Be Attentive or Your Poker Nuts Will Get Destroyed!
April 12th, 2011 at 2:21
The origins of the phrase "poker nuts" are uncertain even though it truly is thought to have been dirived from old jargon meaning "delightful issue, practice or experience". It is actually a "delightful thing" naturally, because in Texas hold’em the poker nuts would be the greatest feasible side that it is possible to have at any point in the game.
If you might have the nuts, you cannot be outdone…at that stage in the hand. This could be the critical factor that plenty of unskilled players fail to consider, the nuts can move from 1 gambler to an additional along with your hands which was the nuts previous on can end up being smashed!
The subsequent example really should illustrate the fickle nature of the cards in Hold em poker and how your nuts can speedily turn to pulp!
You’re wagering a side of Texas holdem poker and there are 3 gamblers nevertheless in the casino game at the flop. You obtain dealt seven of clubs, eight of diamonds; Amy has five of spades, 5 of clubs and Mike’s palm is King, 9 of hearts.
The flop is dealt and the cards are 9 of hearts, six of hearts and 5 of diamonds. This really is a fantastic flop for you – you have got the poker nuts! At this point you’ve got a straight – five, six, 7, 8, 9 – which can not be beaten by any other combination of cards.
Now you choose to "slow play" your side and try to draw a wager from somebody using a good pair who will like this flop, so you merely check. Amy likes the look of her side now as she has flopped three 5s so she makes a wager which is named by Mike as he now has a pair of nines which has a King kicker. You like the way it is 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 using a flush, his two hearts in his hand plus the three 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 draw out the max cash from the table so he keeps his wager low sufficient to get called. You even now consider you’re succeeding using the straight, in reality the Ace has heightened that opinion as you now reckon Mike probably 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’s the five of hearts. This is a blow to you as you will find now four hearts on view, so anyone which has a heart is beating you which has a flush. Mike is happy together with the 5 as he still feels he’s succeeding with all the top flush, although his opponents may possibly also have manufactured a flush and consider they’re winning. Amy needless to say could be the real winner as she has just manufactured the nuts with 4 five spades, her 4 of the variety can only be outdone by a directly flush or a much better four of the kind. There aren’t sufficient connected hearts showing around the table to produce a directly flush and there is not a different pair displaying so it can be impossible to generate four of a kind.
Amy wins the pot even though you and Mike reflect on what must have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at one stage in the game but failed to realise that the poker nuts – along with your fortunes – in Texas hold em can change entirely with one turn of the card.