Semantics

Is there an actual difference between trips and a set? I was told that a set is when you have a pocket pair and you hit one on the board and trips are when the board pairs and you have a third.

Are they actually interchangable? Does anyone care?

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Is there an actual difference between trips and a set? I was told that a set is when you have a pocket pair and you hit one on the board and trips are when the board pairs and you have a third.

Are they actually interchangable? Does anyone care?

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I care. What you were told is correct.

[manpower]

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a set is when you have a pocket pair and you hit one on the board and trips are when the board pairs and you have a third.

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This is correct information. It's important to make the distinction between the two because a set is a stonger hand than trips.

Are they often misused? I hear set all the time but almost never trips.

And my favorire... I flopped a set of trips. Heard that one a few times.

[bobbyi]

I don't agree with those saying this is correct. You are right that a set is when you match your pocket pair, but trips does not specifically mean a pair on board that you match. Trips is simply shorthand for "three of kind". It's a poker hand ranking like "full house". The pair-on-board scenario is trips, but when you have a set, that is trips as well.