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Be Attentive or Your Poker Nuts Could Get Squashed!
The roots of the phrase "poker nuts" are uncertain although it really is thought to have come from old slang which means "delightful thing, practice or experience". It is actually a "delightful thing" needless to say, because in Texas hold’em the poker nuts is the very best achievable hand that you are able to have at any level in the game.
If you may have the nuts, you cannot be defeated…at that level in the hand. This will be the critical factor that lots of unskilled gamblers fail to consider, the nuts can move from one player to another as well as your palm which was the nuts previous on can end up being crushed!
The following example must illustrate the fickle nature of the cards in Texas hold em poker and how your nuts can swiftly turn to pulp!
You’re playing a palm of Texas holdem poker and there are three players nevertheless in the casino game at the flop. You obtain dealt 7 of clubs, eight of diamonds; Amy has five of spades, five of clubs and Mike’s hands is King, 9 of hearts.
The flop is dealt and the cards are 9 of hearts, 6 of hearts and five of diamonds. It is a good flop for you – you have got the poker nuts! At this point you may have a directly – 5, six, 7, 8, 9 – which can not be defeated by any other mixture of cards.
Now you decide to "slow play" your palm and try to draw a bet from somebody which has a good pair who will like this flop, so you simply check. Amy likes the look of her hands now as she’s flopped 3 five-s so she makes a bet which is known as by Mike as he now has a pair of nines which 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 been able to generate the poker nuts using a flush, his 2 hearts in his hands plus the 3 around the table with Ace King great now give him an unequalled hand. Mike bets as he knows he has got the nuts except he wants to draw out the maximum cash from the table so he keeps his wager low sufficient to obtain called. You nonetheless think you’re succeeding using the directly, in reality the Ace has strengthened that belief as you now reckon Mike possibly has an Ace in his palm and perhaps even 2 pairs.
He has fallen into your trap! Or so you believe.
The river is dealt and it’s the 5 of hearts. This really is a blow to you as you will discover now four hearts on view, so anyone which has a heart is beating you with a flush. Mike is happy with all the 5 as he even now feels he is succeeding together with the top flush, though his competitors may possibly also have produced a flush and assume they’re winning. Amy needless to say is the real winner as she has just produced the nuts with 4 5 spades, her four of a form can only be outdone by a straight flush or a much better four of the kind. There aren’t adequate connected hearts displaying on the table to generate a directly flush and there isn’t a different pair displaying so it truly is not possible to generate four of the kind.
Amy wins the pot while you and Mike reflect on what need to have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at one point in the casino game but failed to realise that the poker nuts – and your fortunes – in Holdem can change entirely with one turn of a card.