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Be Alert or Your Poker Nuts Could Get Crushed!
The beginnings of the phrase "poker nuts" are uncertain although it can be thought to have been dirived from old slang which means "delightful thing, practice or experience". It is a "delightful thing" of course, because in Texas holdem the poker nuts may be the ideal possible side that you’ll be able to have at any level in the game.
If you might have the nuts, you can’t be outdone…at that point in the hand. This would be the essential factor that a great deal of unskilled players fail to consider, the nuts can move from 1 player to yet another and your hands which was the nuts previous on can end up being smashed!
The subsequent example should illustrate the fickle nature of the cards in Texas holdem poker and how your nuts can quickly turn to pulp!
You are wagering a hand of Texas hold’em poker and there are 3 gamblers even now in the casino game at the flop. You get dealt 5 of clubs, eight of diamonds; Amy has 5 of spades, 5 of clubs and Mike’s hands is King, nine of hearts.
The flop is dealt and the cards are 9 of hearts, 6 of hearts and five of diamonds. This really is a fantastic flop for you – you have got the poker nuts! At this stage you have a straight – five, 6, 7, 8, 9 – which can not be beaten by any other mixture of cards.
Now you determine to "slow play" your hands and try to draw a wager from somebody which has a good pair who will like this flop, so you merely check. Amy likes the look of her hand now as she has flopped 3 5s so she makes a bet which is known as by Mike as he now has a pair of 9s with a King kicker. You prefer 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 produce the poker nuts which has a flush, his two hearts in his hand plus the three on the table with Ace King superior now give him an unbeatable hand. Mike bets as he knows he has got the nuts except he wants to extract the max cash from the table so he maintains his wager low enough to acquire called. You still believe you are winning using the directly, in reality the Ace has heightened that opinion as you now think Mike possibly has an Ace in his palm and maybe even two pairs.
He has fallen into your trap! Or so you believe.
The river is dealt and it’s the 5 of hearts. This can be a blow to you as you will find now 4 hearts on view, so anyone using a heart is beating you using a flush. Mike is happy with all the 5 as he nonetheless feels he’s succeeding using the top flush, although his opponents might also have produced a flush and assume they are winning. Amy of course is the real winner as she has just created the nuts with 4 5 spades, her four of the kind can only be beaten by a straight flush or a much better four of a kind. There are not sufficient connected hearts displaying on the table to produce a straight flush and there isn’t a different pair displaying so it truly is impossible to produce 4 of a kind.
Amy wins the pot whilst you and Mike reflect on what ought to have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at 1 stage in the game except failed to realise that the poker nuts – and your fortunes – in Texas hold em can change completely with one turn of the card.