The beginnings of the phrase "poker nuts" are unclear even though it’s thought to have come from old slang which means "delightful thing, practice or experience". It can be a "delightful thing" obviously, because in Hold’em the poker nuts is the best achievable side that you may have at any level in the game.
If you’ve got the nuts, you cannot be beaten…at that level in the hand. This may be the essential factor that a lot of inexperienced gamblers fail to consider, the nuts can move from 1 player to another along with your palm which was the nuts earlier on can end up being crushed!
The subsequent example really should show the unpredictable nature of the cards in Holdem poker and how your nuts can quickly turn to pulp!
You’re wagering a hand of Holdem poker and there are three players still in the game at the flop. You obtain dealt 5 of clubs, 8 of diamonds; Amy has 5 of spades, 5 of clubs and Mike’s hand is King, nine of hearts.
The flop is dealt and the cards are 9 of hearts, six of hearts and 5 of diamonds. This can be a excellent flop for you – you have got the poker nuts! At this stage you’ve a straight – 5, 6, seven, eight, 9 – which can not be beaten by any other combination of cards.
Now you choose to "slow play" your side and try to draw a bet from somebody having a good pair who will like this flop, so you simply check. Amy likes the look of her palm now as she’s flopped three five spades so she makes a wager which is called by Mike as he now has a pair of 9s using a King kicker. You like the way it is 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 with a flush, his two hearts in his hands plus the 3 on 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 draw out the maximum cash from the table so he maintains his wager low adequate to obtain called. You still feel you are succeeding with the straight, in reality the Ace has strengthened that opinion as you now reckon Mike most likely has an Ace in his hands and perhaps even 2 pairs.
He has fallen into your trap! Or so you believe.
The river is dealt and it is the 5 of hearts. This can be a blow to you as you will discover now four hearts on view, so anyone having a heart is beating you that has a flush. Mike is happy with all the 5 as he nonetheless feels he is succeeding with the top flush, even though his competitors may well also have manufactured a flush and believe they are winning. Amy obviously would be the real winner as she has just created the nuts with four 5 spades, her four of the variety can only be beaten by a directly flush or a far better four of a kind. There are not enough connected hearts showing on the table to make a straight flush and there isn’t an additional pair displaying so it really is not possible to produce four of the kind.
Amy wins the pot although you and Mike reflect on what ought to have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at one point in the casino game except failed to realise that the poker nuts – along with your fortunes – in Hold em can change totally with 1 turn of a card.