Be Alert or Your Poker Nuts Might Get Crushed!
August 14th, 2012 at 4:21
The beginnings of the phrase "poker nuts" are uncertain even though it’s thought to have come from old slang meaning "delightful factor, practice or experience". It is actually a "delightful thing" obviously, because in Texas hold’em the poker nuts could be the greatest feasible hands that you are able to have at any stage in the game.
If you have the nuts, you can’t be beaten…at that stage in the hand. This is the critical factor that lots of inexperienced players fail to take account of, the nuts can move from 1 player to yet another as well as your side which was the nuts earlier on can end up being smashed!
The subsequent example really should illustrate the unpredictable nature of the cards in Hold em poker and how your nuts can rapidly turn to pulp!
You’re wagering a palm of Holdem poker and there are 3 gamblers even now in the casino game at the flop. You obtain dealt five of clubs, 8 of diamonds; Amy has five of spades, five of clubs and Mike’s side is King, 9 of hearts.
The flop is dealt and the cards are 9 of hearts, six of hearts and 5 of diamonds. This is a excellent flop for you – you’ve got the poker nuts! At this level you may have a directly – five, 6, seven, eight, nine – which can not be defeated by any other combination of cards.
Now you decide to "slow play" your hands and try to draw a bet from somebody that has a good pair who will like this flop, so you merely check. Amy likes the look of her palm now as she has flopped three five spades so she makes a bet which is referred to as by Mike as he now has a pair of nines that has a King kicker. You like the way it’s going so you call the bet.
The turn card is Ace of hearts. Mike is now grinning to himself as he has just managed to generate the poker nuts which has a flush, his two hearts in his side plus the 3 on the table with Ace King great now give him an unbeatable hand. Mike wagers as he knows he has got the nuts but he wants to draw out the max cash from the table so he keeps his bet low adequate to acquire called. You even now assume you’re succeeding together with the straight, in reality the Ace has heightened that belief as you now reckon Mike possibly has an Ace in his palm and maybe even two pairs.
He’s fallen into your trap! Or so you believe.
The river is dealt and it’s the 5 of hearts. It is a blow to you as you will find now 4 hearts on view, so anyone having a heart is beating you that has a flush. Mike is happy together with the 5 as he nonetheless feels he is succeeding together with the top flush, even though his opponents may also have produced a flush and feel they’re winning. Amy of course is the real winner as she has just produced the nuts with four five-s, her four of a form can only be outdone by a directly flush or a greater four of a kind. There aren’t sufficient connected hearts displaying around the table to produce a directly flush and there is not an additional pair displaying so it can be not possible to produce four of the kind.
Amy captures the pot although you and Mike reflect on what really should have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at one point in the casino game except failed to realise that the poker nuts – as well as your fortunes – in Texas holdem can change completely with one turn of a card.