The beginnings of the phrase "poker nuts" are uncertain although it truly is thought to have been dirived from old slang which means "delightful issue, practice or experience". It is often a "delightful thing" of course, because in Texas hold’em the poker nuts may be the very best feasible hand that you may have at any point in the game.
If you’ve the nuts, you can not be beaten…at that level in the hand. This will be the essential factor that plenty of inexperienced players fail to take account of, the nuts can move from one gambler to a different and your hands which was the nuts earlier on can end up being smashed!
The subsequent example should show the fickle nature of the cards in Hold em poker and how your nuts can speedily turn to pulp!
You might be playing a hand of Texas holdem poker and there are three players nonetheless in the game at the flop. You get dealt 5 of clubs, eight of diamonds; Amy has five of spades, 5 of clubs and Mike’s hand is King, nine of hearts.
The flop is dealt and the cards are nine of hearts, 6 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 a directly – 5, six, seven, eight, 9 – which cannot be beaten by any other mixture of cards.
Now you decide to "slow play" your palm and try to draw a wager from somebody using a great pair who will like this flop, so you basically check. Amy likes the look of her palm now as she’s flopped three five-s so she makes a bet which is named by Mike as he now has a pair of nines that has 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 make the poker nuts with a flush, his two hearts in his palm plus the 3 around the table with Ace King good now give him an unbeatable hand. Mike bets as he knows he’s got the nuts except he wants to extract the max cash from the table so he keeps his bet low adequate to obtain called. You nonetheless think you are succeeding together with the directly, in reality the Ace has increased that opinion as you now reckon Mike most likely has an Ace in his side and perhaps even 2 pairs.
He has fallen into your trap! Or so you think.
The river is dealt and it is the five of hearts. This really is a blow to you as you can find now four hearts on view, so anyone which has a heart is defeating you having a flush. Mike is happy using the five as he nonetheless feels he’s winning with the top flush, while his opponents may perhaps also have made a flush and feel they’re winning. Amy naturally would be the real winner as she has just produced the nuts with four five spades, her 4 of a variety can only be defeated by a directly flush or a much better four of the kind. There are not sufficient connected hearts showing around the table to generate a directly flush and there is not yet another pair displaying so it really is impossible to generate four of a kind.
Amy wins the pot though you and Mike reflect on what ought to have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at one level in the game but failed to realise that the poker nuts – and your fortunes – in Hold’em can change entirely with one turn of the card.