Be Attentive or Your Poker Nuts Will Get Squashed!
January 28th, 2013 at 11:21
The origins of the phrase "poker nuts" are unsure although it can be thought to have come from old jargon meaning "delightful point, practice or experience". It is really a "delightful thing" of course, because in Texas hold’em the poker nuts is the finest achievable palm that it is possible to have at any point in the game.
If you have the nuts, you cannot be beaten…at that level in the hand. This may be the essential factor that plenty of inexperienced gamblers fail to consider, the nuts can move from 1 gambler to one more and your side which was the nuts previous on can end up being smashed!
The following example need to show the unpredictable nature of the cards in Texas hold’em poker and how your nuts can rapidly turn to pulp!
You’re playing a hands of Holdem poker and there are three gamblers still in the casino game at the flop. You obtain dealt 7 of clubs, eight 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 9 of hearts, six of hearts and 5 of diamonds. It is a wonderful flop for you – you have got the poker nuts! At this stage you’ve got a directly – 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 – which can not be beaten by any other mixture of cards.
Now you determine to "slow play" your side and try to draw a wager from somebody that has a superior pair who will like this flop, so you merely check. Amy likes the look of her palm now as she has flopped three five-s so she makes a wager which is known as by Mike as he now has a pair of nines with a King kicker. You like the way it’s going so you call the bet.
The turn card is Ace of hearts. Mike is now smiling to himself as he has just been able to generate the poker nuts which has a flush, his 2 hearts in his palm plus the 3 on the table with Ace King great now give him an unbeatable hand. Mike bets as he knows he’s got the nuts except he wants to extract the max cash from the table so he keeps his bet low sufficient to obtain called. You even now consider you’re succeeding using the directly, in reality the Ace has increased that belief as you now think Mike most likely has an Ace in his side and maybe even 2 pairs.
He’s fallen into your trap! Or so you think.
The river is dealt and it’s the 5 of hearts. This can be a blow to you as there are now 4 hearts on view, so anyone which has a heart is defeating you which has a flush. Mike is happy with all the five as he nonetheless feels he’s succeeding using the top flush, although his opponents may also have produced a flush and consider they are winning. Amy naturally could be the real winner as she has just made the nuts with 4 five spades, her 4 of a sort can only be beaten by a straight flush or a greater four of a kind. There are not adequate connected hearts displaying around the table to make a directly flush and there isn’t a different pair displaying so it’s impossible to produce 4 of a kind.
Amy wins the pot even though you and Mike reflect on what should have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at 1 stage in the casino game but failed to realise that the poker nuts – and your fortunes – in Holdem can change completely with 1 turn of a card.