The beginnings of the phrase "poker nuts" are unclear although it’s thought to have been dirived from old slang meaning "delightful point, practice or experience". It can be a "delightful thing" needless to say, because in Hold’em the poker nuts will be the very best feasible hands that it is possible to have at any level in the game.
If you may have the nuts, you can not be beaten…at that stage in the hand. This would be the crucial factor that lots of unskilled players fail to consider, the nuts can move from one gambler to a different along with your hand which was the nuts previous on can end up being crushed!
The following example should demonstrate the unpredictable nature of the cards in Hold em poker and how your nuts can speedily turn to pulp!
You might be playing a side of Holdem poker and there are three players nevertheless in the casino game at the flop. You get dealt 7 of clubs, eight of diamonds; Amy has 5 of spades, five of clubs and Mike’s side 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 great flop for you – you’ve got the poker nuts! At this point you’ve got a directly – five, six, seven, eight, nine – which can not be defeated by any other mixture of cards.
Now you choose to "slow play" your side and try to draw a wager from somebody that has a great pair who will like this flop, so you simply check. Amy likes the look of her hands now as she has flopped 3 five spades so she makes a bet which is called 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 wager.
The turn card is Ace of hearts. Mike is now smiling to himself as he has just been able to generate the poker nuts having a flush, his 2 hearts in his side plus the three around the table with Ace King superior now give him an unbeatable hand. Mike bets as he knows he has got the nuts but he wants to extract the max cash from the table so he keeps his bet low sufficient to obtain called. You even now think you’re succeeding together with the straight, in fact the Ace has strengthened that opinion as you now reckon Mike possibly has an Ace in his hand and perhaps even two pairs.
He has dropped 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 there are now 4 hearts on view, so anyone with a heart is defeating you with a flush. Mike is happy with all the 5 as he still feels he’s winning with all the top flush, while his opponents may also have created a flush and feel they’re winning. Amy naturally is the real winner as she has just manufactured the nuts with 4 5 spades, her 4 of the type can only be beaten by a straight flush or a greater 4 of the kind. There aren’t sufficient connected hearts showing on the table to produce a straight flush and there isn’t one more pair showing so it truly is not possible to make 4 of a kind.
Amy wins the pot while you and Mike reflect on what really should have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at one level in the casino game but failed to realise that the poker nuts – as well as your fortunes – in Hold’em can change totally with 1 turn of the card.