If the player only uses one hole card and two community cards, the hand is known as “trips”. Note that if the Three of a Kind is made with a pocket pair and one community card, it is called a “set”. Hand Description One pairing of the same card. Hand Description Two different pairings or sets of the same card in one hand. Hand Description Three of one card and two non-paired cards. Hand Description Five cards in numerical order, but not of the same suit.
Hand Description Five cards, all in one suit, but not in numerical order. Hand Description A pair plus three of a kind in the same hand. Hand Description The same card in each of the four suits. In fact, in a 9-handed game, you should only be raising around 15 of your hands from UTG, meaning that 85 of the hands you’re dealt in that position will be folded Even if you’re in a later position, such as the CO, you should still be folding over 65 of your hands, and that’s if the action folds to you. Hand Description Five cards in a row, all in the same suit.
Hand Description 10, Jack, Queen, King, Ace all in the same suit. If two or more players have Three of a Kind in the same hand, they are ranked based on the denomination of the three matching cards, with three Aces representing the strongest Three of a Kind poker hand. It is under a Straight and above Two Pairs. Three of a Kind is in the bottom half of all poker hand rankings.
