# Have you ever flopped the nuts? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** board-card-word-game\ **Created:** [February 23, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704 "2025-02-23T19:13:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/1 "2025-02-23T19:13:26Z")
Because it’s quite attractive if you have… I have… a few times. It’s always a really pleasurable feeling. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/4 "2025-02-23T19:29:58Z")
Once I was playing with my wife and she gave me a backdoor flush. That felt good. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/5 "2025-02-23T19:44:45Z")
When you rotate your car’s tires, you’re to rotate the lugnuts as well to maintain balance and even wear. Certainly I do that regularly and I hope you do as well. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/6 "2025-02-23T19:49:02Z")
I hate it when I’m just one jack off from flopping the nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/7 "2025-02-23T19:51:18Z")
I have, a few times. But at least twice someone blasted off into my nuts only to river me. Blasting off into my nuts isn’t halfway as fun as flopping the nuts. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/8 "2025-02-23T19:57:08Z")
Have you ever _sat_ on your nuts? They don’t teach you about that in Health class. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/9 "2025-02-23T20:00:07Z")
I don’t know what exactly flopping means in the OP’s context, but I generally highly dislike any moving sensation in the balls, even when jogging and feeling them going up and down or any sort of swaying movement. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/10 "2025-02-23T20:01:54Z")
I do believe with only seven replies so far, this thread has made me laugh the hardest so far in my history of being here on the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/11 "2025-02-23T20:05:14Z")
For anyone who needs to know what I presume is the real [reference](https://poker.betmgm.com/en/blog/poker-guides/beginners-guide-to-flopping-the-nuts-in-poker/) … Yeah I googled it! And “backdoor flush” … Never have myself. But ignorance reduced today! ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/12 "2025-02-23T20:22:12Z")
What are you all insinuating?! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/13 "2025-02-23T20:36:58Z")
Everything I know about sitting on one’s nuts I learned from Mr. Belvedere. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/14 "2025-02-23T21:14:40Z")
(Overheard at dinner party): “Professor, will you pass the nuts?” “Probably, but I really should fail them. Their grades are horrible.” ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/15 "2025-02-23T21:18:21Z")
Flopping them probably requires a crap-ton more sack than I realistically have. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/16 "2025-02-23T21:28:15Z")
I flopped a Brunson once. And I stayed with it! Tripler One of my smartest moves ever. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/17 "2025-02-23T21:36:03Z")
I used to flop my pecans before I started wearing dentures. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/18 "2025-02-23T23:21:42Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I have, a few times. But at least twice someone blasted off into my nuts only to river me. Then it wasn’t the nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/19 "2025-02-23T23:25:18Z")
That’s nuts. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/20 "2025-02-24T00:45:42Z")
Okay now a real question. It’s the nuts at that time in the game but can no longer be the nuts as more community cards are dealt … right? So the river can change it up … yes? Ignorance asking. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/21 "2025-02-24T00:51:21Z")
I could be wrong, so don’t take my answer as truth or fact, but I always thought that THE NUTS was the BEST POSSIBLE HAND a person could make with the hand they have. Like, you cannot get any better than what is on the board. Note, it is not the best possible hand ANYONE could make, because you don’t know what other players have, therefore when you say “oh, I just flopped the nuts”… it cannot (by logic) include other peoples’ hands, just yours. So yes, a turn and river can make hands better than yours that other players have…but not you, because the best hand you could have gotten were already in the first three cards shown. But I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704/22 "2025-02-24T01:36:04Z")
Well I’m only going from what I googled and linked to: > You might start with the nuts and lose your grip as other cards come into play. Careful and continuous evaluation of your hand’s standing against potential hands held by your rivals is always of utmost importance. So if I got it right, by the river your nuts could be blasted … and you’re a sad sack after all. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704.md?page=2)