Ace of Spades", the Bob Dylan song "Rambling, Gambling Willie", the Uncle Kracker song "Aces and Eights" and the Bring Me the Horizon song "Alligator Blood" all refer to the legendary poker hand. Motörhead also have a song on the B-side of The One to Sing the Blues single, titled Dead Man's Hand. The song "Aces & Eights" from the Lita Ford album "Stiletto" features "The dead man's hand holds aces and eights" in the refrain. The lyrics "Who's gonna play those eights and aces?" appear in the song "Fire Lake" by
Poker evaluate their hands. The player with the best hand according to the poker variant being played wins the pot. A poker hand comprises five cards; in variants where a player has more than five cards available to them, only the best five-card combination counts. Poker variations are played where a "high hand" or a "low hand" may be the best desired hand. In other words, when playing a poker variant with "low poker" the best hand is one that contains the lowest cards (and it can get further complicated by including or not including flushes and straights etc. from "high