Posted by Isaac | Posted in Poker | Posted on 24-07-2013
The beginnings of the phrase "poker nuts" are uncertain although it really is thought to have come from old jargon which means "delightful thing, practice or experience". It is really a "delightful thing" needless to say, because in Holdem the poker nuts is the greatest possible hand that you may have at any stage in the game.
If you’ve the nuts, you cannot be beaten…at that stage in the hand. This will be the essential factor that plenty of inexperienced gamblers fail to consider, the nuts can move from 1 gambler to another and your hand which was the nuts previous on can end up being smashed!
The following example ought to illustrate the unpredictable nature of the cards in Texas hold’em poker and how your nuts can rapidly turn to pulp!
You are playing a palm of Texas holdem poker and there are 3 players nevertheless in the game at the flop. You acquire dealt five 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. It is a good flop for you – you have got the poker nuts! At this stage you may have a directly – 5, six, seven, 8, nine – which can not be defeated by any other mixture of cards.
Now you decide to "slow play" your side and try to draw a bet from somebody that has a good pair who will like this flop, so you simply check. Amy likes the look of her hands now as she’s flopped 3 five spades so she makes a wager which is named by Mike as he now has a pair of 9s using 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 grinning to himself as he has just managed to produce the poker nuts using a flush, his 2 hearts in his palm plus the three on the table with Ace King good now give him an unbeatable hand. Mike wagers as he knows he has got the nuts but he wants to draw out the max cash from the table so he keeps his bet low sufficient to acquire called. You nonetheless feel you’re succeeding together with the straight, in reality the Ace has strengthened that perception as you now think Mike probably has an Ace in his hand and perhaps even two pairs.
He has fallen into your trap! Or so you think.
The river is dealt and it’s the 5 of hearts. This really is a blow to you as you will find now four hearts on view, so anyone having a heart is beating you with a flush. Mike is happy using the 5 as he nonetheless feels he’s succeeding using the top flush, even though his competitors may also have created a flush and believe they are winning. Amy naturally will be the real winner as she has just produced the nuts with four 5s, her four of a type can only be defeated by a straight flush or a far better 4 of the kind. There aren’t enough connected hearts displaying around the table to produce a straight flush and there isn’t another pair displaying so it can be impossible to generate four of the kind.
Amy captures the pot while you and Mike reflect on what really should have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at one stage in the game but failed to realise that the poker nuts – and your fortunes – in Hold em can change completely with 1 turn of a card.