Poker - Thats The Nuts
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My late grandfather Bill Ferguson was one of the greatest card players I've ever known. He wasn't a high-stakes player but he loved cards and played just about every card game imaginable. He was skilled at every game he played and was as proficient at Poker as he was at Cribbage or Bridge. Besides his love of cards, he loved people and he had an uncanny ability to read people as well as he could read the cards on the table.
Combining these two talents made him a formidable opponent to anyone challenging him to a game of cards. In a cribbage match, he would have his opponent's hand counted for them before half the cards were played. In poker, he could spot a bluff or calculate the pot odds with a quick glance. His "poker face" consisted of a smile on his face and a gleam in his eye. This threw off more opponents trying to read him, as they could never tell what lay beneath that happy exterior. His love of cards spawned some of the metaphors that he used in daily life. One expression in particular that he used to say amused me as a young child. Pop would often see something he liked and say; "Now that's the nuts!" I would laugh but I was confused why he thought something nice was nutty. One day I asked him why he called things he liked nutty.
He looked at me and said, "When you play poker and have a hand that can't be beaten it's called the nuts. So when I say something is the nuts it means it's the best there is." A few years later when he taught me to play poker I finally understood the relevance of that term.
When you are playing Texas Hold'em you should be able to look at the cards on the board and determine "the nuts."
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