Dead Man's Hand-poker

[Douglas G. Wilson]

None of the items I've found (1888-1910) mentions Hickok.

Another "dead man's hand" from the early 1890's (a couple of different
anecdotes): three jacks plus two red sevens. E.g.:

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"Woodland Daily Democrat" [Woodland CA], 13 July 1891: p. 4 (?), col. 4
[attrib. "New York Telegram"]:

<<"I have drawn a pair of sevens. I now hold jacks full on red sevens. It
is a fatal hand. No one ever yet held it and left the card table alive. ....">>

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-- Doug Wilson