You Flopped the Nuts, Now What to do?
You may have sat at a poker table before for many hours making no money and getting no good hands. As you sat there you might have caught yourself daydreaming about flopping the nuts on the next hand. You think about how nice that would be to flop the nuts and then win a bunch of money from everyone at the table. Well, what you may not have thought about is that it takes a skill to be able to abstract money from your opponents stack.
The goal is still to take as much chips from the other players as possible, with any hand even if you don’t have the nuts. Many will say their is not one ultimate strategy to use when you flop the nuts. Some will even say that you should just check when having the nuts allowing others to make a move at the pot. The best hand will not always win but the nuts is different. You don’t want others to know you are super powerful right? Wrong!
While its might be true and the perfect approach at certain times, its not the case all the time so don’t be boxed in one technique. You might want to just move all in and push all your chips into the pot. Its just depends on the players in the pot and how the table has been playing over the last few hands.
Your mind always goes with the positive visualization of how great your hand is when you have the nuts. The hand can still be vulnerable even if you have the nuts. If you believe to have a marginal hand its in your best interest to protect it.
What a great position to be in when yo know you cant loose. Positioning your hand in your best interest is the best move at this point. Checking this powerful hand is often time a great way to extract more chips from other players that believe they are strong.
Your approach is reliant on your opponents and your strategy of play. If you are very aggressive player you should not check here. Others expect you to push the pot, so do it. They are not going to think you have the nuts. They will think its odd if you check in this position if you normally don’t. But, let others bet at you if you know that they are aggressive. But on the other hand if you believe that the player wont take the bait with the trap set you have to do what ever you believe is possible to steal as much money as you can in this situation.
How many players at the table is another large factor as to what decisions you make. If the table is short let other take the power position and then let them so they can try to better their hand. Even if you know they cant.
There is no reason to scare them away from the hand if you believe they cant out draw you. Every poker players dream is to flop the nuts but if you cant extract a lot of chips its worthless.
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