Question of the Day - 22 October 2025

Along with "Snake Eyes", isn't there a metaphor for every dice combo in craps?  Like Boxcars--when double sixes is rolled.

A Beethoven--the "two, two, two and one", or "dah dah dah dahhh' dealt hand in High Card Flush.

Pocket Lint--Lower than the lowest casino tier level.  I credit Kevin Lewis with this one.  "The casino caters to high rollers.  I'm 'pocket lint' there."

Luck of the Irish--Has different meanings positive and negative, complimentary or disparaging.  Depends on context.

Candy

The "Mother In Law Hand" in Blackjack....

You want to hit it, but you know you can't.

When a gambler gets frustrated after losing multiple hands and starts playing recklessly and continues to lose their bankroll. 

Great list. Needs to be made a pamphlet. Us players have
our own language!

Hey Candy, this is about the names of your first two cards dealt in poker. Next time your in the LVA office check out the framed poster on the wall showing all the names like bullets and cowboys. It's pretty cool and I'd bet that you would like it.

If it was for sale @ LVA

"The less you bet, the more you lose when you win."

Yeah, David, now I'm remembering the "Dead Man's Hand", Aces and Eights.  After one of the famous gunslingers??? 

Candy

"Scared money never wins."

Lee Trevino: "Pressure is playing for $5 with $3 in your pocket."

Aces and eights was the hand Wild Bill Hickcok was holding when Jack McCall shot him in the back.

If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all. 

"it's better to be lucky than be good". :P

I remember a really old Abbot and Costello bit where Costello supposedly has never played craps before but right after he rolls the dice he yells "Little Joe" (or something like that).  I'm not sure what dice he rolled.

Thanks for the Wild Bill answer.  I get those guys mixed up.  LOL.

Candy

According to "some" sources, he was holding The A and 8 of spades
and the A & 8 of clubs.

Playing the field (craps term, meaning you have a lot of numbers)

Roll the bones cuz baby needs new shoes.

The buck in poker is the dealer button indicating who has the "responsibility of dealing" out the cards (or is treated as the dealer when there is a designated dealer.

"Passing the buck" came to mean shirking responsibility. And President Trumans' famous "The buck stops here" sign on his desk indicating his unwillingness to shirk responsibility.

In know there are many other American idioms that refer to gambling that we don't realize. Of course I can't think of many others right now other than, "I'm crapped out" meaning "I'm done."

“The deck hit me over the head.”  Means I just got dealt a slew of great hands in a short time.