Posted by Mara | Posted in Poker | Posted on 18-12-2012
The beginnings of the phrase "poker nuts" are uncertain although it truly is thought to have been dirived 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 finest achievable hands that it is possible to have at any stage in the game.
If you’ve the nuts, you can not be beaten…at that level in the hand. This would be the critical factor that lots of unskilled players fail to consider, the nuts can move from one player to a different and your hand which was the nuts earlier on can end up being crushed!
The subsequent example should show the unpredictable nature of the cards in Holdem poker and how your nuts can speedily turn to pulp!
You are playing a palm of Texas hold’em poker and there are three players nonetheless in the casino game at the flop. You get dealt 5 of clubs, eight of diamonds; Amy has five of spades, five of clubs and Mike’s hand is King, nine of hearts.
The flop is dealt and the cards are nine of hearts, six of hearts and five of diamonds. It is a good flop for you – you have got the poker nuts! At this point you might have a straight – 5, 6, 7, eight, 9 – which can’t be beaten by any other combination of cards.
Now you decide to "slow play" your palm and attempt to draw a wager from somebody that has a high pair who will like this flop, so you simply check. Amy likes the look of her palm now as she’s flopped three 5s 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 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 make the poker nuts using a flush, his 2 hearts in his hands 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 except he wants to extract the maximum cash from the table so he maintains his bet low adequate to get called. You nonetheless think you are succeeding using the directly, in reality the Ace has increased that belief as you now reckon Mike most likely has an Ace in his hand and perhaps even two pairs.
He’s fallen into your trap! Or so you believe.
The river is dealt and it’s the five of hearts. It is a blow to you as you’ll find now four hearts on view, so anyone having a heart is defeating you that has a flush. Mike is happy with all the 5 as he nonetheless feels he is winning together with the top flush, although his opponents may also have made a flush and think they are winning. Amy naturally is the real winner as she has just produced the nuts with 4 five spades, her 4 of a sort can only be beaten by a directly flush or a far better 4 of the kind. There aren’t enough connected hearts showing on the table to produce a straight flush and there isn’t an additional pair displaying so it can be not possible to generate four of the kind.
Amy wins the pot even though you and Mike reflect on what really should have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at 1 level in the game except failed to realise that the poker nuts – along with your fortunes – in Hold’em can change entirely with one turn of the card.