The term applies mostly to community card poker games where the individual holding the strongest possible hand, with the given board of community cards, is capable of knowing that they have the nut hand. The second-nut hand or third-nut hand (and so on) may refer to the second and third best possible hands. In poker, the nut hand (or the nuts) is the strongest possible hand in a given situation. JSTOR ( July 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. Most of the time, when we hit a flush, our opponent will not have a flush.The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline.

This is also the reason that my winrate with AKs is still a lot higher than with AJs. In all the other scenarios, it is better to have AK than AQ or lower, as our kicker is very valuable. The chance to hit a flush is already low, and it happens even less often that someone has second nut flush. And nobody can beat me anyway if I hold the A high flush in my hand. Some players might be folding lower flushes, but almost no one folds 2nd nut K high flush. That way, I can know that someone else might be holding a 2nd nut flush ( K high flush) as I don’t hold the K myself. In such a scenario, I would rather have any other ace-high flush but the AK high flush. There is one situation where having AKs is not optimal. One exception – When the bigger cards are not always better Please note, due to the little chance of having a straight flush of 0.0014%, I just assume that Ace-high flush is the nut flush, and an opponent doesn’t have a straight flush, which would beat our ace-high flush.

Texas holdem flush on the table