Be Alert or Your Poker Nuts Will Get Destroyed!

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The roots of the phrase "poker nuts" are uncertain even though it is thought to have been dirived from old slang which means "delightful issue, practice or experience". It is a "delightful thing" obviously, because in Holdem the poker nuts is the greatest achievable hands that you can have at any stage in the game.

If you might have the nuts, you can not be defeated…at that stage in the hand. This would be the essential factor that lots of unskilled players fail to consider, the nuts can move from 1 player to a different and your hand which was the nuts earlier on can end up being crushed!

The subsequent example need to show the fickle nature of the cards in Hold’em poker and how your nuts can rapidly turn to pulp!

You are wagering a palm of Texas hold’em poker and there are three players nevertheless in the casino game at the flop. You have dealt 5 of clubs, eight of diamonds; Amy has five of spades, five of clubs and Mike’s palm is King, 9 of hearts.

The flop is dealt and the cards are nine of hearts, six of hearts and five of diamonds. This really is a great flop for you – you’ve got the poker nuts! At this stage you’ve got a straight – 5, six, seven, eight, nine – which cannot be beaten by any other combination of cards.

Now you decide to "slow play" your hand and attempt to draw a wager from somebody with a superior pair who will like this flop, so you basically check. Amy likes the look of her palm now as she has flopped three five spades so she makes a wager which is known as by Mike as he now has a pair of 9s having a King kicker. You prefer the way it is 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 produce the poker nuts using a flush, his two hearts in his hand plus the three around the table with Ace King superior now give him an unbeatable hand. Mike wagers as he knows he’s got the nuts but he wants to draw out the max cash from the table so he maintains his bet low adequate to get called. You still think you are winning using the directly, in fact the Ace has increased that opinion as you now reckon Mike probably has an Ace in his hands and maybe even 2 pairs.

He has fallen into your trap! Or so you think.

The river is dealt and it’s the five of hearts. This can be a blow to you as you can find now 4 hearts on view, so anyone which has a heart is beating you using a flush. Mike is happy with the 5 as he still feels he is succeeding with the top flush, whilst his competitors may possibly also have produced a flush and consider they are winning. Amy obviously will be the real winner as she has just made the nuts with 4 5 spades, her 4 of a form can only be outdone by a straight flush or a far better 4 of a kind. There aren’t adequate connected hearts showing on the table to produce a directly flush and there is not an additional pair displaying so it can be not possible to make 4 of a kind.

Amy wins the pot while you and Mike reflect on what need to have been.

Both of you held the poker nuts at 1 point in the game but failed to realise that the poker nuts – as well as your fortunes – in Texas hold’em can change completely with 1 turn of the card.