The origins of the phrase "poker nuts" are unsure although it can be thought to have been dirived from old slang meaning "delightful point, practice or experience". It is actually a "delightful thing" obviously, because in Holdem the poker nuts is the best feasible hands that it is possible to have at any point in the game.
If you’ve the nuts, you can’t be beaten…at that level in the hand. This will be the essential factor that a great deal of unskilled gamblers fail to take account of, the nuts can move from 1 gambler to yet another as well as your hands which was the nuts previous on can end up being crushed!
The subsequent example must illustrate the fickle nature of the cards in Texas hold’em poker and how your nuts can quickly turn to pulp!
You might be playing a hand of Texas hold’em poker and there are 3 gamblers nevertheless in the casino game at the flop. You receive dealt seven of clubs, 8 of diamonds; Amy has five of spades, five of clubs and Mike’s hand 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 wonderful flop for you – you’ve got the poker nuts! At this level you’ve a directly – 5, 6, 7, 8, nine – which can’t be defeated by any other combination of cards.
Now you choose to "slow play" your hands and try to draw a wager from somebody using a high 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 wager which is named by Mike as he now has a pair of nines having 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 generate the poker nuts with a flush, his 2 hearts in his hands plus the three around the table with Ace King superior now give him an unequalled hand. Mike bets as he knows he has got the nuts except he wants to draw out the maximum cash from the table so he keeps his wager low enough to acquire called. You even now feel you’re succeeding using the straight, in reality the Ace has strengthened that perception as you now think Mike probably has an Ace in his hands and perhaps even 2 pairs.
He has fallen into your trap! Or so you think.
The river is dealt and it is the 5 of hearts. It is a blow to you as you’ll find now four hearts on view, so anyone with a heart is defeating you with a flush. Mike is happy using the five as he still feels he is succeeding with the top flush, although his opponents may well also have produced a flush and believe they’re winning. Amy of course could be the real winner as she has just created the nuts with 4 five-s, her 4 of a sort can only be outdone by a straight flush or a far better 4 of the kind. There aren’t adequate connected hearts showing around the table to generate a straight flush and there is not yet another pair displaying so it is not possible to generate four of a kind.
Amy captures the pot although you and Mike reflect on what really should have been.
Both of you held the poker nuts at 1 point in the game except failed to realise that the poker nuts – as well as your fortunes – in Hold em can change totally with one turn of a card.