Poker Glossary
Set
Three of a kind made with a pocket pair plus one matching board card. Sets are concealed — the board looks harmless while you hold a monster — which is why they win big pots and cause most set-over-set coolers. A pocket pair flops a set about 12% of the time (roughly 7.5-to-1 against), and that occasional jackpot is the entire logic of set-mining small pairs preflop.
At the table
You call preflop with 5♣5♦; the flop comes A♠K♥5♠. Every big ace at the table just connected — and none of them can see what hit you.
House note
See where it ranks →← Full glossary — all 52 termsSets are why pocket pairs call preflop: 7.5-to-1 against, priceless when it lands.
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