Wesley began to relax; at first, he had feared that Fred would pick something completely inane, such as five-card stud, deuces, treys, one-eyed jacks, and suicidal kings wild.

"To these people you're a one-eyed jack, but I've seen the other side of that card."

Two aces', two sevens, and a one-eyed jack.

There he would flash a one-eyed jack with a text "Be quick, be quiet, or you're dead.

This is the basis of the trump "one-eyed jacks and the man with the axe".

I may have to play a hand too, and there are too many jokers and one-eyed jacks in this deck.

Then you heard ladies in the supermarket talking about cherry pie, one-eyed jacks, and their gall bladder problems, and knew it was mainstream, which is the cool word for death on wheels.

"Shall we keep it five-card draw, deuces and one-eyed jacks wild?"

But people who have run afoul of him say his poker face conceals a one-eyed jack with a dark and occasionally vindictive side.

There are only so many one-eyed jacks in the deck.