Be Alert or Your Poker Nuts Will Get Crushed!
November 11th, 2012 at 1:21
The roots of the phrase "poker nuts" are unsure even though it can be thought to have come from old slang which means "delightful thing, practice or experience". It is a "delightful thing" naturally, because in Texas holdem the poker nuts will be the best possible hands that you can have at any stage in the game.
If you might have the nuts, you can not be defeated…at that point in the hand. This is the crucial factor that loads of unskilled gamblers fail to consider, the nuts can move from one gambler to yet another along with your palm which was the nuts previous on can end up being smashed!
The subsequent example really should illustrate the fickle nature of the cards in Texas holdem poker and how your nuts can rapidly turn to pulp!
You might be playing a hands of Texas hold’em poker and there are 3 players even now in the game at the flop. You get dealt seven of clubs, eight of diamonds; Amy has 5 of spades, five of clubs and Mike’s palm is King, nine of hearts.
The flop is dealt and the cards are nine of hearts, six of hearts and 5 of diamonds. It is a fantastic flop for you – you have got the poker nuts! At this level you might have a straight – 5, 6, seven, 8, nine – which cannot be defeated by any other mixture of cards.
Now you choose to "slow play" your side and try to draw a bet from somebody using a superior pair who will like this flop, so you basically check. Amy likes the look of her hand now as she’s flopped 3 5s so she makes a bet which is named by Mike as he now has a pair of nines that has a King kicker. You like the way it is going so you call the wager.
The turn card is Ace of hearts. Mike is now smiling to himself as he has just managed to make the poker nuts using a flush, his 2 hearts in his palm plus the 3 on the table with Ace King high now give him an unequalled hand. Mike bets as he knows he’s got the nuts but he wants to draw out the max cash from the table so he keeps his wager low sufficient to receive called. You nonetheless believe you’re succeeding together with the directly, in fact the Ace has heightened that perception as you now think Mike probably has an Ace in his hand and maybe even two pairs.
He has dropped into your trap! Or so you think.
The river is dealt and it is the five of hearts. This can be a blow to you as you can find now 4 hearts on view, so anyone having a heart is beating you having a flush. Mike is happy with the five as he nevertheless feels he’s succeeding together with the top flush, while his opponents may also have created a flush and consider they’re winning. Amy of course may be the real winner as she has just created the nuts with 4 five spades, her four of the variety can only be outdone by a straight flush or a far better 4 of a kind. There are not enough connected hearts displaying around the table to produce a straight flush and there is not a different pair showing so it really is impossible to generate four of a kind.
Amy captures the pot even though you and Mike reflect on what should have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at 1 level in the casino game but failed to realise that the poker nuts – along with your fortunes – in Hold em can change completely with one turn of a card.