Dead Man's Hand-poker (addendum)

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>At a glance, ancestry.com shows the idea of the dead man's hand from 1885,
>the actual phrase "dead man's hand" from 1888 (for aces and eights) and
>from 1905 (for jacks and eights). I searched with "jacks/eights",
>"aces/eights". The idiot search engine can't handle "dead man's hand" for
>whatever reason.

Oops, the 1885 date is an error. 1888 is the earliest. If necessary I can
post the exact sources and quotations.

-- Doug Wilson