Dead Man's Hand in Spanish?

[qwerty2121]

Can someone please translate "Dead Man's Hand" in spanish?
Thank you in advance

[Rusty]

I suppose you mean the poker hand.

Some sites on the web aimed at the Spanish speaker just leave the name of the poker hand untranslated, but explain what it is in Spanish. It is translated 'la mano del muerto' on some sites, while others translate it as '(la) mano del hombre muerto'. Both are good translations, but the first is more popular.

[sosia]

I'm with Rusty, "mano del muerto " or perhaps not to translate it.
Wikipedia and other poker sites says "Mano del muerto " http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mano_del_Muerto, I have found also "Mano muerta", but I don't know it is the same or not


curious info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Bill_Hickok
On August 2, 1876, while playing poker at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon No. 10 in Deadwood, in the Black Hills, Dakota Territory, Hickok could not find an empty seat in the corner, where he always sat in order to protect himself against sneak attacks from behind, and instead sat with his back to one door and facing another. His paranoia was prescient: he was shot in the back of the head with a .45-caliber revolver by Jack McCall. Legend has it that Hickok was playing poker when he was shot, was holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights. The fifth card is either unknown, or, as some say, had not yet been dealt. "Aces and eights" thus is known as the "Dead Man's Hand".


saludos

[qwerty2121]

Thanks - very informative