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What is the dead man's hand ?

In poker parlance if you have 2 pair aces & eights you have the Dead Man's Hand, so named after Wild Bill Hickok who was said to be holding aces and eights when he was shot in the back by Jack McCall in the Mann-Lewis Saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota, August 2, 1876.

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