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The origins of the phrase "poker nuts" are unclear even though it can be thought to have been dirived from old slang meaning "delightful issue, practice or experience". It is a "delightful thing" obviously, because in Texas hold’em the poker nuts is the best possible palm that you may have at any level in the game.

If you’ve got the nuts, you can’t be beaten…at that stage in the hand. This could be the crucial factor that loads of inexperienced gamblers fail to take account of, the nuts can move from one player to one more and your palm which was the nuts previous on can end up being crushed!

The following example ought to illustrate the unpredictable nature of the cards in Hold’em poker and how your nuts can speedily turn to pulp!

You might be wagering a hand of Hold’em poker and there are three players still in the game at the flop. You obtain dealt seven of clubs, eight of diamonds; Amy has five of spades, 5 of clubs and Mike’s side is King, 9 of hearts.

The flop is dealt and the cards are nine of hearts, 6 of hearts and 5 of diamonds. It is a excellent flop for you – you’ve got the poker nuts! At this stage you have a directly – five, 6, seven, eight, 9 – which can not be defeated by any other mixture of cards.

Now you choose to "slow play" your hand and attempt to draw a wager from somebody having a good pair who will like this flop, so you basically check. Amy likes the look of her side now as she has flopped three five-s so she makes a bet which is known as 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 make the poker nuts with a flush, his 2 hearts in his hand plus the three on the table with Ace King good now give him an unequalled hand. Mike bets as he knows he’s got the nuts but he wants to extract the maximum cash from the table so he maintains his wager low sufficient to get called. You nevertheless consider you are winning using the straight, in fact the Ace has strengthened that opinion as you now think Mike probably has an Ace in his palm and maybe even two pairs.

He has dropped into your trap! Or so you believe.

The river is dealt and it’s the 5 of hearts. This is a blow to you as you’ll find now four hearts on view, so anyone which has a heart is beating you using a flush. Mike is happy using the five as he nonetheless feels he’s succeeding with the top flush, even though his competitors may well also have made a flush and consider they are winning. Amy obviously may be the real winner as she has just created the nuts with four 5 spades, her 4 of the variety can only be outdone by a straight flush or a better 4 of the kind. There are not adequate connected hearts displaying around the table to generate a straight flush and there isn’t yet another pair showing so it truly is not possible to generate four of a kind.

Amy wins the pot though you and Mike reflect on what should have been.

Both of you held the poker nuts at 1 stage in the game but failed to realise that the poker nuts – along with your fortunes – in Hold em can change totally with one turn of the card.