Be Mindful or Your Poker Nuts Could Get Crushed!
Posted in Poker on 01/13/2013 09:21 pm by Izaiah
The beginnings of the phrase "poker nuts" are unclear although it really is thought to have come from old slang which means "delightful point, practice or experience". It is often a "delightful thing" obviously, because in Texas hold em the poker nuts is the very best possible hand that you can have at any level in the game.
If you might have the nuts, you can not be outdone…at that point in the hand. This will be the crucial factor that a lot of unskilled players fail to take account of, the nuts can move from 1 gambler to yet another along with your hand which was the nuts earlier on can end up being smashed!
The subsequent example must show the unpredictable nature of the cards in Holdem poker and how your nuts can rapidly turn to pulp!
You are wagering a side of Holdem poker and there are three gamblers even now in the casino game at the flop. You have dealt 5 of clubs, eight of diamonds; Amy has 5 of spades, five of clubs and Mike’s hand is King, nine of hearts.
The flop is dealt and the cards are 9 of hearts, six of hearts and 5 of diamonds. This really is a great flop for you – you have got the poker nuts! At this stage you may have a straight – 5, 6, seven, eight, 9 – which can’t be defeated by any other mixture of cards.
Now you determine to "slow play" your palm and attempt to draw a bet from somebody with a good pair who will like this flop, so you merely check. Amy likes the look of her hand now as she’s flopped three five spades so she makes a wager which is called by Mike as he now has a pair of nines with a King kicker. You prefer the way it’s going so you call the bet.
The turn card is Ace of hearts. Mike is now smiling to himself as he has just been able to generate the poker nuts having a flush, his two hearts in his hands plus the three around the table with Ace King great now give him an unequalled hand. Mike wagers as he knows he has got the nuts except he wants to draw out the max cash from the table so he maintains his bet low enough to get called. You even now think you are succeeding with all the directly, in fact the Ace has heightened that belief as you now think Mike possibly has an Ace in his hands and perhaps even 2 pairs.
He’s fallen 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 can find now 4 hearts on view, so anyone with a heart is defeating you with a flush. Mike is happy with all the 5 as he still feels he is succeeding using the top flush, while his opponents may perhaps also have manufactured a flush and feel they are winning. Amy obviously is the real winner as she has just made the nuts with four 5s, her 4 of the kind can only be defeated by a directly flush or a much better 4 of the kind. There are not sufficient connected hearts displaying around the table to generate a straight flush and there is not yet another pair showing so it’s not possible to generate 4 of the kind.
Amy captures the pot even though you and Mike reflect on what need to have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at one level in the casino game but failed to realise that the poker nuts – along with your fortunes – in Texas hold em can change totally with one turn of a card.