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They say you don't need balls to play the nuts but you certainly need a lot more than a perfect flop to take home a big pot. Defined as 'any source of pleasure' in the Online Etymology Dictionary, by their relative nature, the nuts can also be a source of terrible pain and frustration. Many things can go wrong - from scaring off your opponent to waiting too long for them to catch up. And as if you don't already need good luck to hit the nuts on the flop, they can - and will often - change from flop to river, so it takes even greater luck to get it all in with someone holding the second-best hand and not to find yourself outdrawn by showdown...
In a nutshell, beware of nutcrackers and don't go nuts with the nuts ;)
Sometimes, no amount of Hollywooding and/or slowplaying will get you paid...
...and at other times, the poker gods may play a nutcracker joke with you on the river...
Ideally, your absolute best hand will come across the absolute second-best, resulting in coolers that will chill your opponents to the bone...
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Definition and origin
By definition, 'the nuts' / 'nut hand' refer to the best possible hand in any given situation and can change depending on the board.
According to Wikipedia, "A common and certainly apocryphal folk etymology is that the term originated from the historical poker games in the colonial west of America, where if a player bet everything he possessed, he would place the nuts of his wagon wheels on the table to ensure that, should he lose, he would be unable to flee and would have to make good on the bet. Since it would be expected that a player would only make such a bet when he had the best possible hand, the folk lore says that this is how the best possible hand came to be known as the nuts. It is also rumored that these historical games were played only in the winter, and therefore, the nuts that were placed on the table were 'stone cold', hence coining the term 'stone-cold-nuts'."
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