On the other hand if you have the “Stone cold nuts”, you have a hand that couldn’t possibly be beaten at all. And you probably need to see a doctor.
I had a pocket pair and flopped the nuts, then when a pair of queens came I had a bad beat and watched a guy get sucked out.
I keep waiting to hear how someone flopped the nuts when the woman next to him had a great pair.
Sorry.
I’ll see myself out…
You got two jacks. You got a half fizzbin already!
No, I don’t think that is the way it is normally used.
“The nuts” is the best possible hand given what is common knowledge. In Hold-Em that means the community cards currently dealt. If the flop is 4-4-5 and you have pocket 4s you have the nuts.
“Stone cold nuts” could also include any possible future cards. So pocket 4s is not the stone-cold nuts, as pocket 5s could outdraw you, as could any other pocket pair if the turn and river both hit, and possible straight flushes.
Other games with community cards, or cards dealt face up, can also have “the nuts” if you can beat any other possible hand available to your opponents. Things like 7-card stud can have “the nuts” if you know nobody can make a better hand with their face-up cards no matter what they have in the hole.
I always thought that ‘flopping the nuts’ meant that you had a hand that couldn’t be beat, no matter what cards are turned up on the turn and the river.
So if I have A-K of hearts, and the flop is 10-J-Q of hearts, I have a royal flush which cannot be beaten (or tied), regardless of the other two community cards. In this case, I have flopped the nuts.
Likewise, if I have A-A, and the flop is A-A-x, with 3 suits represented in the flop, my four aces will beat any other possible hand on that deal. Once again, I have flopped the nuts.
Regardless of what others have said in this thread, in these two cases flopping the nuts is a damn good feeling.
Well you’ve got to go big if you flop the nuts. And if you go big, hopefully others will see you and also go big and raise you.
(Back to serious) I thought the nuts just meant the best hand with current community cards but now I’m not sure.
…and if you’re really lucky, you’ll have many hands flopping the nuts
(Ok I’ll stop now)
The nuts is in fact the best possible hand. It is a hand that cannot lose. (It could tie.)
Flopping the absolute nuts… a hand that cannot be beaten no matter what the next two cards are… is very unusual. You can only be totally assured of knowing your flopped hand cannot possibly be beaten if you flop the highest possible straight flush. Any other hand, even quad aces, could in theory lose to a better hand if the right cards fall. I’ve played poker a long time and remember this happening to me once.
That’s correct; you will sometime hear a totally unbeatable hand referred to with additional modifiers like “the immortal nuts” or “the absolute nuts” but it rarely occurs prior to the river card, anyway.