08.09
Be Attentive or Your Poker Nuts Might Get Destroyed!
The roots of the phrase "poker nuts" are unclear even though it can be thought to have been dirived from old jargon which means "delightful point, practice or experience". It is really a "delightful thing" needless to say, because in Texas holdem the poker nuts could be the greatest possible palm that you may have at any point in the game.
If you’ve got the nuts, you can’t be defeated…at that level in the hand. This may be the crucial factor that plenty of inexperienced players fail to consider, the nuts can move from one gambler to one more and your palm which was the nuts previous on can end up being smashed!
The subsequent example really should illustrate the fickle nature of the cards in Texas hold em poker and how your nuts can speedily turn to pulp!
You might be betting a hands of Texas hold’em poker and there are three gamblers still in the casino game at the flop. You have dealt 7 of clubs, 8 of diamonds; Amy has 5 of spades, five of clubs and Mike’s hand is King, nine of hearts.
The flop is dealt and the cards are 9 of hearts, 6 of hearts and 5 of diamonds. This is a great flop for you – you have got the poker nuts! At this point you’ve got a straight – 5, 6, seven, eight, nine – which can’t be beaten by any other mixture of cards.
Now you determine to "slow play" your hands and try to draw a bet from somebody which has a great pair who will like this flop, so you merely check. Amy likes the look of her side now as she’s flopped three five-s so she makes a bet which is called by Mike as he now has a pair of 9s having a King kicker. You like the way it is going so you call the wager.
The turn card is Ace of hearts. Mike is now grinning to himself as he has just been able to make the poker nuts with a flush, his two hearts in his hands plus the 3 on the table with Ace King good now give him an unequalled hand. Mike wagers as he knows he has got the nuts except he wants to extract the maximum cash from the table so he maintains his bet low adequate to get called. You nevertheless believe you’re succeeding together with the directly, in reality the Ace has strengthened that belief as you now reckon Mike most likely has an Ace in his palm and maybe even two 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 will find now four hearts on view, so anyone that has a heart is beating you that has a flush. Mike is happy using the five as he nevertheless feels he is winning with the top flush, although his competitors may also have manufactured a flush and think they are winning. Amy of course is the real winner as she has just produced the nuts with four five-s, her 4 of a sort can only be defeated by a directly flush or a far better four of a kind. There aren’t adequate connected hearts displaying around the table to produce a straight flush and there is not yet another pair displaying so it is not possible to make 4 of the kind.
Amy wins the pot though you and Mike reflect on what ought 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 entirely with 1 turn of a card.
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