Be Alert or Your Poker Nuts Could Get Crushed!
January 27th, 2014 at 18:21
The roots of the phrase "poker nuts" are unsure even though it is thought to have come from old slang which means "delightful factor, practice or experience". It is really a "delightful thing" obviously, because in Texas hold’em the poker nuts is the very best achievable palm that you can have at any level in the game.
If you’ve got the nuts, you can’t be beaten…at that level in the hand. This would be the crucial factor that lots of unskilled players fail to take account of, the nuts can move from one gambler to yet another along with your hand which was the nuts earlier on can end up being smashed!
The following example ought to illustrate the unpredictable nature of the cards in Hold em poker and how your nuts can quickly turn to pulp!
You’re playing a palm of Texas holdem poker and there are three gamblers nonetheless in the casino game at the flop. You obtain dealt 7 of clubs, 8 of diamonds; Amy has 5 of spades, 5 of clubs and Mike’s hand is King, 9 of hearts.
The flop is dealt and the cards are 9 of hearts, six of hearts and five of diamonds. This is a good flop for you – you’ve got the poker nuts! At this stage you might have a directly – five, six, seven, eight, 9 – which can not be beaten by any other mixture of cards.
Now you determine to "slow play" your palm and attempt to draw a wager from somebody using a good pair who will like this flop, so you simply check. Amy likes the look of her hands now as she’s flopped three five-s so she makes a bet which is named by Mike as he now has a pair of 9s having a King kicker. You prefer 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 been able to make the poker nuts having a flush, his two hearts in his palm plus the 3 around the table with Ace King good now give him an unequalled hand. Mike bets as he knows he’s got the nuts but he wants to extract the max cash from the table so he maintains his wager low enough to get called. You nonetheless think you’re succeeding together with the straight, in fact the Ace has strengthened that opinion as you now think Mike possibly has an Ace in his palm and perhaps even two pairs.
He’s dropped into your trap! Or so you believe.
The river is dealt and it is the five of hearts. It is a blow to you as you will discover now 4 hearts on view, so anyone that has a heart is defeating you having a flush. Mike is happy together with the five as he nevertheless feels he is succeeding with all the top flush, whilst his competitors may perhaps also have created a flush and feel they’re winning. Amy naturally may be the real winner as she has just made the nuts with four five spades, her 4 of the kind can only be beaten by a directly flush or a much better four of a kind. There aren’t adequate connected hearts displaying around the table to generate a straight flush and there isn’t a different pair showing so it’s not possible to make four of the kind.
Amy captures the pot although you and Mike reflect on what must have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at 1 stage in the game except failed to realise that the poker nuts – as well as your fortunes – in Holdem can change entirely with one turn of a card.