Posted by Reid | Posted in Poker | Posted on 13-02-2011
The origins of the phrase "poker nuts" are unclear although it is thought to have been dirived from old slang meaning "delightful factor, practice or experience". It is really a "delightful thing" of course, because in Texas holdem the poker nuts would be the finest feasible side that you can have at any level in the game.
If you might have the nuts, you can’t be beaten…at that level in the hand. This may be the essential factor that loads of unskilled gamblers fail to consider, the nuts can move from 1 gambler to yet another along with your side which was the nuts earlier on can end up being smashed!
The subsequent example really should show the unpredictable nature of the cards in Hold’em poker and how your nuts can quickly turn to pulp!
You’re betting a hands of Hold em poker and there are three gamblers nevertheless in the game at the flop. You get dealt 5 of clubs, eight of diamonds; Amy has five of spades, five of clubs and Mike’s palm is King, 9 of hearts.
The flop is dealt and the cards are nine of hearts, six of hearts and 5 of diamonds. This is a wonderful flop for you – you’ve got the poker nuts! At this stage you may have a straight – five, 6, seven, 8, nine – which cannot be beaten by any other mixture of cards.
Now you decide to "slow play" your palm and try to draw a bet from somebody with a high pair who will like this flop, so you merely check. Amy likes the look of her palm now as she has flopped three five spades so she makes a bet which is known as by Mike as he now has a pair of nines which has 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 grinning to himself as he has just managed to make the poker nuts using a flush, his two hearts in his side plus the three around 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 maximum cash from the table so he keeps his wager low adequate to get called. You nonetheless think you’re winning using the straight, in reality the Ace has strengthened that belief as you now think Mike possibly has an Ace in his palm and maybe even 2 pairs.
He has dropped into your trap! Or so you believe.
The river is dealt and it is the five of hearts. This can be a blow to you as there are now four hearts on view, so anyone with a heart is beating you which has a flush. Mike is happy together with the 5 as he nonetheless feels he’s succeeding with all the top flush, although his competitors might also have made a flush and consider they are winning. Amy needless to say could be the real winner as she has just produced the nuts with 4 five-s, her four of the sort can only be defeated by a straight flush or a better four of the kind. There are not adequate connected hearts displaying around the table to generate a straight flush and there isn’t another pair displaying so it’s impossible to generate four of the kind.
Amy wins the pot whilst you and Mike reflect on what ought to have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at one stage in the casino game except failed to realise that the poker nuts – and your fortunes – in Hold em can change totally with 1 turn of a card.