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. When it comes to the best known modern poker variation, Texas Hold’em, the rules are quite simple and easy to learn. For more information about poker hand rankings visit this page. Hand Description Three of one card and two non-paired cards. Most games use the standard poker hand rankings: from high card as the lowest possible hand to the royal flush as the best hand one can have. 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. 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.
