Be Alert or Your Poker Nuts Could Get Crushed!
The origins of the phrase "poker nuts" are uncertain although it really is thought to have come from old jargon which means "delightful issue, practice or experience". It is a "delightful thing" of course, because in Hold’em the poker nuts will be the very best feasible side that you’ll be able to have at any point in the game.
If you’ve got the nuts, you can’t be outdone…at that stage in the hand. This will be the essential factor that loads of unskilled gamblers fail to take account of, the nuts can move from one player to a different and your hands which was the nuts earlier on can end up being smashed!
The subsequent example must illustrate the unpredictable nature of the cards in Texas hold em poker and how your nuts can quickly turn to pulp!
You are playing a hands of Texas hold’em poker and there are three players nonetheless in the casino game at the flop. You have dealt 7 of clubs, 8 of diamonds; Amy has five of spades, five of clubs and Mike’s hands is King, nine of hearts.
The flop is dealt and the cards are nine of hearts, 6 of hearts and 5 of diamonds. This is a good flop for you – you’ve got the poker nuts! At this point you might have a directly – 5, 6, seven, eight, nine – which can’t be beaten by any other mixture of cards.
Now you determine to "slow play" your palm and try to draw a wager from somebody which has a superior pair who will like this flop, so you merely check. Amy likes the look of her palm now as she’s flopped 3 5 spades so she makes a bet which is called by Mike as he now has a pair of 9s which has a King kicker. You prefer the way it is going so you call the bet.
The turn card is Ace of hearts. Mike is now smiling to himself as he has just managed to make the poker nuts which has a flush, his two hearts in his hand plus the three around the table with Ace King high now give him an unequalled hand. Mike wagers as he knows he’s got the nuts but he wants to draw out the max cash from the table so he maintains his bet low adequate to have called. You nevertheless feel you’re winning using the straight, in fact the Ace has strengthened that belief as you now reckon Mike most likely has an Ace in his hands and maybe even 2 pairs.
He has fallen into your trap! Or so you believe.
The river is dealt and it’s the five of hearts. This is a blow to you as you can find now four hearts on view, so anyone with a heart is beating you which has a flush. Mike is happy using the 5 as he nonetheless feels he is succeeding with the top flush, though his opponents may possibly also have produced a flush and believe they are winning. Amy of course could be the real winner as she has just made the nuts with four five-s, her four of the kind can only be defeated by a straight flush or a greater 4 of a kind. There aren’t sufficient connected hearts showing on the table to generate a directly flush and there isn’t yet another pair showing so it really is not possible to generate four of the kind.
Amy captures the pot although you and Mike reflect on what ought to have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at one level in the casino game but failed to realise that the poker nuts – as well as your fortunes – in Texas hold em can change entirely with one turn of the card.
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