Be Careful or Your Poker Nuts Might Get Squashed!
April 3rd, 2011 at 9:21
The roots of the phrase "poker nuts" are unsure even though it’s thought to have come from old jargon which means "delightful thing, practice or experience". It can be a "delightful thing" of course, because in Texas hold’em the poker nuts may be the very best achievable palm that it is possible to have at any level in the game.
If you may have the nuts, you can’t be defeated…at that stage in the hand. This would be the critical factor that plenty of unskilled players fail to consider, the nuts can move from 1 player to another and your palm which was the nuts earlier on can end up being smashed!
The subsequent example need to illustrate the unpredictable nature of the cards in Texas hold’em poker and how your nuts can rapidly turn to pulp!
You’re wagering a side of Texas holdem poker and there are three gamblers nonetheless in the game at the flop. You obtain dealt seven 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, 6 of hearts and 5 of diamonds. This is a fantastic flop for you – you’ve got the poker nuts! At this stage you may have a straight – five, 6, seven, 8, 9 – which can not be beaten by any other combination of cards.
Now you choose to "slow play" your hand and attempt to draw a wager from somebody having a great pair who will like this flop, so you merely check. Amy likes the look of her hand now as she has flopped 3 five spades so she makes a bet which is known as by Mike as he now has a pair of nines with a King kicker. You prefer the way it is going so you call the bet.
The turn card is Ace of hearts. Mike is now smiling to himself as he has just managed to produce the poker nuts having a flush, his two hearts in his palm plus the 3 around the table with Ace King high now give him an unbeatable hand. Mike bets as he knows he has got the nuts but he wants to extract the max cash from the table so he maintains his bet low adequate to obtain called. You nonetheless consider you are winning using the directly, in reality the Ace has increased that perception as you now reckon Mike possibly has an Ace in his hands and maybe even two pairs.
He has dropped into your trap! Or so you believe.
The river is dealt and it is the 5 of hearts. It is a blow to you as you will discover now 4 hearts on view, so anyone using a heart is beating you which has a flush. Mike is happy with all the 5 as he nonetheless feels he is winning together with the top flush, while his opponents might also have manufactured a flush and think they’re winning. Amy naturally would be the real winner as she has just created the nuts with four five-s, her four of the kind can only be defeated by a directly flush or a better 4 of a kind. There are not sufficient connected hearts displaying around the table to produce a directly flush and there isn’t a different pair displaying so it truly is impossible to produce four of a kind.
Amy captures the pot while you and Mike reflect on what must have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at one level in the game except failed to realise that the poker nuts – along with your fortunes – in Holdem can change completely with 1 turn of a card.