<P> 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 . </P>
<P> 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 . </P>
where did the term aces and eights come from
where did the term aces and eights come from
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
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