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.

Your job is to extract as much money from you opponents nuts or no nuts, no matter what cards you have. There is not one style of play in terms of strategy when it comes to the nuts. Often times poker players will tell you to just check around when you have the nuts. I mean why not? You have the ultimate hand and you should not be pushed out of the hand. Plus you dont want the other opponents to know how strong you are right? No way!

Its not always the right thing to do even if this approach is sometimes right. Making a huge bet and going all in might be the way to go. Its all about the timing and situation with the opponents and the game play at the table.

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.

You know you cannot lose at this point, but there is a good chance that someone may draw out on you. This is an instance that you should protect that hand and make sure that you are protecting that hand. If you see that you do have the nuts, and it cannot ever be beat in this hand, then it maybe wise to check your hand and see what your opponents do.

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.

The last thing that plays a big role in your decision is the amount of people that are in the hand. If there are a few people in the hand, you should be able to let them take the action over. Keep them around so they can better there hands, and still lose to you.

If you have a hand that they can out draw you with then that’s a different story but if now why push them out. I love flopping the nuts, but it totally sucks when you don’t make much money from the event.