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The beginnings of the phrase "poker nuts" are uncertain although it is thought to have been dirived from old jargon meaning "delightful issue, practice or experience". It is a "delightful thing" needless to say, because in Hold em the poker nuts is the greatest possible hands that you can have at any stage in the game.

If you have the nuts, you cannot be outdone…at that point in the hand. This may be the essential factor that a lot of inexperienced players fail to consider, the nuts can move from 1 gambler to an additional along with your hands which was the nuts earlier on can end up being smashed!

The following example must demonstrate the fickle nature of the cards in Texas hold’em poker and how your nuts can quickly turn to pulp!

You are wagering a hand of 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, 5 of clubs and Mike’s hand is King, 9 of hearts.

The flop is dealt and the cards are 9 of hearts, 6 of hearts and 5 of diamonds. It is a good flop for you – you’ve got the poker nuts! At this level you’ve a straight – five, 6, 7, 8, nine – which can not be beaten by any other mixture of cards.

Now you choose to "slow play" your hand and attempt to draw a wager from somebody with a great pair who will like this flop, so you merely check. Amy likes the look of her hand now as she has flopped three 5s so she makes a bet which is known as by Mike as he now has a pair of nines having 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 grinning to himself as he has just managed to produce the poker nuts using a flush, his 2 hearts in his hand plus the three on the table with Ace King superior now give him an unequalled hand. Mike wagers as he knows he has got the nuts except he wants to draw out the maximum cash from the table so he maintains his wager low sufficient to get called. You still believe you are succeeding together with the directly, in fact the Ace has heightened that opinion as you now think Mike probably has an Ace in his palm and maybe even 2 pairs.

He’s dropped into your trap! Or so you think.

The river is dealt and it is the 5 of hearts. This is a blow to you as there are now 4 hearts on view, so anyone that has a heart is defeating you having a flush. Mike is happy with the five as he nonetheless feels he is succeeding together with the top flush, even though his opponents may also have made a flush and consider they are winning. Amy obviously would be the real winner as she has just manufactured the nuts with four 5s, her four of the type can only be defeated by a directly flush or a better four of a kind. There aren’t adequate connected hearts displaying on the table to make a straight flush and there isn’t one more pair showing so it really is not possible to make 4 of the kind.

Amy captures the pot even though you and Mike reflect on what ought to have been.

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