Be Cautious or Your Poker Nuts Might Get Crushed!
Posted in Poker on 12/26/2012 08:21 am by Christopher
The roots of the phrase "poker nuts" are unsure although it is thought to have come from old jargon meaning "delightful point, practice or experience". It is often a "delightful thing" of course, because in Hold’em the poker nuts could be the best possible hands that you are able to have at any level in the game.
If you’ve got the nuts, you can not be outdone…at that level in the hand. This could be the essential factor that a lot of inexperienced gamblers fail to take account of, the nuts can move from 1 player to a different along with your side which was the nuts earlier on can end up being crushed!
The following example should show the fickle nature of the cards in Texas hold em poker and how your nuts can swiftly turn to pulp!
You might be wagering a side of Texas hold em poker and there are 3 players still in the casino game at the flop. You get dealt seven of clubs, eight of diamonds; Amy has five of spades, five of clubs and Mike’s palm is King, nine of hearts.
The flop is dealt and the cards are nine of hearts, 6 of hearts and 5 of diamonds. This can be a wonderful flop for you – you have got the poker nuts! At this stage you’ve got a directly – 5, 6, seven, 8, 9 – which can’t be defeated by any other mixture 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 merely check. Amy likes the look of her side now as she’s flopped 3 five-s so she makes a wager which is named by Mike as he now has a pair of nines using a King kicker. You like the way it is 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 produce the poker nuts that has a flush, his two hearts in his palm plus the 3 around the table with Ace King good now give him an unbeatable hand. Mike bets as he knows he’s got the nuts but he wants to extract the max cash from the table so he maintains his wager low adequate to obtain called. You still assume you’re succeeding using the straight, in reality the Ace has heightened that belief as you now reckon Mike probably has an Ace in his palm and maybe even 2 pairs.
He has dropped into your trap! Or so you think.
The river is dealt and it is the five of hearts. This really is a blow to you as you’ll find now 4 hearts on view, so anyone with a heart is defeating you that has a flush. Mike is happy together with the 5 as he nevertheless feels he is winning with the top flush, even though his competitors may also have produced a flush and consider they are winning. Amy needless to say is the real winner as she has just produced the nuts with four 5 spades, her four of the sort can only be outdone by a straight flush or a greater 4 of a kind. There aren’t adequate connected hearts showing around the table to produce a straight flush and there is not an additional pair showing so it truly is not possible to generate 4 of a kind.
Amy captures the pot while you and Mike reflect on what really should have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at one stage in the casino game except failed to realise that the poker nuts – along with your fortunes – in Hold’em can change completely with one turn of the card.