Adding a Tc on the turn to the previous example's flop changes
the nuts significantly. With this new board the nuts are now
a Jack-High Straight Flush which a player can make if they
were holding hole cards of Jc 9c:
The next best hand, or
second-nuts, would be a Ten-high Straight Flush which can be
made with the 9c 6c:
One interesting thing to note about this example is that if a player
is holding the 9c 6c, from their perspective they are holding
the nuts since they know that when they have the 9c no other
player can make the Jack-high Straight Flush.
Aside from these two straight flush hands, the next strongest
hands would be flushes starting with the Ace-high flush. After
the flushes, players can have straights as well. Any J9 hole
card combination other than the Jc 9c makes a player a
Queen-high straight. Players can make Ten-high straights as
well with any 96 hole card combination other than 9c 6c.
Following all these other hands, is the previous stage's nut
hand, a Three of a Kind, Queens, which is the highest
Three of a Kind hand that can be made on this board.
Adding the 8s on the river to example 2's board adds to the
complexity of the hand. The nuts would still be the
Jack-high Straight Flush, and the second-nuts would still be
the Ten-high Straight Flush. However, the ranking of hands
after these two hands changes because of the fact that the
community cards now contain a paired of rank (i.e. the two 8's).
The second 8 on the river makes it possible for a player to have
Four of a Kind, Eights if they held pocket 8's, which would
be a good enough hand to make the third-nuts. The fourth-nuts
would be a Full House, Queens Full of Eights, if a player held
pocket Queens. There are many other full house possibilities as
well, and then these hands would be followed by various flushes,
and then various straights.