Be Careful or Your Poker Nuts Might Get Squashed!
Posted in Poker on 09/30/2013 01:21 am by Marley
The origins of the phrase "poker nuts" are unsure even though it truly is thought to have been dirived from old jargon meaning "delightful issue, practice or experience". It is really a "delightful thing" naturally, because in Hold’em the poker nuts will be the ideal achievable hand that you may have at any level in the game.
If you’ve got the nuts, you can’t be defeated…at that stage in the hand. This may be the essential factor that a lot of inexperienced gamblers fail to consider, the nuts can move from one gambler to an additional as well as your palm which was the nuts earlier on can end up being crushed!
The subsequent example should show the fickle nature of the cards in Hold em poker and how your nuts can swiftly turn to pulp!
You are wagering a hand of Texas hold’em poker and there are 3 gamblers still in the game at the flop. You get dealt 7 of clubs, 8 of diamonds; Amy has five of spades, 5 of clubs and Mike’s hands is King, 9 of hearts.
The flop is dealt and the cards are nine of hearts, six of hearts and 5 of diamonds. This really is a wonderful flop for you – you have got the poker nuts! At this point you may have a directly – five, 6, seven, 8, nine – which cannot be beaten by any other combination of cards.
Now you determine to "slow play" your hands and attempt to draw a bet from somebody having a high pair who will like this flop, so you simply check. Amy likes the look of her palm now as she has flopped three 5 spades so she makes a wager which is named 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 wager.
The turn card is Ace of hearts. Mike is now smiling to himself as he has just been able to make the poker nuts that has a flush, his 2 hearts in his palm plus the three around the table with Ace King high now give him an unequalled hand. Mike bets as he knows he’s got the nuts but he wants to draw out the maximum cash from the table so he maintains his bet low enough to acquire called. You even now feel you’re succeeding with all the straight, in fact the Ace has heightened that opinion as you now think Mike possibly has an Ace in his side and perhaps even 2 pairs.
He has fallen 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 find now 4 hearts on view, so anyone having a heart is defeating you with a flush. Mike is happy using the 5 as he even now feels he is winning with all the top flush, even though his opponents may also have made a flush and think they are winning. Amy of course is the real winner as she has just produced the nuts with 4 five-s, her 4 of the variety can only be beaten by a directly flush or a much better 4 of a kind. There aren’t adequate connected hearts displaying around the table to make a directly flush and there is not another pair showing so it can be impossible to produce four of the kind.
Amy captures the pot while you and Mike reflect on what should have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at 1 stage in the casino game except failed to realise that the poker nuts – and your fortunes – in Holdem can change entirely with 1 turn of the card.