The roots of the phrase "poker nuts" are unclear even though it’s thought to have come from old jargon meaning "delightful thing, practice or experience". It is actually a "delightful thing" naturally, because in Hold em the poker nuts could be the best feasible hand that you may have at any stage in the game.
If you’ve the nuts, you cannot be defeated…at that level in the hand. This could be the essential factor that lots of inexperienced players fail to take account of, the nuts can move from 1 player to an additional as well as your palm which was the nuts previous on can end up being smashed!
The following example should demonstrate the unpredictable nature of the cards in Hold’em poker and how your nuts can rapidly turn to pulp!
You might be wagering a palm of Texas hold em poker and there are three players even now in the casino game at the flop. You get dealt 5 of clubs, eight of diamonds; Amy has five of spades, 5 of clubs and Mike’s side is King, nine of hearts.
The flop is dealt and the cards are 9 of hearts, six of hearts and five of diamonds. This can be a fantastic flop for you – you have got the poker nuts! At this point you’ve a directly – five, 6, seven, eight, 9 – which cannot be defeated by any other mixture of cards.
Now you determine to "slow play" your hands and attempt to draw a wager from somebody that has a superior pair who will like this flop, so you simply check. Amy likes the look of her hands now as she has flopped 3 5 spades so she makes a bet which is known as by Mike as he now has a pair of nines using a King kicker. You prefer 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 that has a flush, his 2 hearts in his side plus the three around the table with Ace King high now give him an unbeatable hand. Mike bets as he knows he’s got the nuts except he wants to draw out the maximum cash from the table so he maintains his wager low adequate to obtain called. You even now assume you are winning together with the directly, in reality the Ace has heightened that opinion as you now think Mike most likely has an Ace in his hands and maybe even 2 pairs.
He has dropped into your trap! Or so you think.
The river is dealt and it’s the five of hearts. This really is a blow to you as you can find now four hearts on view, so anyone with a heart is defeating you using a flush. Mike is happy together with the five as he nonetheless feels he is succeeding with all the top flush, although his competitors may perhaps also have manufactured a flush and think they are winning. Amy naturally would be the real winner as she has just made the nuts with 4 five spades, her four of a sort can only be defeated by a straight flush or a better 4 of a kind. There aren’t sufficient connected hearts showing around the table to produce a directly flush and there isn’t one more pair displaying so it is impossible to make four of the kind.
Amy wins the pot even though you and Mike reflect on what must have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at 1 stage in the game except failed to realise that the poker nuts – as well as your fortunes – in Texas holdem can change completely with 1 turn of the card.