Be Attentive or Your Poker Nuts Might Get Squashed!
Posted in Poker on 11/28/2010 12:21 am by Lilly
The beginnings of the phrase "poker nuts" are uncertain even though it is thought to have come from old slang meaning "delightful issue, practice or experience". It is actually a "delightful thing" needless to say, because in Holdem the poker nuts will be the very best feasible palm that you are able to have at any point in the game.
If you have the nuts, you can’t be beaten…at that stage in the hand. This could be the crucial factor that a great deal of unskilled players fail to take account of, the nuts can move from one player to a different and your hands which was the nuts earlier on can end up being smashed!
The following example must illustrate the unpredictable nature of the cards in Hold’em poker and how your nuts can rapidly turn to pulp!
You are wagering a side of Texas hold em poker and there are three gamblers still in the casino game at the flop. You receive dealt 5 of clubs, eight of diamonds; Amy has 5 of spades, five 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 five of diamonds. This is a good flop for you – you have got the poker nuts! At this point you’ve got a directly – 5, 6, seven, eight, nine – which can not be defeated by any other combination of cards.
Now you determine to "slow play" your hands and try to draw a wager 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 five-s so she makes a wager which is known as by Mike as he now has a pair of nines using a King kicker. You prefer 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 managed to produce the poker nuts using a flush, his 2 hearts in his side plus the 3 around the table with Ace King great now give him an unequalled hand. Mike bets as he knows he’s got the nuts but he wants to extract the maximum cash from the table so he keeps his bet low sufficient to acquire called. You nevertheless feel you are succeeding together with the directly, in fact the Ace has heightened that opinion as you now reckon Mike probably has an Ace in his hand and perhaps even 2 pairs.
He’s dropped into your trap! Or so you think.
The river is dealt and it is the 5 of hearts. This is a blow to you as there are now 4 hearts on view, so anyone which has a heart is beating you with a flush. Mike is happy with the five as he nonetheless feels he is winning using the top flush, even though his opponents might also have created a flush and consider they are winning. Amy needless to say will be the real winner as she has just produced the nuts with four five spades, her four of a sort can only be outdone by a directly flush or a far better 4 of the kind. There aren’t adequate connected hearts showing on the table to produce a straight flush and there isn’t yet another pair showing so it can be not possible to generate 4 of the kind.
Amy wins the pot whilst you and Mike reflect on what must have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at one stage in the game except failed to realise that the poker nuts – along with your fortunes – in Texas hold em can change completely with one turn of the card.