Origin of 'nuts'

[josie_wales]

Anyone know the origin of the term 'nuts'?

Just got to wondering /images/graemlins/confused.gif

Have a nice day all /images/graemlins/smile.gif

JW

[Baulucky]

I think is something like having your opponent by the 'nuts' or something like that.

[Gamblor]

Holding the best hand is almost as pleasurable as holding my nuts.

[csuf_gambler]

i would think having the best hand would be coincided with having the biggest nutz. therefore the term "nutz" was coined aas having the best hand.

when im at a BM casino, and i have da nutz, i will often say "cock dizzle nutz"

[JTG51]

I don't know how reliable it is, but this is the story I've heard:

In the old American West (apparently they didn't play table stakes) when someone had such a strong hand that they were willing to bet everything they had on it, they would go outside to their wagon, take the nuts off of the wheels, and bet them symbolizing that they were betting the wagon and everything in it.

[josie_wales]

Thanks JTG...Even if not 'correct' that will be what I think of it as until I hear otherwise /images/graemlins/wink.gif

Anyone else got an idea?

JW

[Wake up CALL]

I have heard that interesting story before as well. I did some research and found that the old wagon wheels had no nuts. Here (http://www.wildwooddesigns.com/store/search/wheel_construction_plan.html) is a link to a pic and if you wish you may purchase the construction plans as well (sans nuts). Here is a scale model stagecoach (http://www.scalemodelindex.com/supplies-o.htm) reproduced in meticulous detail with no wheel nuts.

Unfortunally I'm not sure when it started just that it wasn't from nuts off of stagecoaches or wagons in the old west.

[47outs]

[OJSimpson]

I believe the term is actually tied to the term "cracked hand", as in "my aces got cracked." If you have a great hand that is beaten, it is said to be cracked. Conversely, if you have a hand that cannot be beaten, it is said to be a nut that cannot be cracked, or, "the nuts". Its all about the crackability of a hand.

Good nuts can't be cracked, like the crappy kind your parents use to throw in your stockings on Christmas morning. Remember those teeth chippers...

[Gamblor]

[harboral]

I was told a story as a kid about a fellow in El Paso that played Kansas City low-ball and Hold'em in the 1930's and '40's. He was called KC Bob and it was rumored he was as tight as a nun's c...

Anyway, road gamblers have had a long-standing superstition about eating peanuts at the poker table, and even though they were always available at the bar, you stayed away from them. So, the story goes that ol' KC makes an all-in bet and when it appears the other player in the hand is not going to call, a third player at the table says "Yeah, don't call him, he's got the nuts".

Well, the player still in the hand hasn't folded yet, and is hemmin' and hawin', and KC says "That's right, and you ain't got the nuts to call". (kid gets brave and calls, KC shows him what we now call "the nuts")

True or not? Heard it as a little kid almost 40 years ago.
AL

[GrannyMae]

i think this collusion team from Bergen came up with it during an ACR freeroll.

i _could_ be wrong, but i doubt it.



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[csuf_gambler]

wtf?!?!